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# חוּג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2329

**vault** — used 3 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

vault [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2329/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חוּג²: vault, horizon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2329/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] vault, horizon; of the heavens, sea and earth חוּג שׁמים התהלך Jb 22:14; בְּחֻקֿוֹ חוּג על־פני תהום Pr 8:27 (cf. חקק on p. 349a); היֹשֵׁב עַל־חוּג הארץ Is 40:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a circle (1); circle (1); the circle (1).

## In the verses

[Job 22:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.14/#tree)

עָבִ֣ים סֵֽתֶר־ל֭וֹוְלֹ֣א יִרְאֶ֑ה וְח֥וּג שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם יִתְהַלָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* clouds \[are\].a.hiding.place for him and not he.will.see and.\[the\] circle of.heaven he.walks.about

*JPS 1917:* Thick clouds are a covering to Him, that He seeth not; and He walketh in the circuit of heaven.'

[Proverbs 8:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.27/#tree)

בַּהֲכִינ֣וֹ שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑נִי בְּח֥וּקוֹ ח֝֗וּג עַל־פְּנֵ֥י תְהֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* when established he \[the\].heavens \[was\].there I when he marked.out a.circle on the.surface of.the.deep

*JPS 1917:* When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2329.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2329/): 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).