חָצַב chatsav

Hebrew word for “to hew” · Strong’s H2672 · used 25 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

1) to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason;

How it is translated

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

• dug out 3
• stone-cutters 3
• stone cutters 3
• dug 2
• will dig 1
• cutters 1
• cut 1
• masons 1
• will be engraved ! 1
• striking 1
• has hewn 1
• one who cuts 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 22 (2), 2 Chronicles 2 (2), Isaiah 51 (2), Deuteronomy 6 (1), Deuteronomy 8 (1), 1 Kings 5 (1), 2 Kings 12 (1), 2 Chronicles 24 (1), 2 Chronicles 26 (1), Ezra 3 (1)

Forms

• חצב 5
• חצבים 3
• חצובים 2
• חצבת 2
• תחצב 1
• ולחצבי 1
• לחצוב 1
• ויחצב 1
• לחצבים 1
• יחצבון 1

Words used with it

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

• סַבָּל sabbal “burden” 3
• בּוֹר bor “pit” 4
• עֵץ ets “tree” 5
• חָרָשׁ charash “artificer” 3
• שְׁמֹנִים shemonim “eighty” 3
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 4
• בַּרְזֶל barzel “iron” 3
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 4
• שִׁבְעִים shivim “seventy” 3
• הַר har “mountain” 4
• מַאֲכָל maakhal “food” 2
• טוּב tuv “goodness” 2

Key verses

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

• 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.
• 2 Chronicles 26:10 — Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine…
• Ezra 3:7 — They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from…
• Nehemiah 9:25 — And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so…
• Proverbs 9:1 — Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
• Isaiah 5:2 — And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress…
• Isaiah 10:15 — Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself…
• Isaiah 22:16 — What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth…
• Isaiah 51:1 — Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are…
• Isaiah 51:9 — Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded…
• Jeremiah 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no…
• Hosea 6:5 — Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

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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.