Limitless Word
חָקַקchâqaq/khaw-kak'/
HebrewH271019 occurrences (KJV)

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

KJV renders it: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.

Where it appears

  • Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
  • Num 21:18the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;
  • Deut 33:21He provided the first part for himself, for the lawgiver’s portion reserved was reserved for him. He came with the heads of the people. He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel.”
  • Judg 5:9My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!
  • Judg 5:14Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.
  • Job 19:23“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
  • Ps 60:7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
  • Ps 108:8Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.
  • Prov 8:15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
  • Prov 8:27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
  • Prov 8:29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
  • Prov 31:5lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
  • Isa 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
  • Isa 22:16‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
  • Isa 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
  • Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
  • Isa 49:16Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. your walls are continually before me.
  • Ezek 4:1“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.
  • Ezek 23:14“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.