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title: חוּג — vault · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חוּג (2329), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: vault. BDB 1906: vault, horizon. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חוּג

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«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.

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

### Glosses

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

### Meaning (OSHB)

vault [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2329/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vault, horizon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2329/#m2)

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**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.

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2329/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 22:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.14/)

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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.'

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[Proverbs 8:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.27/)

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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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