Hebrew

To hew

שָׁסַףStrong’s H8158

shasaph (sha-saph)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Shasaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “cut to pieces”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15:33 KJV

Meaning

(Piel) to hew in pieces, cut in piecesmeaning uncertain

How it's translated

and he cut to pieces 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

1 Samuel 1

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

שָׁסַף shasaph · to hew

1) (Piel) to hew in pieces, cut in pieces 1a) meaning uncertain

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.