חוּג
chug · circle, vault
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2329 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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chug (חוּג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “circle, vault”.
A circle; "the circle of the heavens" is the vault of the sky.
How to say it
chug
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
- A curved line that goes around; the vault of the sky.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 22:14
Clouds are a hiding place for him, and he does not see; and on the circle of the heavens he walks about.’
- Proverbs 8:27
When he established the heavens, there was I; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
- Isaiah 40:22
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out like a thin veil the heavens, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;