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Hebrew verb · H2673

חָצָה

chatsahkhaw-tsaw'

to divide

15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: châtsâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2673is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 15
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2673

to cut or split in two; to halve

The King James renders it: divide, [idiom] live out half, reach to the midst, participle

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

chatsah is rendered "to divide". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 32:7In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
  • The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.

The first use

In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

Genesis 32:7וַיַּ֜חַץ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he divided3
  • and they were divided2
  • and he divided them1
  • and it will be divided1
  • and they will divide1
  • and you will divide1
  • he had divided1
  • it reaches1
  • they will be divided1
  • they will divide1
  • they will divide in half1
  • will they divide? it1

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.

חָצָץchatsatsgravelUses2

All 15, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

15 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

  • וְחָצ֣וּ1
  • וְחָצִ֙יתָ֙1
  • וַיַּ֣חַץ1
  • וַיַּ֜חַץ1
  • וַיַּ֛חַץ1
  • וַיֵּחָצ֖וּ1
  • וַיֵּֽחָצוּ֙1
  • וַֽיֶּחֱצֵם֙1
  • וְתֵחָ֕ץ1
  • חָצָ֣ה1
  • יֶֽחֱצֶ֔ה1
  • יֵחָ֥צוּ1

and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms3Hc/Vqw3ms
  • Hc/VNw3mp2Hc/VNw3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/VNj3fs
  • Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
  • Hc/Vqq3cp1Hc/Vqq3cp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVNi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun1HVqi3mp/Sn
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3mp/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms

Genesis

two uses
  • In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

    Genesis 32:7

    • וַיַּ֜חַץvaiyachatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he divided
  • Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

    Genesis 33:1

    • וַיַּ֣חַץvaiyachatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he divided

Exodus

two uses
  • If a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.

    Exodus 21:35

    • וְחָצ֣וּvechatzuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will divide
    • יֶֽחֱצֽוּן׃yechetzunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will divide

Numbers

two uses
  • Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.

    Numbers 31:27

    • וְחָצִ֙יתָ֙vechatzitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will divide
  • From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,

    Numbers 31:42

    • חָצָ֣הchatzahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had divided

Judges

two uses
  • And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.

    Judges 7:16

    • וַיַּ֛חַץvaiyachatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he divided
  • So he took his men, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose up against them and attacked them.

    Judges 9:43

    • וַֽיֶּחֱצֵם֙vaiyechetzemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he divided them

2 Kings

two uses
  • And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

    2 Kings 2:8

    • וַיֵּחָצ֖וּvaiyechatzuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were divided
  • Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.

    2 Kings 2:14

    • וַיֵּֽחָצוּ֙vaiyechatzuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were divided

Job

one use
  • Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

    Job 41:6

    • יֶ֝חֱצ֗וּהוּyechetzuhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will they divide? it

Psalms

one use
  • But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

    Psalms 55:23

    • יֶחֱצ֣וּyechetzuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will divide in half

Isaiah

one use
  • His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.

    Isaiah 30:28

    • יֶֽחֱצֶ֔הyechetzehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it reaches

Ezekiel

one use
  • I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never again be divided into two kingdoms.

    Ezekiel 37:22

    • יֵחָ֥צוּyechatzuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be divided

Daniel

one use
  • But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.

    Daniel 11:4

    • וְתֵחָ֕ץvetechatzconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and it will be divided

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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