{"def":{"short":"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","long":["to cut out, decree, inscribe, set, engrave, portray, govern",["(Qal)",["to cut in","to cut in or on, cut upon, engrave, inscribe","to trace, mark out","to engrave, inscribe (of a law)"],"(Poel)",["to inscribe, enact, decree","one who decrees, lawgiver (participle)"],"(Pual) something decreed, the law (participle)","(Hophal) to be inscribed"]]},"deriv":"a primitive root","pronun":{"ipa":"ħɔːˈk’ɑk’","ipa_mod":"χɑːˈkɑk","sbl":"ḥāqaq","dic":"haw-KAHK","dic_mod":"ha-KAHK"}}