Folding
חִבֻּקStrong’s H2264chibbuq (chib-buq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chibbuq is the Hebrew word usually translated “folding of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”
Meaning
- Fold (hands), a folding (of the hands), clasping (of the hands)of laziness (fig.)
How it's translated
- folding of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חִבֻּק chibbuq · folding
1) fold (hands), a folding (of the hands), clasping (of the hands) 1a) of laziness (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “folding” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOLDING, participle present
tense
- Doubling; laying in plaits; keeping in a fold.
- adjective Doubling; that may close over another, or that consists of leaves which may close one over another; as a folding door.
All definitions and other forms of “folding”
FOLDING, noun
- A fold; a doubling.
- Among farmers, the keeping of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.