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Strong's #2710 - חָקַק
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- to cut out, decree, inscribe, set, engrave, portray, govern
- (Qal)
- to cut in
- to cut in or on, cut upon, engrave, inscribe
- to trace, mark out
- to engrave, inscribe (of a law)
- (Poel)
- to inscribe, enact, decree
- one who decrees, lawgiver (participle)
- (Pual) something decreed, the law (participle)
- (Hophal) to be inscribed
- (Qal)
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1180) qh (ההק HhQ) AC: Inscribe CO: ? AB: Custom: The pictograph h is a picture of a wall representing a separation. The q is a picture of the sun at the horizon representing the idea of "coming together". Combined these mean "separation and coming together". A custom brings a people separated together.
B) qqh (ההקק HhQQ) AC: Inscribe CO: ? AB: Custom: The appointment of a specific time, function or duty. A custom as something that is appointed.
V) qqh (ההקק HhQQ) - Inscribe: To write a decree or custom. KJV (19): (vf: Paal, Hophal, Pual, Participle) lawgiver, governor, decree, grave, portray, law, printed, set, note, appoint - Strongs: H2710 (חָקַק)
Nm) qqh (ההקק HhQQ) - Custom: KJV (2): thought, decree - Strongs: H2711 (חֵקֶק)
H) eqh (ההקה HhQH) AC: Inscribe CO: ? AB: ?: To write a decree or custom.
V) eqh (ההקה HhQH) - Inscribe: KJV (4): (vf: Hitpael, Pual, Participle) portray, carve, print - Strongs: H2707 (חָקָה)
J) qfh (ההוק HhWQ) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Custom: The appointment of a specific time, function or duty. A custom as something that is appointed.
Nm) qfh (ההוק HhWQ) - Custom: KJV (127): statute, ordinance, decree, due, law, portion, bounds, custom, appointed, commandment - Strongs: H2706 (חֹק)
Nf1) eqfh (ההוקה HhWQH) - Custom: KJV (104): statute, ordinance, custom, appointed, manners, rites - Strongs: H2708 (חֻקָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qalוְחַקּוֺתָ֫ Ezekiel 4:1; suffix חַקֹּתִיךְ Isaiah 49:16; Infinitive suffix בְּחֻקּוֺ Proverbs 8:27; בְּחוּקוֺ Proverbs 8:29 (assimilated to בְּשׂוּמוֺ); חֻקָּהּ Isaiah 30:8; Participle חֹקְקִי Isaiah 22:16 (archaic case ending Ges§ 90. 3 a); plural חֹקְקִים Isaiah 10:1; construct חוֺקְקֵי Judges 5:9 (possibly Po`el = מחוקקי with מְ omitted, see Ges§ 52 (2), note 6); Participle Pass. plural חֲקֻקִֿים Ezekiel 23:14 (Co חקוקים); —
1 cut in, with בְּ, Isaiah 22:16, of a dwelling-place = tomb, in a rock.
2 cut in or on, upon, engrave, inscribe, with על on roll of a book Isaiah 30:8; representation of city on brick (as in Babylonia) Ezekiel 4:1; images on a wall Ezekiel 23:14; figurative of Zion's walls on palms of ׳י Isaiah 49:16.
3 trace, mark out, a circle, with על over the face of deep Proverbs 8:27; with accusative, foundations of earth Proverbs 8:29.
4 of a law, engrave, inscribe (on a tablet), figurative for enact, decree חקקים חקקי און Isaiah 10:1 ("" כתב עמל); חוֺקקֵי ישׂראל poetic = commanders (see Po`el) Judges 5:9 ("" מחקקים Judges 5:14).
Po`el Imperfect יְחוֺקְקוּ Proverbs 8:15; Participle מְחֹקֵק Genesis 49:10; Numbers 21:18; Deuteronomy 33:21; suffix מְחֹקְקִי Psalm 60:9; Psalm 108:9; מְחֹקְקֵנוּ Isaiah 33:22; plural מְחֹקְקִים Judges 5:14; — inscribe (as a law), enact (poetry): with accusative צֶדֶק Proverbs 8:15 elsewhere participle
a. prescriber of laws, hence (as sovereign authority in a warlike clan) commander Deuteronomy 33:21 (of warlike tribe of Gad), Judges 5:14; Isaiah 33:22 (of ׳י; "" שֹׁפְטֵנוּ, מַלְכֵּנוּ).
b. commander's staff Genesis 49:10 ("" שֵׁבֶט), Numbers 21:18 (both poetry), Psalm 60:9 = Psalm 108:9.
Pu`al Participle מְחֻקָּק that which is decreed Proverbs 31:5 (late).
Hoph`al Imperfect יֻחָ֑קֿוּ Job 19:23 inscribed in (בְּ) a book.
חָקַק prop. to cut, to cut into, to hack, hauen, einhauen; compare the kindred roots, all of which are onomatopoetic, חָקָה, هَقَّ and هقهق to strike with a sword, hauen, then to stamp violently; also, to encounter violently; هَكَّ and هكهك id.; hacken, to hack. In passing, we may observe that especially in verbs geminate in the middle radical, there are many which are imitations of sound, and hence are common to many. languages; as לָקַק lecken [to lick], דָּבַב, טָפַף, tappen, הָלַל) hallen, צָלַל tinnio, fchallen, דָּקַק to beat, to beat to powder, etc.; and in the geminate forms, גַּרְגַּר gargarizavit, צִפְצֵף pipivit, צלצל tintinnum edidit, etc. Specially
(1) to carve out a sepulchre, in a rock, Isaiah 22:16 to engrave letters and figures on a tablet, Isaiah 30:8; Ezekiel 4:1.
(2) i.q. γράφειν, to delineate, to paint, Isaiah 49:16; Ezekiel 23:14.
(3) to decree, to ordain (verbs of inscribing and writing are used in the sense of decreeing, since it is the work of a legislator to write or inscribe his laws), Isaiah 10:1 to determine, to appoint, to describe, Proverbs 8:27, 29. Part. חֹקֵק poet. for שֹׂפֵט a judge, Judges 5:9.
Pual part. מְחֻקָּק what is decreed, Proverbs 31:5.
Hophal, fut. יֻחָקוּ for יֻחָקּוּ (with the omission of Dag. forte) to engrave, to inscribe, Job 19:23.
Poel, i.q. Kal No. 3, to decree, Proverbs 8:15. Part. מְחֹקֵק
(1) a law giver, Deuteronomy 33:21; Isaiah 33:22 a leader, Judges 5:14.
(2) a sceptre, Numbers 21:18; Psalms 60:9; Genesis 49:10.
Hence חֹק, חֻקָּה, [חֻקֹּק], and