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Strong's #2263 - חָבַק
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- to embrace, clasp
- (Qal)
- to embrace
- to fold one´s hands in idleness (figuratively)
- (Piel) to embrace
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2142) qbh (ההבק HhBQ) AC: Embrace CO: ? AB: ?: [from: bh- as being enclose]
V) qbh (ההבק HhBQ) - Embrace: KJV (13): (vf: Paal, Piel) embrace, fold - Strongs: H2263 (חָבַק)
edm) qfbih (ההיבוק HhYBWQ) - Embrace: KJV (2): folding - Strongs: H2264 (חִבֻּק)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Infinitive לַחֲבוֺק Ecclesiastes 3:5; Participle חֹבֵּק Ecclesiastes 4:5; חֹבֶקֶת 2 Kings 4:16; — embrace, with accusative בֵּן 2 Kings 4:16; יָדָיו Ecclesiastes 4:5 (said of הַכְּסִיל = fold his arms, i.e. be idle; compare חִבֻּק); no object expressed Ecclesiastes 3:5 ("" Pi`el).
Pi`el Perfect חִבְּקוּ Job 24:8; Lamentations 4:5; Imperfect וַיְחַבֵּק Genesis 48:10; וַיְחַבֶּקֿ Genesis 29:13; וַיְחַבְּקֵהוּ Genesis 33:4; 3 feminine singular suffix תְּחַבְּקֵ֫נִי Song of Solomon 2:6; Song of Solomon 8:3; 2 masculine singular וּתְחַבֵּק Proverbs 5:20, suffix תְּחַבְּקֶ֫נָּה Proverbs 4:8; Infinitive חַבֵּק Ecclesiastes 3:5; — embrace of person, no object עת לִרְחֹק מֵחַבֵּק Ecclesiastes 3:5 ("" Qal); followed by לְ Genesis 29:13 (J), Genesis 48:10 (E); followed by suffix Genesis 33:4 (J), Proverbs 4:8; Song of Solomon 2:6; Song of Solomon 8:3; with accusative Proverbs 5:20; embrace צוּר for want of shelter Job 24:8 (of poor); embrace refuse-heaps אשׁפתות Lamentations 4:5, i.e. are outcasts.
חָבַק in Kal only occurring three times, inf. חֲבֹק Ecclesiastes 3:5, part. חֹבֵק Ecclesiastes 4:5; 2 Kings 4:16, elsewhere only in Piel.
Piel חִבֵּק fut. יְחַבֵּק part. מְחַבֵּק
(1) to embrace, followed by an acc. Genesis 33:4; Proverbs 4:8, 5:20 followed by a dat. Genesis 29:13, 48:10. To embrace the rock, the dunghill, for to lie, or make one’s bed, on them, Job 24:8; Lamentations 4:5.
(2) with the addition of יָדַיִם to fold the hands (spoken of an idle man), Ecclesiastes 4:5. Hence