Lexicon chatsats: archer Original Word: חָצַץPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chatsats Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tsats') Short Definition: archer Brown-Driver-Briggs חָצַן verb divide (Late Hebrew makes a partition; Assyrian —aƒâƒu, cut in two, Zim BP 24 n.; Ethiopic  curtail, diminish) — Qal Participle חֹצֵץ intransitive Proverbs 30:27 of locusts כלו ׳ויצא ח; i.e. dividing (themselves) into companies or swarms. Pi`el Participle מְחַצְצִים see II. חצץ. Pu`al Perfect מספר חדשׁיו חֻצָּ֑צוּ Job 21:21 the number of his months, they have been cut in two (figurative for curtailed). II. [חצץ] verb denominative only Pi`el Participle מְחַצְצִים Judges 5:11 archers (> those dividing spoil, since no object expressed and חלק more suitable for such meaning) חצצר, חֲצֹצְרָה see IV. חצר. I. חצר (√ of following; compare Arabic  encompass, surround; Ethiopic  surround, enclose by wall, etc.;  enclosure; Late Hebrew חָצֵר court, Phoenician חצר id., Syriac  , id.)
Strong's archer, bands, cut off in the midst A primitive root (compare chatsah); properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); as denom. From chets, to shoot an arrow -- archer, X bands, cut off in the midst. see HEBREW chatsah see HEBREW chets |
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