Quick Definition
to decree
Strong's Definition
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
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
TWOT Reference: 728
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָקַק (cha.qaq) — to decree. 1) to cut out, decree, inscribe, set, engrave, portray, govern 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut in 1a2) to cut in or on, cut upon, engrave, inscribe 1a3) to trace, mark out 1a4) to engrave, inscribe (of a law) 1b) (Poel) 1b1) to inscribe, enact, decree 1b2) one who decrees, lawgiver (participle) 1c) (Pual) something decreed, the law (participle) 1d) (Hophal) to be inscribed
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · חוּקֹק · חֹק · חקה · חֻקָּה
Write | verb qal, verb hof | ≈ חקה · כתב
to carve, to portray, to draw, to mark out, to write = action by which humans reproduce the form or shape of an object on another object; ◄ by carving, drawing, writing, etc.; ► for the purpose of decoration, communication, sometimes as preparation for a new construction
JOB 19:23 · PRO 8:27 · PRO 8:29 · ISA 30:8 · ISA 49:16 · EZK 4:1 · EZK 23:14
Happen | verb qal, verb pi, verb pu'al | ≈ כתב · מלךְ
to decree, to issue (a decree) = causative action by which humans prescribe patterns of behavior required from other humans under their authority
Leaders | verb qal, verb pi
commander, leader literally: one who decrees; hence: = person who is in a position of authority over other people
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[חָקַק] vb. cut in, inscribe, decree Qal cut in
cut in or on, upon, engrave, inscribe
trace, mark out
of a law, engrave, inscribe
Po‛el inscribe (as a law), enact (poet.) prescriber of laws, hence (as sovereign authority in a warlike clan) commander
commander’s staff
Pu. that which is decreed
Hoph. inscribed
base