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# חָטַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2404

**cut wood** — used 9 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

cut wood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2404/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָטַב: vb. cut or gather wood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2404/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut or gather wood, usually firewood (NH id.; Arabic حَطَبٌ firewood, حَطَبَ collect firewood (v. Wetzst in De ψ 144:12); Ethiopic ሐጠበ cut (or gather) firewood)— Impf. יַחְטְבוּ Ez 39:10; Inf. לַחְטֹב Dt 19:5; Pt. חֹטֵב Dt 29:10; pl. חֹטְבִים 2 Ch 2:9; cstr. חֹטְבֵי Jos 9:21 + 3 times; pass. pl. f. חֲטֻבוֹת Pr 7:16—cut or gather wood, sq. acc. Dt 19:5; 29:10 (‖ שׁאב מים); cf. Ez 39:10 מן־היערים (obj. in preceding cl.); 2 Ch 2:9 (‖ כֹּרְתֵי הָעֵצִים); Pt. cstr. ח׳ עצים Je 46:22, and (‖ שֹׁאֲבֵי מַיִם) Jos 9:21, 23, 27. Pt. מְחֻטָּבוֹת ψ 144:12 meaning dub.; perhaps hewn (so, in substance, Thes MV SS Ew Che Bae; v. however II. חטב), of corner-pillars (זָוִיּוֹת v. זָוִית p. 265 supr.), sim. of beautiful, stately daughters.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cutters (4); carved (1); cut (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 144:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.12/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּנֵ֨ינוּ ׀ כִּנְטִעִים֮ מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת תַּבְנִ֥ית הֵיכָֽל׃

*Word for word:* that sons our \[will be\].like.plants full.grown in youth(s) their daughters our \[will be\].like.corners carved \[the\].structure of.a.palace

*JPS 1917:* We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;

[Jeremiah 46:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.22/#tree)

קוֹלָ֖הּ כַּנָּחָ֣שׁ יֵלֵ֑ךְ כִּֽי־בְחַ֣יִל יֵלֵ֔כוּ וּבְקַרְדֻּמּוֹת֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔הּ כְּחֹטְבֵ֖י עֵצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* sound its \[is\].like (the) snake \[which\].it.goes (dm) in strength they.will.come and with axes they.will.come to it like cutters of.wood(s)

*JPS 1917:* The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2404.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2404/): 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).