חוּג

«חוּג» in the Tanakh dictionary: vault — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 3 times · Key: 2329 · BDB: חוּג²

Glosses

a.circle (1); circle (1); the.circle (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

vault tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

vault, horizon tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.[m.] vault, horizon; of the heavens, sea and earth חוּג שׁמים התהלך Jb 22:14; בְּחֻקֿוֹ חוּג על־פני תהום Pr 8:27 (cf. חקק on p. 349a); היֹשֵׁב עַל־חוּג הארץ Is 40:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «חוּג» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Job 22:14

עָבִ֣ים סֵֽתֶר־ל֭וֹוְלֹ֣א יִרְאֶ֑ה וְח֥וּג שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם יִתְהַלָּֽךְ׃

Word for word: clouds [are].a.hiding.place for him and not he.will.see and.[the] circle of.heaven he.walks.about

JPS 1917: Thick clouds are a covering to Him, that He seeth not; and He walketh in the circuit of heaven.'

Proverbs 8:27

בַּהֲכִינ֣וֹ שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑נִי בְּח֥וּקוֹ ח֝֗וּג עַל־פְּנֵ֥י תְהֽוֹם׃

Word for word: when established he [the].heavens [was].there I when he marked.out a.circle on the.surface of.the.deep

JPS 1917: When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep,

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