H2265

חֲבַקּוּק

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Habakkuk

A prophet living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Hab.1.1 § Habakkuk = "embrace" a prophet of Israel who wrote the book by that name; probably lived about the 12th or 13th year of the reign of Josiah

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

חֲבַקּוּק proper name, masculine the prophet Habakkuk Hab 1:1; Hab 3:1 ᵐ5 Ἀμβακουμ (Assyrian —amba‡û‡u is name of a plant, Dl^{HA 36, Pr 84}, so in Yemen (Schweinfurth) see Hom^{Aufsätze u. Abh. 1892, 27, 28}).

2 occurrences

Habakkuk 1:1
Habakkuk 3:1