To hew
חָצַבStrong’s H2672chatsav (cha-tsav)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatsav is the Hebrew word usually translated “stone-cutter”, “stone cutters” and “dug out”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;”
Meaning
- To dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason(Qal) · (Niphal) to be cut, be hewn, be engraved · (Hiphil) to hew into pieces, cut up into pieces · (Pual) to be cut from, be hewn from
How it's translated
- stone-cutter 3
- stone cutters 3
- dug out 2
- you dug 1
- you will dig 1
- and to cutters of 1
- to cut 1
- and he dug 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
13 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 8:9A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
- 1 Kings 5:15And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
- 2 Kings 12:12And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 22:15Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
- 2 Chronicles 2:2And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
Hebrew dictionary
חָצַב chatsav · to hew
1) to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hew out, dig 1a2) to hew 1a2a) stone 1a2b) wood 1a3) to hew in pieces (metaph.) 1a4) to divide, cleave 1b) (Niphal) to be cut, be hewn, be engraved 1c) (Hiphil) to hew into pieces, cut up into pieces 1d) (Pual) to be cut from, be hewn from
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hew” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEW, verb transitive
preterit tense hewed; participle passive hewed or hewn.
- To cut with an ax, or other like instrument, for the purpose of making an even surface or side; as, to hew timber.
- To chop; to cut; to hack; as, to hew in pieces.
- To cut with a chisel; to make smooth; as, to hew stone.
- To form or shape with an edged instrument; with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Isaiah 22:16
All definitions
- To form laboriously.
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.