BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2265
cha.vaq.quq — 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
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Embrace, the eighth of the twelve minor prophets. Of his personal history we have no reliable information. He was probably a member of the Levitical choir. He was contemporary with Jeremiah and Zephaniah.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
