Lexical Summary habar: probably divide Original Word: הָבַרTransliteration: habar Phonetic Spelling: (haw-bar') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: probably divide Meaning: to be a, horoscopist Strong's Concordance astrologer A primitive root of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation; to be a horoscopist -- + (astro-)loger. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1895. habar הָבַר verb ? divide (so most, but dubious; Arabic cut into large pieces, cut up, is perhaps Denominative from a 'chunk' of meat; comparison of Arabic be acquainted with, skilled in (AW Kn Di) is also doubtful; if correct, then read חבר; but compare below) — Qal Perfect3plural הברו Isaiah 47:13 Kt, Participle הֹבְרֵי Qr; בִים בַּכּוֺכָּ הַחֹזִים שָׁמַיִם הֹבְרֵ֯ו they that divide the heavens, that gaze at the stars (Kt would be rel. clause without אֲשֶׁר); ׳ה then refers to the distinguishing of signs of zodiac, or other astrological division of sky, compare Che; on zodiac in Babylon see JenKosmologie 57 ff; & on planets & constellations Idib. 95 ff. Epping & StrmAstronomisches aus Babylonian 109 ff.; — but text probably corrupt; GFM (June, 1892) suggests חֹקְרֵי (compare אתהֿארץ חקר Judges 18:2). |
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