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# מַחְצֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4274

**hewing** — used 3 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

hewing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4274/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְצֵב: hewing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4274/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hewing, always אַבְנֵי מ׳ = hewn stones 2 K 12:13; 22:6 = 2 Ch 34:11 (in all ‖ עֵצִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of hewing (3).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 22:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.6/#tree)

לֶחָ֣רָשִׁ֔ים וְלַבֹּנִ֖ים וְלַגֹּֽדְרִ֑ים וְלִקְנ֤וֹת עֵצִים֙ וְאַבְנֵ֣י מַחְצֵ֔ב לְחַזֵּ֖ק אֶת־הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* to the craftsmen and to the builders and to the wall-builders and to acquire wood(s) and stones of.hewing to repair (et) the house

*JPS 1917:* unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons; and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.' —

[2 Chronicles 34:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.11/#tree)

וַֽיִּתְּנ֗וּ לֶחָֽרָשִׁים֙ וְלַבֹּנִ֔ים לִקְנוֹת֙ אַבְנֵ֣י מַחְצֵ֔ב וְעֵצִ֖ים לַֽמְחַבְּר֑וֹת וּלְקָרוֹת֙ אֶת־הַבָּ֣תִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִשְׁחִ֖יתוּ מַלְכֵ֥י יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.gave.\[it\] to the craftsmen and to the builders to acquire stones of.hewing and wood(s) for the clamps and to make.beams.for (et) the houses which they.had.ruined the.kings of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4274.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4274/): 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).