חָצַב
cha.tsav
“to hew”
Definition
to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
or חָצֵב; a primitive root;
- to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hew out, dig 1a2) to hew 1a2a) stone 1a2b) wood 1a3) to hew in pieces (metaph.) 1a4) to divide, cleave 1b) (Niphal) to be cut, be hewn, be engraved 1c) (Hiphil) to hew into pieces, cut up into pieces 1d) (Pual) to be cut from, be hewn from
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
חָצַב appears 18 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
Awake, awake,put on strength, O arm of the LORD.Wake up as in days past,as in generations of old.Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces,who pierced through the dragon?
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