Hebrew verb · H2263
חָבַק
chabaqkhaw-bak'
to embrace
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châbaq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2263is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2263
to clasp (the hands or in embrace)
The King James renders it: embrace, fold.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chabaq is rendered "to embrace". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:13When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
Genesis 29:13וַיְחַבֶּק־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seven of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he embraced2
- it embraces me2
- and he embraced him1
- embracing1
- folding1
- from embracing1
- so may you embrace1
- they embrace1
- they have embraced1
- to embrace1
- you will embrace her1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- תְּחַבְּקֵֽנִי׃2
- וַיְחַבֵּ֥ק1
- וַיְחַבֶּק־1
- וַֽיְחַבְּקֵ֔הוּ1
- וּ֝תְחַבֵּ֗ק1
- חֹבֵ֣ק1
- חִבְּק֖וּ1
- חִבְּקוּ־1
- חֹבֶ֣קֶת1
- לַחֲב֔וֹק1
- מֵחַבֵּֽק׃1
- תְחַבְּקֶֽנָּה׃1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpw3ms2Hc/Vpw3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVpi3fs/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVpp3cp
- HC/Vpu2ms1HC/Vpu2ms
- Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3ms
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpi2ms/Sp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular1HVqrfsa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Genesis
three uses
When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
- וַיְחַבֶּק־vaychabek-Hc/Vpw3mstagged: and he embraced
Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
- וַֽיְחַבְּקֵ֔הוּvaychabekehuHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he embraced him
Now Israel’s eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.
- וַיְחַבֵּ֥קvaychabekHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he embraced
2 Kings
one use
And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
- חֹבֶ֣קֶתchoveketverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: embracing
Job
one use
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
- חִבְּקוּ־chibeku-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they embrace
Proverbs
two uses
Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.
- תְחַבְּקֶֽנָּה׃techabbekenahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: you will embrace her
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- וּ֝תְחַבֵּ֗קutechabekHC/Vpu2mstagged: so may you embrace
Ecclesiastes
three uses
a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
- לַחֲב֔וֹקlachavokpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to embrace
- מֵחַבֵּֽק׃mechabekpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from embracing
The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
- חֹבֵ֣קchovekverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: folding
Song of Solomon
two uses
His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
- תְּחַבְּקֵֽנִי׃techabekeniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it embraces me
His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
- תְּחַבְּקֵֽנִי׃techabekeniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it embraces me
Lamentations
one use
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
- חִבְּק֖וּchibekuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have embraced
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.