1) statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed

1a) statute

Root √חקק: חָקַק vb cut in inscribe decree Qal cut in cut in on upon engrave inscribe or. trace mark out , engrave inscribe of a law. Po‛el inscribe enact prescriber commander of laws, hence (as sovereign authority in a warlike clan) commander’s staff (as a law),(poet.) Pu that which is decreed . Hoph inscribed .

חֻקָּה n.f something prescribed enactment statute 104.