Lexicon chatab: to cut or gather wood Original Word: חָטַבPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chatab Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tab') Short Definition: wood NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto cut or gather wood NASB Translationchops your wood (1), cut (1), fashioned (1), gather firewood (1), hewers of wood (3), woodcutters (1), woodsmen (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [ חָטַב] verb cut or gather wood, usually firewood (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic  firewood,  collect firewood (see Wetzst in De Ps 144:12); Ethiopic  cut (or gather) firewood) — Qal Imperfect יַחְטְבוּ Ezekiel 39:10; Infinitive לַחְטֹב Deuteronomy 19:5; Participle חֹטֵב Deuteronomy 29:10; plural חֹטְבִים2Chron 2:9; construct חֹטְבֵי Joshua 9:21 3t.; passive plural feminine חֲטֻבוֺת Proverbs 7:16 — cut or gather wood, followed by accusative Deuteronomy 19:5; Deuteronomy 29:10 ("" שׁאב מים); compare Ezekiel 39:10 מןהֿיערים (object in preceding clause); 2 Chron 2:9 ("" כֹּרְתֵי הָעֵצִים); Participle construct עצים ׳ח Jeremiah 46:22, and ("" שֹׁאֲבֵי מַיִם) Joshua 9:21,23,27. Pu`al Participle מְחֻטָּבוֺת Psalm 144:12 meaning dubious; perhaps hewn (so, in substance, Thes MV SS Ew Che Bae; see however II. חטב), of corner-pillars (זָוִיּוֺת see זָוִית above), simile of beautiful, stately daughters. II. חטב (√of following; compare Arabic  be of the colour  , i.e. turbid, dusky, mixed with yellowish red, etc.; Aramaic Participle  variegated ᵑ6 2 Samuel 13:19).
Strong's cut down, hewer, polish A primitive root; to chop or carve wood -- cut down, hew(-er), polish. |
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