חוּגchûwg
only of vault of the heavens (Job 22:14; Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 40:22)
Pronunciation: khoog · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2329
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Job 22:14 For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us. He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’
- Proverbs 8:27 I was there when he established the heavens, when he drew the horizon on the oceans.
- Isaiah 40:22 God sits above the circle of the earth. The people below seem like grasshoppers to him! He spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).