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Strong's #2265 - חֲבַקּוּק

Transliteration

Chăbaqqûwq

Phonetics

khab-ak-kook'

Origin

by reduplication from (H2263)

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Habakkuk = "embrace"
1. a prophet of Israel who wrote the book by that name; probably lived about the 12th or 13th year of the reign of Josiah

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (2)

Habakkuk 2

BSB (2)

Habakkuk 2

CSB (2)

Habakkuk 2

ESV (2)

Habakkuk 2

KJV (2)

Habakkuk 2

LEB (2)

Habakkuk 2

LSB (2)

Habakkuk 2

N95 (2)

Habakkuk 2

NAS (2)

Habakkuk 2

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (2)

Habakkuk 2

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

חֲבַקּוּק proper name, masculine the prophet Habakkuk Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 3:1; ᵐ5 Ἀμβακουμ (Assyrian —amba‡û‡u is name of a plant, Dl^{HA 36, Proverbs 84}, so

in Yemen (Schweinfurth) see Hom^{Aufsätze u. Abh. 1892,27, 28}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

חֲבַקּוּק (“embrace,” of the form שַׁעֲרוּר), pr.n. of Habakkuk the prophet, Habakkuk 1:1, 3:1. LXX. Ἀμβακούμ, according to the form חַבָּקוּק and κ corrupted into μ.

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List of Word Forms

חֲבַקּ֖וּק חבקוק לַחֲבַקּ֣וּק לחבקוק chavakKuk ḥă·ḇaq·qūq ḥăḇaqqūq la·ḥă·ḇaq·qūq lachavakKuk laḥăḇaqqūq