Lexical Summary chatsab or chatseb: to hew, hew out, cleave Original Word: חָצַבTransliteration: chatsab or chatseb Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tsab') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to hew, hew out, cleave Meaning: to cut, carve, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave Strong's Concordance cut, dig, divide, grave, hew out made, mason Or chatseb {khaw-tsabe'}; a primitive root; to cut or carve (wood), stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave -- cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2672. chatsab or chatseb [חָצַב] חָצֵב verb hew, hew out, cleave (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic חֲצַב; SI4. 6 participle plural החצבם; compare Phoenician מחצב = Hebrew id.) — Qal Perfect חָצֵב Isaiah 5:2; חָֽצְבָה Proverbs 9:1; חָצַבְתִּי Hosea 6:5, etc.; Imperfect וַיַּחְצֹב2 Chronicles 26:10; 2 masculine singular תַּחְצֹב Deuteronomy 8:9; Infinitive construct לַחְצֹב Jeremiah 2:13; לַחְצוֺב 1 Chronicles 22:2; Participle active חֹצֵב Isaiah 10:15 4t.; construct חֹצְבִי 22:16; חֹצְבִים 1 Chronicles 22:2-3t.; חֹצְבֵי 2 Kings 12:13; passive חֲצוּבִים Deuteronomy 6:11; Nehemiah 9:25; — 1 hew out, (dig), wine-vat יֶקֶב Isaiah 5:2; sepulchre (קֶבֶר) 22:16 (twice in verse); cisterns בֹּרוֺת Deuteronomy 6:11 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 26:10; Nehemiah 9:25, compare Jeremiah 2:13; of mining תַּת ׳מהרריה נחשׁת Deuteronomy 8:9 out of its mountains thou mayst hew out copper. 2. a. hew stone 1 Chronicles 22:2; metaphor of pillars Proverbs 9:1 (subject wisdom); elsewhere participle, hewer of stone 2 Kings 12:13; 1 Chronicles 22:2, 15 (see SI4.6above); probably 1 Kings 5:29; 2 Chronicles 2:1; 2:17 (בָּהָר׳ח see Be), compare 24:12; Ezra 3:7. b. apparently hew wood Isaiah 10:15 ׳ח בוֺ (i.e. בְּגַרְזֶן). 3 metaph. hew in pieces Hosea 6:5 figurative of ׳י attacking people by agency of prophets ("" הֲרַגְתִּים); divide, cleave subject ׳יs voice Psalm 29:7 object אשׁ להבות, i.e. the thunder of his voice sends forked lightnings (but on text compare Che and critical note) Niph`al Imperfect יֵחָצְבוּן be cut, hewn, graven (words on rock) Job 19:24. Pu`al Perfect חֻצַּבְתֶּם Isaiah 51:1 figurative, hewn out of rock (of Israel's origin; "" נֻקַּר). Hiph`il Participle מַחֲצֶ֫בֶת Isaiah 51:9 hew in pieces = Qal 3, figurative of destroying רהב = Egypt (compare Psalm 89:11). |
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