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Strong's #2329 - חוּג
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- circle, circuit, compass
- (BDB) vault (of the heavens)
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1164) ch (ההג HhG) AC: Feast CO: Circle AB: Terror: The pictograph h is a picture of a wall representing outside. The c is a picture of a foot and represents a gathering. Combined these mean "outside gathering". The gathering together for a festival, usually in the form of a circle for dancing and feasting. (eng: hug - as an encircling; circ - an exchange of the h and c and the g and c; cog - an exchange of the h and c)
A) ch (ההג HhG) AC: ? CO: Feast AB: ?: The participants of a festival would gather together and dance in a circle.
Nm) ch (ההג HhG) - Feast: KJV (62): feast, sacrifice - Strongs: H2282 (חָג)
B) cch (ההגג HhGG) AC: ? CO: Feast AB: ?: The participants of a festival would gather together and dance in a circle.
V) cch (ההגג HhGG) - Feast: KJV (16): (vf: Paal) keep, feast, celebrate, dance, holyday, reel to and fro - Strongs: H2287 (חָגַג)
E) ach (ההגא HhGA) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Terror: A spinning around in fear.
Nf) ach (ההגא HhGA) - Terror: KJV (1): terror - Strongs: H2283 (חָגָּא)
J) cfh (ההוג HhWG) AC: ? CO: Circle AB: ?
V) cfh (ההוג HhWG) - Circle: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) compassed - Strongs: H2328 (חוּג)
Nm) cfh (ההוג HhWG) - Circle: KJV (3): circle, circuit, compass - Strongs: H2329 (חוּג)
kf1) ecfhm (מההוגה MHhWGH) - Compass: An instrument for making a circle. KJV (1): compass - Strongs: H4230 (מְחוּגָה)
K) fch (ההגו HhGW) AC: ? CO: Refuge AB: ?: A place where one is encircled by a wall.
Nm) fch (ההגו HhGW) - Cleft: A refuge in the rock. KJV (3): cleft - Strongs: H2288 (חָגוּ)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
חוּג to describe a circle, to draw a circle, as with compasses. Job 26:10. (Syr. ܚܳܓ to go in a circle, ܚܘܽܓܬܐܳ a circle. Kindred roots are חָגַג and עוּג). Hence מְהוּגָה and
חוּג m. a circle, sphere, used of the arch or vault of the sky, Proverbs 8:27; Job 22:14 of the world, Isaiah 40:22.