Habakkuk

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Habakkuk
       n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet
       2: an Old Testament book tellin Habakkuk's prophecies [syn: {Habacuc},
           {Book of Habakkuk}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Habakkuk
     embrace, the eighth of the twelve minor prophets. Of his
     personal history we have no reliable information. He was
     probably a member of the Levitical choir. He was contemporary
     with Jeremiah and Zephaniah.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Habakkuk, he that embraces; a wrestler