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Hebrew verb · H2710

חָקַק

chaqaqkhaw-kak'

to decree

19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: châqaq

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2710is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2710

properly, to hack, i.e. engrave (Judges 5:14, to be a scribe simply); by implication, to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) or (gen.) prescribe

The King James renders it: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

chaqaq is rendered "to decree". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

Genesis 49:10וּמְחֹקֵ֖ק

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's nineteen uses are in Isaiah.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • commander's staff my2
  • when marked out he2
  • a commander1
  • and a ruler's staff1
  • and you will inscribe1
  • commander our1
  • commanders1
  • cutting1
  • for commanders of1
  • I have inscribed you1
  • inscribe it1
  • inscribed1

and 5 more, 19 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

חָקַרchaqarto searchUses27

The words it stands beside

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בְּח֥וּקוֹ1
  • בְּ֝חוּק֗וֹ1
  • בִּמְחֹקֵ֖ק1
  • הַחֹֽקְקִ֖ים1
  • וְחַקּוֹתָ֥1
  • וְיֻחָֽקוּ׃1
  • וּמְחֹקֵ֖ק1
  • חֻקָּ֑הּ1
  • חֹקְקִ֥י1
  • חֲקֻקִ֖ים1
  • חַקֹּתִ֑יךְ1
  • יְחֹ֣קְקוּ1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Vqcc/Sp3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVprmsc/Sp1bs
  • HC/VHu3mp1HC/VHu3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vprmsa
  • Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HR/Vprmsa
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Vqrmpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqrmpa
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpi3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural1HVprmpa
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HVprmsc/Sp1bp

Genesis

one use
  • The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

    Genesis 49:10

    • וּמְחֹקֵ֖קumechokekconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: and a ruler's staff

Numbers

one use
  • The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

    Numbers 21:18

    • בִּמְחֹקֵ֖קbimchokekpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: with a ruler's staff

Deuteronomy

one use
  • He chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice and His ordinances for Israel.”

    Deuteronomy 33:21

    • מְחֹקֵ֖קmechokekverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: a commander

Judges

two uses
  • My heart is with the princes of Israel, with the volunteers among the people. Bless the LORD!

    Judges 5:9

    • לְחוֹקְקֵ֣יlechokeipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for commanders of
  • Some came from Ephraim, with their roots in Amalek; Benjamin came with your people after you. The commanders came down from Machir, the bearers of the marshal’s staff from Zebulun.

    Judges 5:14

    • מְחֹ֣קְקִ֔יםmechokekimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: commanders

Job

one use
  • I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

    Job 19:23

    • וְיֻחָֽקוּ׃veyuchakuHC/VHu3mptagged: so they may be inscribed

Psalms

two uses
  • Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

    Psalms 60:7

    • מְחֹֽקְקִי׃mechokekiverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: commander's staff my
  • Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

    Psalms 108:8

    • מְחֹקְקִֽי׃mechokekiverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: commander's staff my

Proverbs

four uses
  • By me kings reign, and rulers enact just laws;

    Proverbs 8:15

    • יְחֹ֣קְקוּyechokekuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they enact
  • I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

    Proverbs 8:27

    • בְּח֥וּקוֹbechukovpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when marked out he
  • when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

    Proverbs 8:29

    • בְּ֝חוּק֗וֹbechukopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when marked out he
  • lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.

    Proverbs 31:5

    • מְחֻקָּ֑קmechukakverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: is decreed

Isaiah

five uses
  • Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

    Isaiah 10:1

    • הַחֹֽקְקִ֖יםhachokekimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those decree
  • What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

    Isaiah 22:16

    • חֹקְקִ֥יchokekiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cutting
  • Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.

    Isaiah 30:8

    • חֻקָּ֑הּchukahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: inscribe it
  • For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

    Isaiah 33:22

    • מְחֹקְקֵ֑נוּmechokekenuverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: commander our
  • Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

    Isaiah 49:16

    • חַקֹּתִ֑יךְchakotikhverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: I have inscribed you

Ezekiel

two uses
  • “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

    Ezekiel 4:1

    • וְחַקּוֹתָ֥vechakotaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will inscribe
  • But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

    Ezekiel 23:14

    • חֲקֻקִ֖יםchakukimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: inscribed

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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