chakak · inscribe, decree; ruler's staff

What it means

chakak (חָקַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “inscribe, decree; ruler's staff”.

Engrave, inscribe; decree, lay down laws. The participle means lawgiver, or the ruler's staff, the rod of the one who gives laws.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To mark letters or figures on a hard surface so that they remain.
2. To make laws, set rules.
3. The staff of the ruler.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• decree ×2
• engraved ×2
• staff of command ×2
• those who command ×2
• carving ×1
• commander ×1
• engrave ×1
• inscribe it ×1
• lawgiver ×1
• nor the ruler’s staff ×1
• others ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×5
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 49:10

  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be the obedience of the peoples.

• Numbers 21:18

  The well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people excavated, with the scepter, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah,

• Deuteronomy 33:21

  He chose the first part for himself, for there the portion of a commander was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people; he carried out the righteousness of YHWH and his judgments with Israel.”

• Judges 5:9

  My heart is with those who command Israel, with those who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless YHWH!

• Judges 5:14

  From Ephraim came those whose root is in Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. From Machir went down those who command, and from Zebulun those who carry the staff of the scribe.

• Job 19:23

  If only, then, my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book;

• Psalms 60:7

  Mine is Gilead, and mine is Manasseh; and Ephraim is the stronghold of my head; Judah is my staff of command.

• Psalms 108:8

  Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh; and Ephraim is the stronghold of my head; Judah is my staff of command.

• Proverbs 8:15

  By me kings reign, and rulers decree righteousness.

• Proverbs 8:27

  When he established the heavens, there was I; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

• Proverbs 8:29

  when he set for the sea its statute, so that the waters would not pass beyond his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

• Proverbs 31:5

  lest he drink and forget what is decreed and pervert the cause of all the sons of affliction.

• Isaiah 10:1

  Woe to those who decree decrees of wickedness, and to the writers who write suffering,

• Isaiah 22:16

  ‘What do you have here, and whom do you have here, that you have hewn for yourself here a grave?’ (hewing on high his grave, carving in the crag a dwelling for himself).

• Isaiah 30:8

  Now go, write it on a tablet before them, and in a book inscribe it, that it may be for the day to come, forever, for all eternity.

• Isaiah 33:22

  For YHWH is our judge, YHWH is our lawgiver, YHWH is our King; he will save us.

• Isaiah 49:16

  Look, on the palms of my hands I have engraved you; your walls are before me continually.

• Ezekiel 4:1

  And you, son of man, take for yourself a brick and set it before you, and engrave on it a city, Jerusalem.

• Ezekiel 23:14

  And she added to her prostitutions; and she saw men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans engraved in vermilion,