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Lexicon :: Strong's H2672 - ḥāṣaḇ

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חָצַב
Transliteration
ḥāṣaḇ
Pronunciation
khaw-tsab'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 718

Strong’s Definitions

חָצַב châtsab, khaw-tsab'; or חָצֵב châtsêb; a primitive root; to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave:—cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x

The KJV translates Strong's H2672 in the following manner: dig (5x), hew (4x), hewers (4x), hew out (4x), mason (3x), cut (1x), divideth (1x), graven (1x), hewn (1x), made (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x
The KJV translates Strong's H2672 in the following manner: dig (5x), hew (4x), hewers (4x), hew out (4x), mason (3x), cut (1x), divideth (1x), graven (1x), hewn (1x), made (1x).
  1. to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason

    1. (Qal)

      1. to hew out, dig

      2. to hew

        1. stone

        2. wood

      3. to hew in pieces (metaph.)

      4. to divide, cleave

    2. (Niphal) to be cut, be hewn, be engraved

    3. (Hiphil) to hew into pieces, cut up into pieces

    4. (Pual) to be cut from, be hewn from

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָצַב châtsab, khaw-tsab'; or חָצֵב châtsêb; a primitive root; to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave:—cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
STRONGS H2672: Abbreviations
† [חָצַב] חָצֵב verb hew, hew out, cleave (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic חֲצַב; SI4. 6 participle plural החצבם; compare Phoenician מחצב=Hebrew id.) —
Qal Perfect חָצֵב Isaiah 5:2; חָֽצְבָה Proverbs 9:1; חָצַבְתִּי Hosea 6:5, etc.; Imperfect וַיַּחְצֹב 2 Chronicles 26:10; 2nd person masculine singular תַּחְצֹב Deuteronomy 8:9; Infinitive construct לַחְצֹב Jeremiah 2:13; לַחְצוֺב 1 Chronicles 22:2; Participle active חֹצֵב Isaiah 10:15 + 4 times; construct חֹצְבִי Isaiah 22:16; חֹצְבִים 1 Chronicles 22:2 + 3 times; חֹצְבֵי 2 Kings 12:13; passive חֲצוּבִים Deuteronomy 6:11; Nehemiah 9:25; —
1. hew out, (dig), wine-vat יֶקֶב Isaiah 5:2; sepulchre (קֶבֶר) Isaiah 22:16 (twice in verse); cisterns בֹּרוֺת Deuteronomy 6:11 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 26:10; Nehemiah 9:25, compare Jeremiah 2:13; of mining נחשׁת מהרריה תַּת׳ Deuteronomy 8:9 out of its mountains thou mayst hew out copper.
2. a. hew stone 1 Chronicles 22:2; metaphor of pillars Proverbs 9:1 (subject wisdom); elsewhere participle, hewer of stone 2 Kings 12:13; 1 Chronicles 22:2, 15 (see SI4.6 above); probably 1 Kings 5:29; 2 Chronicles 2:1; 2 Chronicles 2:17 (בָּהָר ח׳ see Be), compare 2 Chronicles 24:12; Ezra 3:7.
b. apparently hew wood Isaiah 10:15 בוֺ ח׳ (i.e. בְּגַרְזֶן).
3. metaphorical hew in pieces Hosea 6:5 figurative of י׳ attacking people by agency of prophets (|| הֲרַגְתִּים); divide, cleave subject י׳'s voice Psalm 29:7 object להבות אשׁ, i.e. the thunder of his voice sends forked lightnings (but on text compare Che and critical note)
Niph. Imperfect יֵחָצְבוּן be cut, hewn, graven (words on rock) Job 19:24.
Pu. Perfect חֻצַּבְתֶּם Isaiah 51:1 figurative, hewn out of rock (of Israel's origin; || נֻקַּר).
Hiph. Participle מַחֲצֶ֫בֶת Isaiah 51:9 hew in piecesQal 3, figurative of destroying רהב=Egypt (compare Psalm 89:11).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

6:11; 6:11; 8:9; 8:9

2 Kings

12:13; 12:13

1 Chronicles

22:2; 22:2; 22:2; 22:2; 22:15

2 Chronicles

2:1; 2:17; 24:12; 26:10; 26:10

Ezra

3:7

Nehemiah

9:25; 9:25

Job

19:24

Psalms

29:7; 89:11

Proverbs

9:1; 9:1

Isaiah

5:2; 5:2; 10:15; 10:15; 22:16; 22:16; 51:1; 51:9

Jeremiah

2:13; 2:13

Hosea

6:5; 6:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2672 matches the Hebrew חָצַב (ḥāṣaḇ),
which occurs 25 times in 22 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:11 - and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn (excavated) cisterns (wells) which you did not dig out, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are full and satisfied,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - a land where you will eat bread without shortage, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:15 - Solomon had 70,000 burden bearers (transporters) and 80,000 stonemasons in the hill country [of Judah],
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:12 - and to the masons and stonecutters, and to buy timber and hewn (cut) stone to repair any breach in the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for repairing the house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:2 -

So David gave orders to gather the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, and he assigned stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:15 - “Further, you have workmen in abundance: stonecutters and stonemasons and carpenters, and all men who are skillful in every kind of work.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:2 - [fn]So Solomon assigned 70,000 men to carry loads, 80,000 men to quarry stone in the mountains, and 3,600 to supervise them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:18 - He assigned 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry stone in the mountain, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:12 - The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of the LORD; and they would hire masons and carpenters (craftsmen) and also those who worked in iron and bronze to repair and restore the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:10 - He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, for he had a great deal of livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plain. He also had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields, for he loved the soil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - They gave money to the masons and to the carpenters, and gave food, drink, and [olive] oil to the people from Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the seaport of Joppa, in accordance with the authorization they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 -

“They captured fortified cities and a fertile land.

They took possession of houses full of all good things,

Hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves,

And [fn]fruit trees in abundance.

So they ate and were filled and became fat,

And they reveled and were delighted in Your great goodness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:24 -

“That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead

They were engraved in the rock forever!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:7 -

The voice of the LORD rakes flames of fire (lightning).

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:1 -

Wisdom has built her [spacious and sufficient] house;

She has hewn out and set up her seven pillars.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:2 -

He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,

And planted it with [fn]the choicest vine (the people of Judah).

And He built a tower in the center of it;

And also hewed out a [fn]wine vat in it.

Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,

But it produced only worthless ones.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 -

Is the axe able to lift itself over the one who chops with it?

Is the saw able to magnify itself over the one who wields it?

That would be like a club moving those who lift it,

Or like a staff raising him who is not [made of] wood [like itself]!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 -

‘What business do you have here?

And whom do you have here,

That you have hewn out a tomb here for yourself,

You who hew a sepulcher on the height,

You who carve a resting place for yourself in the rock?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:1 -

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness (right standing with God),

Who seek and inquire of the LORD:

Look to the rock from which you were cut

And to the excavation of the quarry from which you were dug.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 -

Awake, awake, put on strength and might, O arm of the LORD;

Awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of long ago.

Was it not You who cut Rahab (Egypt) in pieces,

Who pierced the dragon [of Egypt]?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:13 -

“For My people have committed two evils:

They have abandoned (rejected) Me,

The fountain of living water,

And they have carved out their own cisterns,

Broken cisterns

That cannot hold water.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:5 -

Therefore, I have hewn them in pieces by [the words of] the prophets;

I have slain them by the words of My mouth;

My judgments [pronounced upon them by the prophets] are like the light that shines forth [obvious to all].

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