Gravel
חָצָץStrong’s H2687chatsats (cha-tsats)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatsats is the Hebrew word usually translated “gravel”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.”
Meaning
- Gravel
How it's translated
- gravel 1
- with gravel 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חָצָץ chatsats · gravel
gravel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gravel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRAV'EL, noun
- Small stones or fragments of stone, or very small pebbles, larger than the particles of sand, but often intermixed with them.
- In medicine, small calculous concretions in the kidneys and bladder.
All definitions and other forms of “gravel”
GRAV'EL, verb transitive
To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
- To stick in the sand.
- To puzzle; to stop; to embarrass.
- To hurt the foot of a horse, by gravel lodged under the shoe.
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.