Hebrew verb · H2672
חָצַב
chatsabkhaw-tsab'
to hew
25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châtsab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2672is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2672
to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
The King James renders it: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
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
chatsab is rendered "to hew". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Six of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 6:11with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
Deuteronomy 6:11חֲצוּבִים֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- stone cutters3
- stone-cutter3
- dug out2
- and he dug1
- and to cutters of1
- digging out1
- he dug out1
- I will cut in pieces1
- she has hewn1
- striking1
- the cuts1
- they will be engraved1
and 8 more, 25 uses in all
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.
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
24 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
- חֹצֵ֣ב2
- הַחֹצֵ֣ב1
- הַמַּחְצֶ֥בֶת1
- וַיַּחְצֹב֙1
- וּלְחֹצְבֵ֣י1
- חָצֵ֣ב1
- חֹצֵ֗ב1
- חֹצֵ֥ב1
- חָצְבָ֖ה1
- חֹצְבִ֤י1
- חֹֽצְבִ֗ים1
- חֹצְבִ֕ים1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular4HVqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural3HVqrmpa
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural2HVqsmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Vqrmpc
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HRd/Vqrmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singular1HTd/Vhrfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun1HVNi3mp/Sn
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVPp2mp
Deuteronomy
three uses
with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
- חֲצוּבִים֙chatzuvimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: dug out
- חָצַ֔בְתָּchatzavtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you dug
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
- תַּחְצֹ֥בtachtzoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will dig
1 Kings
one use
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
- חֹצֵ֥בchotzevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stone-cutter
2 Kings
one use
masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.
- וּלְחֹצְבֵ֣יulechotzeveiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and to cutters of
1 Chronicles
three uses
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.
- חֹֽצְבִ֗יםchotzevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: stone cutters
- לַחְצוֹב֙lachtzovpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cut
You also have many workers: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and men skilled in every kind of work—
- חֹצְבִ֕יםchotzevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: stone cutters
2 Chronicles
four uses
So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- חֹצֵ֣בchotzevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stone-cutter
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- חֹצֵ֣בchotzevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stone-cutter
Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.
- חֹצְבִ֣יםchotzevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: stone cutters
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.
- וַיַּחְצֹב֙vaiyachtzoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he dug
Ezra
one use
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.
- לַחֹצְבִ֖יםlachotzevimpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to the masons
Nehemiah
one use
They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.
- חֲצוּבִ֜יםchatzuvimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: dug out
Job
one use
by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
- יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃yechatzevunverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will be engraved
Psalms
one use
The voice of the LORD strikes with flames of fire.
- חֹצֵ֗בchotzevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: striking
Proverbs
one use
Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
- חָצְבָ֖הchatzevahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has hewn
Isaiah
six uses
He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
- חָצֵ֣בchatzevverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he dug out
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
- הַחֹצֵ֣בhachotzevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the cuts
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?
- חָצַ֧בְתָּchatzavtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have dug out
- חֹצְבִ֤יchotzeviverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: digging out
“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
- חֻצַּבְתֶּ֔םchutzavtemverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you were dug
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?
- הַמַּחְצֶ֥בֶתhamachtzevetthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: who cut in pieces
Jeremiah
one use
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- לַחְצֹ֤בlachtzopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to dig
Hosea
one use
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
- חָצַ֙בְתִּי֙chatzavtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will cut in pieces
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.