Habakkuk Definition

hăbə-kŭk, -ko͝ok, hə-băkək
noun
A Hebrew prophet of c. 7th cent. b.c.
Webster's New World
The book containing his prophecies.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A prophetic book in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the minor prophets; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.

Wiktionary

A Jewish prophet of the Old Testament; author of the book that bears his name.

Wiktionary
(rare) A male given name of biblical origin.
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Origin of Habakkuk

  • From Latin Habacuc, from Classical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק (chavakúk, “Habakkuk”). The name comes either from the Hebrew word חבק (khavák, “embrace”) or else from an Akkadian word [script?] (hambakuku) for a kind of plant.

    From Wiktionary

  • Hebrew ḥăbaqqûq perhaps akin to Akkadian ḫabbaququ a type of plant

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Habakkuk Sentence Examples

  • In regard to the poem which forms the third and closing chapter of the present book of Habakkuk, there is much more general agreement.

  • Margolis discusses the anonymous Greek version of Habakkuk iii.

  • A few years later (about 600) the two Pentateuchal documents J and E were woven together, the books of Kings were compiled, the book of Habakkuk and parts of the Proverbs were written.

  • It will be evident even from this rapid sketch, necessarily confined to a few of the most cardinal points, that Hebrew prophecy is not a thing that can be defined and reduced to a formula, but was a living institution which can only be understood by studying its growth and observing its connexion with the historical movements with which its various manifestations were bound up. Throughout the great age of prophecy the most obvious formal character that distinguished it was that the 1 One might say from the days of Habakkuk.

  • Instead of the epistle, sundry passages from Hosea, Habakkuk, Exodus and the Psalms are read.

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