Habakkuk
WordNet
noun
(1) An Old Testament book telling Habakkuk's prophecies
(2) A Hebrew minor prophet
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From , from a prophet of the Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. The name comes either from the Hebrew word or else from an word hambakuku for a kind of plant.
Proper noun
- A prophetic book Old Testament of the Bible; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.
- A Jewish prophet of the Old Testament; author of the book that bears his name.
- of biblical origin.