Strong's Hebrew · H2707

חָקָה

châqâh · khaw-kaw'

carved work, portrayed, set a print.

Definition

to carve; by implication, to delineate; also to entrench

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 4 times in Scripture

Ezekiel 23:14

But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

1 Kings 6:35

He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.

Job 13:27

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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