גָּזִית gazit

Hebrew word for “cutting” · Strong’s H1496 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

a cutting, hewing

How it is translated

Glosses given for gazit in context, with how often each is used:

• hewn stone 11

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 7 (3), Exodus 20 (1), 1 Kings 5 (1), 1 Kings 6 (1), 1 Chronicles 22 (1), Isaiah 9 (1), Lamentations 3 (1), Ezekiel 40 (1), Amos 5 (1)

Forms

• גזית 9
• וגזית 1
• בגזית 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gazit more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֶבֶן even “stone” 6
• אֶרֶז erez “cedar” 4
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 5
• יָקָר yaqar “precious” 3
• כָּרֻתָה karutah “beam” 2
• חָצֵר chatser “court” 3
• טוּר tur “row” 2
• פְּנִימִי penimi “inner” 2
• מִדָּה middah “measure” 2
• גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 3
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 2
• הֶם hem “them” 2

Key verses

The verses using gazit that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 20:25 — And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
• 1 Kings 5:17 — And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
• 1 Kings 6:36 — And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
• 1 Kings 7:9 — All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and…
• 1 Kings 7:11 — And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
• 1 Kings 7:12 — And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the…
• 1 Chronicles 22:2 — And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
• Isaiah 9:10 — The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
• Lamentations 3:9 — He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
• Ezekiel 40:42 — And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also…
• Amos 5:11 — Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.