To divide
חָצָהStrong’s H2673chatsah (cha-tsah)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “divided”, “were divided” and “divide”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.”
Meaning
- To divide, cut in two, cut short, live half (of one's life)(Qal) · (Niphal) to be divided
How it's translated
- and he divided 3
- and they were divided 2
- and they will divide 1
- they will divide 1
- and you will divide 1
- he had divided 1
- and he divided them 1
- will they divide it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Numbers 2
- Judges 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 32:7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
- Genesis 33:1And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
- Exodus 21:35And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
- Numbers 31:27And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
- Numbers 31:42And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
- Judges 7:16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
Hebrew dictionary
חָצָה chatsah · to divide
1) to divide, cut in two, cut short, live half (of one's life) 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to divide 1a2) to half, cut in two 1b) (Niphal) to be divided
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “divide” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIVIDE, verb transitive
[Latin, to part. See the latter words.]
- To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces.“DIVIDE the living child in two” 1 Kings 3:25
- To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit.“Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters” Genesis 1:6
- To make partition of, among a number.“Ye shall divide the land by lot” Numbers 33:54
- To open; to cleave.
All definitions and other forms of “divide”
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.“There shall be five in one house divided, three against two--” Luke 12:52
- To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.“And he divided to them his living” Luke 15:12
- To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.
- To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.
DIVIDE, verb intransitive
- To part; to open; to cleave.
- To break friendship; as, brothers divide
- To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.
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.