FROM STRONG’S HEBREW DICTIONARY (1890)

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary (1890) — public domain, printed whole.

chaqaq khaw-kak' — a primitive root; 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:--appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.