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# גָּזִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1496

**cutting** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cutting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1496/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּזִית: n.f. cutting, hewing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1496/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a cutting, hewing—גָּזִית Ex 20:25 + 10 times, always abs.;—hewing, אַבְנֵי ג׳ = hewn stones (building-stones) 1 K 5:31; 1 Ch 22:2; Ez 40:42 (for tables), cf. אֲבָנִים יְקָרוֹת כְּמִדּוֹת ג׳ 1 K 7:9,11 (but Klo del. as gloss, cf. 𝔊; also without אבני = hewn stones Ex 20:25 (altar) Am 5:11 (בָּֽתֵּי ג׳) Is 9:9 (opp. לְבֵנִים); טוּרֵי ג׳ 1 K 6:36, טוּרִים ג׳ 7:12; also La 3:9 גָּדַר דַּרְכִּי בְּג׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of hewn \[stone\] (7); hewn \[stone\] (4).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.9/#tree)

גָּדַ֤ר דְּרָכַי֙ בְּגָזִ֔ית נְתִיבֹתַ֖י עִוָּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* he.has.walled.up ways my with hewn.\[stone\] paths my he.has.made.crooked

*JPS 1917:* He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

[Isaiah 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.9/#tree)

לְבֵנִ֥ים נָפָ֖לוּ וְגָזִ֣ית נִבְנֶ֑ה שִׁקְמִ֣ים גֻּדָּ֔עוּ וַאֲרָזִ֖ים נַחֲלִֽיף׃

*Word for word:* bricks they.have.fallen and hewn.\[stone\] we.will.rebuild sycamores they.have.been.cut.down and cedars we.will.substitute

*JPS 1917:* 'The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but cedars will we put in their place.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1496/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).