חָקַק
châqaq · khaw-kak'
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
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
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
- 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
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › what comes behind, the returning cycle › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To separate and protect of what comes behind, the returning cycle of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָקַק above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- is my lawgiver2 · 11%
- nor a lawgiver1 · 5%
- it, by the direction of the lawgiver1 · 5%
- of the lawgiver1 · 5%
- is toward the governors1 · 5%
- governors1 · 5%
- they were printed1 · 5%
- decree1 · 5%
- i was there: when he set1 · 5%
- when he appointed1 · 5%
- the law1 · 5%
- unto them that decree1 · 5%
- and that graveth1 · 5%
- and note1 · 5%
- is our lawgiver1 · 5%
- behold, i have graven1 · 5%
- thee, and pourtray1 · 5%
- pourtrayed1 · 5%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.