Strong's #2710: chaqaq (pronounced khaw-kak')

a primitive root; 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:--appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châqaq

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

 

Genesis 49:10: "shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet,"
Numbers 21:18: "the nobles digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:"
Deuteronomy 33:21: "for himself, because there, of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people,"
Judges 5:9: "My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly Bless ye the LORD."
Judges 5:14: "out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen"
Job 19:23: "oh that they were printed in a book!"
Psalms 60:7: "also is the strength Judah is my lawgiver;"
Psalms 108:8: "also is the strength Judah is my lawgiver;"
Proverbs 8:15: "By me kings reign, and princes decree"
Proverbs 8:27: "the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:"
Proverbs 8:29: "pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:"
Proverbs 31:5: "Lest they drink, and forget the law, the judgment of any of the afflicted."
Isaiah 10:1: "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, grievousness which they have prescribed;"
Isaiah 22:16: "as he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?"
Isaiah 30:8: "it before a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time"
Isaiah 33:22: "the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save"
Isaiah 49:16: "Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; are continually before"
Ezekiel 4:1: "and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:"
Ezekiel 23:14: "upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,"