חוּג
chûwg · H2329 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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circle, horizon, vault, dome, canopy
Dome-shaped structure; used exclusively to denote the firmament, which separates the waters above the earth from the earth itself; God is said to have his dwelling-place above this structure; it is also regarded as the boundary between light and darkness
ExamplesJob 22:14 ‘Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see; And He walks on the vault of heaven.’
Proverbs 8:27 “When He established the heavens, I was there; When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
Isaiah 40:22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to live in.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
- שָׁמַיִםheaven, sky 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָקַקto carve 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Regions Above the Earth001001
- The noun names the circle or vault of the heavens, as God "walks on the vault of heaven" hidden by clouds (Job 22:14), or the horizon-circle He inscribed on the face of the deep at creation (Proverbs 8:27).
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2329. chug חוּג noun [masculine] vault; — only of vault of the heavens התהלך שׁמים חוּג…
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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