To chop
חָטַבStrong’s H2404chatav (cha-tav)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatav is the Hebrew word usually translated “cutters of”, “cut” and “from cutter of”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:”
Meaning
- To cut, gather(Qal) to cut, gather (wood) · (Pual) to cut, carve
How it's translated
- cutters of 2
- to cut 1
- from cutter of 1
- and cutters of 1
- to the wood-cutters 1
- carved 1
- like cutters of 1
- they will cut 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 29:11Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
- Joshua 9:21And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
- Joshua 9:23Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
- Joshua 9:27And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
- Psalms 144:12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Hebrew dictionary
חָטַב chatav · to chop
1) to cut, gather 1a) (Qal) to cut, gather (wood) 1b) (Pual) to cut, carve
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “chop” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHOP, verb transitive
- To cut off or separate, by striking with a sharp instrument, either by a single blow or by repeated blows; as, to chop off a head; to chop wood.
- To cut into small pieces; to mince; as, to chop meat; to chop straw.
- To grand and mince with the teeth; to devour eagerly; with up; as, to chop up an entertainment.
- To break or open into chinks or fissures; to crack; to chap. [See Chap.]
All definitions and other forms of “chop”
CHOP, verb intransitive
- To buy, or rather to barter, truck, exchange.
- To exchange; to put one thing in the place of another; as, to chop and change our friends.
- To bandy; to altercate; to return one word or thing for another.
CHOP, verb intransitive
To turn, vary, change or shift suddenly; as in the seamans phrase, the wind chops, or chops about. [The various senses of this verb seem to center in that of thrusting, driving, or a sudden motion or exertion of force.]
CHOP, noun
- A piece chopped off; a small piece of meat; as a mutton chop
- A crack or cleft.
- The chap; the jaw; plural The jaws; the mouth; the sides of a rivers mouth or channel. [See Chap.]
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.