To engrave
חָקָהStrong’s H2707chaqah (cha-qah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chaqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “carved” and “make a mark”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.”
Meaning
- To cut, carve, cut in(Pual) carved (participle) · (Hithpael) to engrave, cut a limit
How it's translated
- the carved 1
- you make a mark 1
- carved 1
- a carved 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 13:27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
- Ezekiel 8:10So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
- Ezekiel 23:14And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Hebrew dictionary
חָקָה chaqah · to engrave
1) to cut, carve, cut in 1a) (Pual) carved (participle) 1b) (Hithpael) to engrave, cut a limit
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “engrave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ENGRA'VE, verb transitive
preterit tense engraved; participle passive engraved or engraven.
- To cut, as metals, stones or other hard substances, with a chisel or graver; to cut figures, letters or devices, on stone or metal; to mark by incision.“Thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel” Exodus 28:11
- To picture or represent by incisions.
- To imprint; to impress deeply; to infix.
- To bury; to deposit in the grave; to inter; to inhume. [Not now used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.