Strongs H2710

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חָקַק (châqaq) v (khaw-kak')
Source: a primitive root;
Meaning: 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
KJV: appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.

Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry

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[חָקַק] vb. cut in, inscribe, decreeQalcut incut in or on, upon, engrave, inscribetrace, mark outof a law, engrave, inscribePo‛el inscribe (as a law), enact (poet.)prescriber of laws, hence (as sovereign authority in a warlike clan) commandercommander’s staffPu. that which is decreedHoph. inscribed {349}

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