Bible word study

Chaqaq (Strong’s H2710): Meaning in the Bible

Chaqaq (חָקַק) is the Hebrew word numbered H2710 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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. In the King James Bible it is translated appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver.

• Original wordחָקַק
• Transliterationchâqaq
• Pronunciationkhaw-kak'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH2710
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Chaqaq appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Chaqaq (H2710) stands behind 19 English renderings in 19 verses across 9 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (5), Proverbs (4), Judges (2).

How the King James Bible renders Chaqaq, by count

• lawgiver6 of 19 (32 percent)
• decree2 of 19 (11 percent)
• governors2 of 19 (11 percent)
• appointed1 of 19 (5 percent)
• graven1 of 19 (5 percent)
• graveth1 of 19 (5 percent)

Three places to read Chaqaq

• Genesis 49:10 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.
• Psalms 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
• Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Chaqaq in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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