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# חָקַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2710

**cut in** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cut in [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2710/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָקַק: vb. Poʿel Poʿel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2710/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut in, inscribe, decree (NH id., Aramaic חֲקַק, Zinj. חקק; Ph. id. Pt. Hiph.; Arabic حَقَّ be just, right, obligatory, also make or decide to be just, etc.; حَقٌّ justness, truth, necessity, obligation; Ethiopic ሕቅ: adj. moderate, sufficient; cf. also חקה)— וְחַקּוֹתָ֫ Ez 4:1; sf. חַקֹּתִיךְ Is 49:16; Inf. sf. בְּחֻקּוֹ Pr 8:27; בְּחוּקוֹ Pr 8:29 (assim. to בְּשׂוּמוֹ); Imv. חֻקָּהּ Is 30:8; Pt. חֹקְקִי Is 22:16 (archaic ending Ges§ 90. 3a) pl. חֹקְקִים Is 10:1; cstr. חוֹקְקֵי Ju 5:9 (poss. Poʿel = מחוקקי with מְ omitted, v. Ges§ 52 (2), note 6); Pt. pass. pl. חֲקֻקִֿים Ez 23:14 (Co חקוקים);— cut in, with בְּ, Is 22:16, of a dwelling-place = tomb, in a rock. cut in or on, upon, engrave, inscribe, c. על on roll of a book Is 30:8; representation of city on brick (as in Babylonia) Ez 4:1; images on a wall Ez 23:14; fig. of Zion’s walls on palms of י׳ Is 49:16. trace, mark out, a circle, c. על over the face of deep Pr 8:27; c. acc., foundations of earth v 29. of a law, engrave, inscribe (on a tablet), fig. for enact, decree חקקים חקקי און Is 10:1 (‖ כתב עמל); חוֹקְקֵי ישׂראל poet. = commanders (v. Poʿel) Ju 5:9 (‖ מחקקים) v 14). Poʿel Impf. יְחוֹקְקוּ Pr 8:15; Pt. מְחֹקֵק Gn 49:10; Nu 21:18; Dt 33:21; sf. מְחֹקְקִי ψ 60:9; 108:9; מְחֹקְקֵנוּ Is 33:22; pl. מְחֹקְקִים Ju 5:14;—inscribe (as a law), enact (poet.): c. acc. צֶדֶק Pr 8:15 elsewhere pt. prescriber of laws, hence (as sovereign authority in a warlike clan) commander Dt 33:21 (of warlike tribe of Gad), Ju 5:14; Is 33:22 (of י׳; ‖ שֹׁפְטֵנוּ, מַלְכֵּנוּ). commander’s staff Gn 49:10 (‖ שֵׁבֶט), Nu 21:18 (both poet.), ψ 60:9 = 108:9. Pt. מְחֻקָּק that which is decreed Pr 31:5 (late). Impf. יֻחָ֑קֿוּ Jb 19:23 inscribed in (בְּ) a book.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] my (2); a ruler's staff (2); he (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 8:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.15/#tree)

בִּ֭י מְלָכִ֣ים יִמְלֹ֑כוּ וְ֝רוֹזְנִ֗ים יְחֹ֣קְקוּ צֶֽדֶק׃

*Word for word:* by me kings they.reign and rulers they.enact righteousness

*JPS 1917:* By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

[Isaiah 10:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.1/#tree)

ה֥וֹי הַחֹֽקְקִ֖ים חִקְקֵי־אָ֑וֶן וּֽמְכַתְּבִ֥ים עָמָ֖ל כִּתֵּֽבוּ׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[those who\].decree decrees of.wickedness and writers \[who\].trouble they.wrote

*JPS 1917:* Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write iniquity;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2710.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2710/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).