- חוּק
- חוּקch. sam(חוק to round, arch, hollow).Part. חָאִיק. Targ. Job 24:16 ed. Lag. (Var. הָאֵיק, ed. Wil. הָאֵק, oth. ed. דאיק, corr. acc.; h. text חתר). Pa. חַיֵּיק to dig out. Sabb.109b ולִיחַיְּיקֵיה לגויה Rashi a. Ms. O. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 200) let him dig out its interior. Snh.56a (ref. to נקב, Lev. 24:16) ואימא דח׳ שםוכ׳ may it not mean that he cut out the Divine Name in the edge of the knife?, v. נָקַב.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.