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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #2710 - חָקַק
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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.
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
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19