# חָקַק (chaqaq)

Israeli respelling: cha-qaq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2710. 19 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chaqaq-h2710

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 49:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/10) — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the p…
- [Numbers 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/18) — The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderne…
- [Deuteronomy 33:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/21) — And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the p…
- [Judges 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/9) — My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
- [Judges 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/14) — Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out…
- [Job 19:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/23) — Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
- [Psalms 60:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/60/7) — Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
- [Psalms 108:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/108/8) — Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
- [Proverbs 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/15) — By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
- [Proverbs 8:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/27) — When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
- [Proverbs 8:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/29) — When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
- [Proverbs 31:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/5) — Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
- [Isaiah 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/1) — Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
- [Isaiah 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/16) — What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high…
- [Isaiah 30:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/8) — Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
- [Isaiah 33:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/22) — For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
- [Isaiah 49:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/16) — Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
- [Ezekiel 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/1) — Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
- [Ezekiel 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/14) — And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,