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# חֲבַקּוּק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2265

**Habakkuk** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Habakkuk [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2265/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲבַקּוּק: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2265/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. the prophet Habakkuk Hb 1:1; 3:1; 𝔊 Ἀμβακουμ (Assyrian ḫambaḳûḳu is name of a plant, DlHA 36, Pr 84, so حبقبق in Yemen (Schweinfurth) v. HomAufsätze u. Abh. 1892, 27, 28).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Habakkuk (2).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.1/#tree)

הַמַּשָׂא֙אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָזָ֔ה חֲבַקּ֖וּק הַנָּבִֽיא׃

*Word for word:* the oracle which he.saw Habakkuk the prophet

*JPS 1917:* THE BURDEN which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

[Habakkuk 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.1/#tree)

תְּפִלָּ֖ה לַחֲבַקּ֣וּק הַנָּבִ֑יא עַ֖ל שִׁגְיֹנֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* a.prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on shiggionoth

*JPS 1917:* A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2265.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2265/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).