1. (v. i.) To cower; to crouch; to curl up.

2. (v. i.) To crowd together; to cuddle.

3. (v. t.) To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.

4. (v. t.) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.

5. (v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind.

6. (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling.

1723. enagkalizomai -- to take into one's arms, to embrace
... embrace, hug. From en and a derivative of agkale; to take in one's arms, ie
Embrace -- take up in arms. see GREEK en. see GREEK agkale. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1723.htm - 6k2263. chabaq -- to clasp, embrace
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to clasp, embrace NASB Word Usage embrace (7),
embraced (3), embracing (1), folds (1), hug (1). embrace, fold. ...
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Righteous Hatred
... a little fox, take heed of it, for it will spoil the grapes; if it come to thee
as a warring lion, seeking whom it may devour; or if it come with the hug of a ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/righteous hatred.htm

External Form of the New Testament.
... The reader may see a collection of examples in Hug's Introduction to the New Testament,
Sec.43, where are also some curious examples of the wrong division of ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxv external form of.htm

The Good Shepherd: a Farewell Sermon
... You never throw off your cloak in a storm, but you hug it the closer; so the law
makes a man hug close his corruptions, (Romans 7:7, 8, 9) but when the gospel ...
/.../selected sermons of george whitefield/the good shepherd a farewell.htm

Matthew.
... [911] Matt. 5:17; 15:24; comp. 10:6. [912] Hug, Bleek, Olshausen ... [925] So Wetstein,
Hug, De Wette, Bleek, Ewald, Ritschl, Holtzmann, Keim, Delitzsch, Keil. ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 80 matthew.htm

Early Training.
... By this time both were thoroughly frightened; for while visiting one of the parks
in Chicago once, they had seen a bear hug his keeper until he could not stand ...
/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter iii early training.htm

After this Diamond Recovered So Fast, that in a Few Days He was ...
... cried. The cab-master had never been so fond of a horse himself as to
hug him like that, but he saw in a moment how it was. And ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 14 after this diamond.htm

Thomas and Jesus
... man can do, went away to brood in a corner by himself, and so to exaggerate all
his idiosyncrasies, to distort the proportion of truth, to hug his despair, by ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture st john chaps xv to xxi/thomas and jesus.htm

Salvation: Grace: Faith
... And from these, as the shepherd drags the kid from the claws of the lion or the
bear's hug, the salvation of the Gospel wrenches and rescues men. ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/salvation grace faith.htm

Literature.
... II. The historico-critical Introductions, or literary Histories of the New Testament
by Hug, De Wette, Credner, Guericke, Horne, Davidson, Tregelles, Grau ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 74 literature.htm

Sojourners with God
... Do we congratulate ourselves on our own cleverness, tact, and skill, saying, 'mine
hand hath done it,' or do we hug ourselves on our own good fortune, and burn ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/sojourners with god.htm

Embrace (11 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. ... (n.) Intimate
or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug. ...
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Hug (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (vt) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish. 5. (vt) To keep close to; as, to
hug the land; to hug the wind. ... Multi-Version Concordance Hug (1 Occurrence). ...
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Press (57 Occurrences)
... 7. (v.) To embrace closely; to hug. 8. (v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon. 9. (v.)
To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger. 10. ...
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Syriac (2 Occurrences)
... been strenuously denied, but since Dr. Hort in his Introduction to Westcott and
Hort's New Testament in the Original Greek, following Griesbach and Hug at the ...
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Huge (19 Occurrences)

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Valley (187 Occurrences)
... As a consequence the roads leading up the valley find it necessary to hug the base
of the mountains on either side to avoid the abrupt descent into the ...
/v/valley.htm - 75k

Huddled (1 Occurrence)

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Jordan (188 Occurrences)
... As a consequence the roads leading up the valley find it necessary to hug the base
of the mountains on either side to avoid the abrupt descent into the ...
/j/jordan.htm - 70k

Versions
... been strenuously denied, but since Dr. Hort in his Introduction to Westcott and
Hort's New Testament in the Original Greek, following Griesbach and Hug at the ...
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Hug (1 Occurrence)

Job 24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
(See NAS NIV)

Hug

Hug (1 Occurrence)

Press (57 Occurrences)

Syriac (2 Occurrences)

Huge (19 Occurrences)

Valley (187 Occurrences)

Huddled (1 Occurrence)

Jordan (188 Occurrences)

Versions

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