Hewing
מַחְצֵבStrong’s H4274machtsev (mach-tsev)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machtsev is the Hebrew word usually translated “hewing”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Hewing, hewnof stones
How it's translated
- hewing 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַחְצֵב machtsev · hewing
1) hewing, hewn 1a) of stones
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hewing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEW'ING, participle present
tense Cutting and making smooth or even; chopping; hacking; forming by the chisel.
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.