chavak · embrace

What it means

chavak (חָבַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “embrace”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put one's arms around someone in affection, or cling to something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• embrace ×4
• embraced ×3
• embraces me ×2
• embracing ×2
• folds ×1
• they hug ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Song of Songs×2
• Lamentations×1

• Genesis 29:13

  When Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

• Genesis 33:4

  But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.

• Genesis 48:10

  Now the eyes of Israel were heavy from old age; he could not see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

• 2 Kings 4:16

  He said, “At this appointed time, about this time next year, you will be embracing a son.” She said, “No, my lord, man of Elohim, do not lie to your servant.”

• Job 24:8

  With the downpour of the mountains they are drenched, and for lack of refuge they hug the rock.

• Proverbs 4:8

  Exalt her, and she will raise you up; she will honor you when you embrace her.

• Proverbs 5:20

  And why would you be lost, my son, with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?

• Ecclesiastes 3:5

  a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to keep far from embracing;

• Ecclesiastes 4:5

  The senseless folds his hands and eats his own flesh.

• Song of Songs 2:6

  His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

• Song of Songs 8:3

  His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

• Lamentations 4:5

  Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up on crimson embrace dung heaps.

And 1 more times.