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Numbers 21:18

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Masoretic Text 1524

H875 the well באר

H2658 digged חפרוה

H8269 The princes שׂרים

H3738 כרוה

H5081 the nobles נדיבי

H5971 of the people העם

H2710 it by the direction of the lawgiver במחקק

H4938 with their staves במשׁענתם

H4057 וממדבר

H4980 they went to Mattanah מתנה׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

The

H8269 princes

H2658 digged

the

H875 well

the

H5081 nobles

the

H5971 people

H2658 digged

the

direction

the

H2710 lawgiver

with

their

H4938 staves

And

from

the

H4480 wilderness

they

went

H4980 Mattanah

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H2710

Hebrew: חָקַק

Transliteration: châqaq

Pronunciation: khaw-kak'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: {appoint} {decree} {governor} {grave} {lawgiver} {note} {pourtray} {print} set.

Definition:

properly to {hack} that {is} engrave ( to be a scribe simply); by implication to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) or (generally) prescribe

1. to cut out, decree, inscribe, set, engrave, portray, govern

a. (Qal)

1. to cut in

2. to cut in or on, cut upon, engrave, inscribe

3. to trace, mark out

4. to engrave, inscribe (of a law)

b. (Poel)

1. to inscribe, enact, decree

2. one who decrees, lawgiver (participle)

c. (Pual) something decreed, the law (participle)

d. (Hophal) to be inscribed

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906