Definition

Chabakkuk, the prophet

Etymology

by reduplication from H2263 (חָבַק); embrace;

Word family

• חָבַק châbaq

How the KJV renders it

• Habakkuk

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.