Habakkuk - 𐤇𐤁𐤒𐤅𐤒

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Canonical Versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Masoretic Text of Habakkuk - in Hebrew	חבקוק (לפי נוסח חמסורה) מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה	Leningrad Codex Aleppo Codex
Targum Jonathan on Habakkuk - in Jewish Aramaic	תרגום יונתן על חבקוק מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא combined critical edition מקור: ארמיטה	Codex Reuchlinianus 3, 1105 CE
Peshitta Habakkuk - in Syriac Aramaic	ܚܒܩܘܩ ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה	Codex Ambrosianus
Ethiopic Habakkuk - in Ge'ez	ትንቢት ፡ ዘእንባቆም ፡ ነቢይ ። ዐይን: Oscar Löfgren manuscript transcriptions from THEOT: Bodleian Hunt. 625; Princeton Garret Eth. 7; EMIP 949; EMIP 2007; EMML 6930; EMML 7584; Vat. Cerulli 75; all THEOT transcriptions aligned by verse (sample only)	Typical "early" mss.: EMML 2080 (14th-16th c.) [p: 144]; EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 268]; Davies Axum Zion 1 (late 15th c.) [p: 15]; IES 436 (15th-16th c.) [p: 25. incomplete at start.]; EMIP 1029 (15th-16th c.) [p: 166]; EMML 7584 (16th c.) [p: 234]; d'Abbadie 55 (16th c.); Gunda Gunde 152 (16th c.) [p: 97]; Gunda Gunde 181 (16th c.) [p: 118] Typical "standardized" mss.: EMML 1842 (1662/3) [p: 267]; EMML 2440 (1663) [p: 115]; Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706) [p: 261]; Unesco 10-4 (late 17th-early 18th c.) [p: 129]; EMIP 2007 (18th c.) [p: 87]; EMML 6930 (18th c.) [p: 102] Typical "modern" mss.: EMIP 1095 (19th c.) [p: 87]; IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 539v] Beta Israel mss.: d'Abbadie 30 (17th-18th c.); BSB Cod.aethiop. 26 (17th-18th c.) "Minor recension" (Latin Vulgate vorlage) mss.: Unesco 10-34 (1931) [p: 79]; EMIP 949 (20th c.) [p: 96] Other noteworthy ms. Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588, likely an unusually early typical "standardised" text)
Septuagint Habakkuk - in Koine Greek	Αμβακούμ: Rahlfs' edition πηγή: nocr Swete's edition πηγή: biblehub	Codex Vaticanus (p: 978)
Vulgate Habakkuk - in Latin	habacuc fons: vulgate.org	Codex Gigas

Semi-canonical and non-canonical versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Habakkuk - in Hebrew and Koine Greek	ספר חבקוק: נוסחי מגילות ים המלח מקור: הדרך ליהוה	All Dead Sea Scrolls Twelve Minor Prophets fragments Pesher to Habakkuk Scroll (1QpHab)
Alternate Greek recension of Habakkuk ch. 3: "Barberini" text - in Koine Greek	Αμβακούμ Γʹ [doc. pp. 2-9] πηγή: E.M. Good	Vat. Ms. Barberinus Gr. 549 [p: 73r]
Early Palestinian Christian version of Habakkuk - in "Syriac" Aramaic	"ܡܪܐ ܡܫܡܘܥܟ ܫܡܥܬܿ" (Habakkuk ch. 3) ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה
Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Habakkuk - in Latin	habacuc fons: Petri Sabatier
Additional Jewish Targumim: Tosefta to Targum Habakkuk - in Jewish Aramaic	תוספתא לתרגום חבקוק מקור: ארמיטה

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