Strong's H2710 · Hebrew

chaqaq

khaw-kak'

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

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H2710

H2710 [ חָקַק ] cut in , inscribe , decree . . cut in . cut in or on , upon , engrave , inscribe . trace , mark out . of a law, engrave , inscribe . inscribe (as a law), enact (poet.) . prescriber of laws, hence (as sovereign authority in a warlike clan) commander . commander’s staff . that which is decreed . inscribed

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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