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Habakkuk

American  
[huh-bak-uhk, hab-uh-kuhk, -kook] / həˈbæk ək, ˈhæb əˌkʌk, -ˌkʊk /
Douay Bible, Habacuc

noun

  1. a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.

  2. a book of the Bible bearing his name. Hab.


Habakkuk British  
/ ˈhæbəkək /

noun

  1. a Hebrew prophet

  2. the book containing his oracles and canticle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In a 2014 interview, he recalled being heartbroken at having to give away his two pet parakeets, Habakkuk and Zephaniah.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020

Some scholars think he might be Habakkuk, who wondered aloud why God did not seem to answer suffering humanity's cries for help.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2015

The singers were adequate to excellent on Friday, the most notable being James Ruff as Daniel, Peter Walker as Belshazzar and Habakkuk, and Sarah Pillow as Belshazzar’s queen and Habakkuk’s angel.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2013

There may have been just a shade of the sensational in the manner in which Dupont-Sommer originally propounded his thesis in connection with the Habakkuk Commentary.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

Jerome, who in his Chronicon had lauded it, in his commentary on Habakkuk taxes it with stultia foolishness.

From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini

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