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# חָצַב

Biblical Hebrew

**hew** — 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

hew [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e6_5b7_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָצַב: vb. hew, hew out, cleave Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e6_5b7_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hew, hew out, cleave (NH id., Aramaic חֲצַב; SI4.6 pt. pl. החצבם; cf. Ph. מחצב = Heb. id.)— Pf. חָצֵב Is 5:2; חָֽצְבָה Pr 9:1; חָצַבְתִּי Ho 6:5, etc.; Impf. וַיַּחְצֹב 2 Ch 26:10; 2 ms. תַּחְצֹב Dt 8:9; Inf. cstr. לַחְצֹב Je 2:13; לַחְצוֹב 1 Ch 22:2; Pt. act. חֹצֵב Is 10:15 + 4 times; cstr. חֹצְבִי Is 22:16; חֹצְבִים 1 Ch 22:2 + 3 times; חֹצְבֵי 2 K 12:13; pass. חֲצוּבִים Dt 6:11 Ne 9:25;— hew out, (dig), wine-vat יֶקֶב Is 5:2; sepulchre (קֶבֶר) Is 22:16(×2); cisterns בֹּרוֹת Dt 6:11(×2) 2 Ch 26:10; Ne 9:25, cf. Je 2:13; of mining מהרריה תַּח׳ נחשׁת Dt 8:9 out of its mountains thou mayst hew out copper. hew stone 1 Ch 22:2; metaph. of pillars Pr 9:1 (subj. wisdom); elsewhere pt., hewer of stone 2 K 12:13; 1 Ch 22:2, 15 (v. SI4.6 supr.); prob. 1 K 5:29; 2 Ch 2:1, 17 (ח׳ בָּהָר v. Be), cf. 24:12; Ezr 3:7. appar. hew wood Is 10:15 ח׳ בוֹ (i.e. בְּגַרְזֶן). metaph. hew in pieces Ho 6:5 fig. of י׳ attacking people by agency of prophets (‖ הֲרַגְתִּים); divide, cleave subj. י׳’s voice ψ 29:7 obj. להבות אשׁ, i.e. the thunder of his voice sends forked lightnings (but on text cf. Che and crit. n.) Impf. יֵחָצְבוּן be cut, hewn, graven (words on rock) Jb 19:24. Pf. חֻצַּבְתֶּם Is 51:1 fig., hewn out of rock (of Isr.’s origin; ‖ נֻקַּר). Pt. מַחֲצֶ֫בֶת Is 51:9 hew in pieces = Qal 3, fig. of destroying רהב = Egypt (cf. ψ 89:11).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 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: stonemasons (4); stonemason\[s\] (3); \[is\] striking (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 29:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.7/#tree)

קוֹל־יְהוָ֥ה חֹצֵ֗ב לַהֲב֥וֹת אֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* the.voice of.Yahweh \[is\].striking flames of.fire

*JPS 1917:* The voice of the LORD heweth out flames of fire.

[1 Kings 5:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.29/#tree)

וַיְהִ֧י לִשְׁלֹמֹ֛ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף נֹשֵׂ֣א סַבָּ֑ל וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֹצֵ֥ב בָּהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.belonged to Solomon seventy thousand carrier\[s\] burden-bearer\[s\] and eighty thousand stonemason\[s\] in the.hill country

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e6_5b7_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5e6_5b7_5d1/): 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).