Bible Names

Habakkuk: meaning of the name

Habakkuk means “he that embraces; a wrestler.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Habakkuk in Hebrew and Greek

חֲבַקּוּק H2265

Chăbaqqûwq (khab-ak-kook') — Chabakkuk, the prophet

by reduplication from H2263 (חָבַק); embrace;

Who named Habakkuk in the Bible

Habakkuk in Scripture

“Habakkuk” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Habakkuk 1:1

    The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

  • Habakkuk 3:1

    A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.