Hebrew verb · H2404
חָטַב
chatabkhaw-tab'
to chop
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châṭab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2404is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2404
to chop or carve wood
The King James renders it: cut down, hew(-er), polish.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chatab is rendered "to chop". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 19:5If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
Deuteronomy 19:5לַחְטֹ֣ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's nine uses are in Joshua.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cutters of2
- and cutters of1
- carved1
- from cutter of1
- like cutters of1
- they will cut1
- to cut1
- to the wood-cutters1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְחֹטְבֵ֥י1
- חֹטְבֵ֨י1
- חֹטְבֵ֥י1
- יַחְטְבוּ֙1
- כְּחֹטְבֵ֖י1
- לַחְטֹ֣ב1
- לַֽחֹטְבִ֣ים׀1
- מֵחֹטֵ֣ב1
- מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HVqrmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Vqrmpc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Vqrmpc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Vqrmsc
- preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HRd/Vqrmpa
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine plural1HVPsfpa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
Deuteronomy
two uses
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
- לַחְטֹ֣בlachtopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cut
your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
- מֵחֹטֵ֣בmechotevpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from cutter of
Joshua
three uses
They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.
- חֹטְבֵ֨יchoteveiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cutters of
Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
- וְחֹטְבֵ֥יvechoteveiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and cutters of
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
- חֹטְבֵ֥יchoteveiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cutters of
2 Chronicles
one use
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
- לַֽחֹטְבִ֣ים׀lachotevimpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to the wood-cutters
Psalms
one use
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹתmechutavotverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: carved
Jeremiah
one use
Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.
- כְּחֹטְבֵ֖יkechoteveipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like cutters of
Ezekiel
one use
They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.
- יַחְטְבוּ֙yachtevuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will cut
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.