English
Habakkuk
Habakkuk comes from Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק.
- Biblical Hebrewc. 1000–200 BCEחֲבַקּוּקḥăḇaqqūq
- Englishearliest quotation 1906Habakkuk
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Biblical Hebrewc. 1000–200 BCEחֲבַקּוּקḥăḇaqqūq
- Englishearliest quotation 1906Habakkuk
Earliest quotation: 1906, S. R. Driver, The Minor Prophets: Nahum: “Of Habakkuk's personal life nothing is known with certainty,…”
The story
The name perhaps comes from חָבַק (ḥāḇaq, “embrace”), or perhaps from Akkadian 𒄩𒄠𒁀𒄣𒄣 (ḫambaqūqu [ḫa-am-ba-qu-qu], “garden herb”).
Every English word from Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק
Today it means
name 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.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק / Habakkuk