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title: חוּג — draw round · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חוּג (2328), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: draw round. BDB 1906: vb. draw round, make circle. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חוּג

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«חוּג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **draw round** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2328 · **BDB:** חוּג

### Glosses

he.has.drawn.a.circle (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

draw round [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2328/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. draw round, make circle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2328/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. draw round, make circle (Aramaic ܚܳܓ circumivit; n. ܚܽܘܓܬܳܐ, חוּגְתָּא, circle, vault of heavens) Pf. חֹק חָג על־פני מים Jb 26:10 (cf. Pr 8:27), hath drawn as circle bound, of horizon-line.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חוּג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2328/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 26:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.10/)

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חֹֽק־חָ֭ג עַל־פְּנֵי־מָ֑יִם עַד־תַּכְלִ֖ית א֣וֹר עִם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

*Word for word:* a.limit he.has.drawn.a.circle on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters to \[the\].end of.light with darkness

*JPS 1917:* He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

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