Habakkuk

Colors Related to this Name: Purple, Lilac, Mavve

Qualities Related to this Name: Creative, Light-Hearted

Meaning

In English

Origin: From Latin Habacuc, from Classical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק ‎(chavakúk). The name comes either from the Hebrew word חבק ‎(khavák, “embrace”) or else from an Akkadian word [script needed] ‎(hambakuku) for a kind of plant.

Meaning(s):

-A Jewish prophet of the Old Testament; author of the book that bears his name.

-A prophetic book in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the minor prophets; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.

-(rare) (non-gloss definition ( male name -comes from the Hebrew language-) of biblical origin.)