Cutting
גָּזִיתStrong’s H1496gazit (ga-zit)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gazit is the Hebrew word usually translated “hewn”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.”
Meaning
- A cutting, hewing
How it's translated
- hewn 9
- and hewn 1
- with hewn 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 5
- Exodus 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
- Ezekiel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 5:17And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:9All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
- 1 Kings 7:11And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
- 1 Kings 7:12And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
- 1 Chronicles 22:2And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּזִית gazit · cutting
a cutting, hewing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cutting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUTTING, participle present
tense [See Cut.]
- Dividing by an edged instrument; cleaving by the stroke or motion of an edged instrument, as by a knife, ax, or saw; hewing; carving; intersecting; piercing.
- adjective Piercing the heart; wounding the feelings; deeply affecting with shame or remorse; pungent; piquant; satirical; as a cutting reflection.
All definitions and other forms of “cutting”
CUTTING, noun
- A separation or division; a piece cut off; a ship; as the cuttings of vines.
- The operation of removing a stone from the bladder.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.