To hew
פָּסַלStrong’s H6458pasal (pa-sal)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pasal is the Hebrew word usually translated “cut out”, “cut to shape” and “has carved it”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.”
Meaning
- To cut, hew, hew into shape(Qal) to hew, hew out, quarry
How it's translated
- cut out 2
- and he cut out 1
- and i cut out 1
- and they cut to shape 1
- he has carved it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Habakkuk 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 34:4And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
- Deuteronomy 10:1At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
- Deuteronomy 10:3And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
- 1 Kings 5:18And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
- Habakkuk 2:18What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Hebrew dictionary
פָּסַל pasal · to hew
1) to cut, hew, hew into shape 1a) (Qal) to hew, hew out, quarry
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.