Strong's #2263: chabaq (pronounced khaw-bak')

a primitive root; to clasp (the hands or in embrace):--embrace, fold.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châbaq

1) to embrace, clasp

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to embrace

1a2) to fold one' s hands in idleness (figuratively)

1b) (Piel) to embrace

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

 

Genesis 29:13: "son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house."
Genesis 33:4: "And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed"
Genesis 48:10: "see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced"
2 Kings 4:16: "according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay,"
Job 24:8: "They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want"
Proverbs 4:8: "her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace"
Proverbs 5:20: "wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"
Ecclesiastes 3:5: "and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;"
Ecclesiastes 3:5: "a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; from embracing;"
Ecclesiastes 4:5: "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
Song of Solomon 2:6: "is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace"
Song of Solomon 8:3: "should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace"
Lamentations 4:5: "they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills."