Chaqaq means “grave” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2710 — katachraomai (“abuse”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2710 חָקַק (chaqaq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chaqaq (khaw-kak') v. 1. (properly) to hack, i.e. engrave (Judges 5 2. (by implication) to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) It has 19 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include is, was, were, law, and be. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chaqaq (khaw-kak') v. 1. (properly) to hack, i.e. engrave (Judges 5 2. (by implication) to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) 3. (generally) to prescribe [a primitive root] KJV: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2710. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to decree
Usage: 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chaqaq, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2710.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2710, grouped by book.
Chaqaq (Strong's H2710) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "grave". chaqaq (khaw-kak') v. 1. (properly) to hack, i.e. engrave (Judges 5 2. (by implication) to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times)
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H2710 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2710 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as is, was, were, law, be, and are. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.