Curve
חַמּוּקStrong’s H2542chammuq (cham-muq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chammuq is the Hebrew word usually translated “curves of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.”
Meaning
- Curve, curving
How it's translated
- curves of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חַמּוּק chammuq · curve
curve, curving
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “curve” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CURVE, adjective
[Latin, bent, crooked; to bend, turn or wind.]
Bending; crooked; inflected in a regular form, and forming part of a circle; as a curve line, which may be cut by a right line in more points than one. A curve line is that which is neither a straight line, nor composed of straight lines.
All definitions and other forms of “curve”
CURVE, noun
A bending in a regular form, or without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; part of a circle. In geometry, a line which may be cut by a right line in more points than one.
CURVE, verb transitive
[Latin]
To bend; to crook; to inflect.
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.