Etymology

Habakkuk

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק ← Akkadian 𒄩𒄠𒁀𒄣𒄣
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The story

  1. Akkadian · derived from𒄩𒄠𒁀𒄣𒄣“garden herb”
  2. Biblical Hebrew · borrowed fromחֲבַקּוּק
  3. English todayHabakkuk

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק (ḥăḇaqqūq). The name perhaps comes from חָבַק (ḥāḇaq, “embrace”), or perhaps from Akkadian 𒄩𒄠𒁀𒄣𒄣 (ḫambaqūqu [ḫa-am-ba-qu-qu], “garden herb”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.