חֻקֹֿק
Hukkok
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Hukkok’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2712 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חקק (Chuqqôq) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Hukkok.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Joshua, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It first appears in Joshua 19:34. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2712 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 1 verse 50%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Hukok 1×, Thence to hukkok 1×
- American Standard Version†: Hukok 1×, Thence to hukkok 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Hukkok 1×, Hukok 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Hukkoh 1×, Hukok 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2712 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2712 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2712 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2712 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Hukkok = "appointed"
- a town on the boundary of Naphtali
Word origin
[ חֻקֹֿק ] n.pr.loc. in tribe of Naphtali, only Jos 19:34
חוּקֹק n.pr.loc. city in Asher 1 Ch 6:60; but rd. prob. חֶלְקַת (q.v.)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חקק (châqaq) (H2710) — to decree.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָקַק
- to draw a circle, to limit;
- 1. (denom. of חֹק) to legislate. Y. Kil. I, 27ᵇ top, a. e. שחָקַקְתִּי, v. חוֹק. Num. R. s. 19, beg., v. חוּקָּה; a. fr.
- 2. to hollow out, to shape a receptacle. Y. Bets. I, 60ᵇ bot. קערה שחֲקָקָהּ קוף a dish which an ape has hollowed out.—Part. pass. חָקוּק, f. חֲקוּקָה. Tosef. B. Bath. III, 1; B. Bath. 65ᵇ, a. e. מכתשת הח׳ the mortar which has been hollowed out (of stone &c.), opp. הקבועה stationary in the ground.
- 3. to engrave, write with the stilus. Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 14, v. הָרַט. Gitt. 20ᵃ וכתב ולא וח׳ ‘he writes’ (Deut. XXIV, 1) but not ‘he engraves’ (on tablets &c.). Ib. חָק תוכות he chisels out the surroundings (making the letters come out in relief); חק יריכות he digs the sides, i.e. he engraves the letters. Gen. R. s. 68; s. 78 שאיקונין שלך חֲקוּקָה וכ׳ whose picture is engraven above (in the heavenly throne). Y. Yoma IV, beg. 41ᵇ חֲקוּקִים היו the inscriptions were engraven (not written with ink). Y. Ned. VI, 40ᵃ top מפני צלמי … שחקוקים וכ׳ on account of the Chaldean images which were engraven on the walls (Ez. XXIII, 14); a. e. e.g. Deuteronomy 24:1
- to be hollowed out. Y. Erub. II, 20ᵃ top אם תֵּיחָקֵק if the block be hollowed out. Sot. 36ᵇ שיֵחָקֵק על וכ׳ (not שיחקוק) to have his name engraven on the jewels &c.; a. e.
חֲקַק
- Lev. R. s. 6 נטל … וחַקְקֵיה he took a reed and hollowed it out. Ḥull. 25ᵃ; Sabb. 103ᵃ חַק קפיזא וכ׳ he hollowed out &c., v. חֲטַט I.—Part. pass. חָקִיק, חֲקִיק engraven, marked. Targ. Y. Ex. XXVIII, 11 (Ar. חקיין). Targ. Y. Lev. XIX, 28 (h. text קעקע). Targ. Cant. II, 9; a. fr.
- to be engraven, to engrave itself. Targ. Y. Ex. XX, 2; 3.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2712 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חוּקֹ֑קָ/ה | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:34 | 1 |
| חוּקֹק֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:75 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2712, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Shares the same root
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hukkok). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Decreed, a town near Zebulun, not far from Jordan, on the border of Naphtali (Josh. 19:34). (See HELKATH.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(incised), a place on the boundary of Naphtali. (Joshua 19:34) It has been recovered in Yakuk, a village in the mountains of Naphtali west of the upper end of the Sea of Galilee.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
engraver; scribe; lawyer
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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