חָצַב (cha.tsav) means “to hew” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: khaw-tsab' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
חָצַב · cha.tsav · to hew
1) to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hew out, dig 1a2) to hew 1a2a) stone 1a2b) wood 1a3) to hew in pieces (metaph.) 1a4) to divide, cleave 1b) (Niphal) to be cut, be hewn, be engraved 1c) (Hiphil) to hew into pieces, cut up into pieces 1d) (Pual) to be cut from, be hewn from
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or חָצֵב; a primitive root; to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
KJV glosses: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| stonecutters | 6 |
| already dug | 1 |
| and dug | 1 |
| and stonecutters | 1 |
| and they have dug | 1 |
| are ready to be mined | 1 |
| dig | 1 |
| dug out | 1 |
| from which you were cut | 1 |
| i have hewn them | 1 |
| or chiseled | 1 |
| she has carved out | 1 |
| strikes | 1 |
| the one who swings | 1 |
| to carve out | 1 |
| to chisel | 1 |
| to pieces | 1 |
| to prepare | 1 |
| to the masons | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| hewers | 3 |
| digged | 2 |
| masons | 2 |
| to hew | 2 |
| also unto the masons | 1 |
| and digged | 1 |
| and hewers | 1 |
| divideth | 1 |
| he that heweth him out | 1 |
| hewed them out | 1 |
| itself against him that heweth | 1 |
| of it and also made | 1 |
| she hath hewn out | 1 |
| that they were graven | 1 |
| therefore have i hewed | 1 |
| thou mayest dig | 1 |
| thou not it that hath cut | 1 |
| what hast thou here and whom hast thou here that thou hast hewed thee out | 1 |
| which thou diggedst | 1 |
| ye are hewn | 1 |
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with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
Read word by worda land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
Read word by wordSolomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.29
masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.13
So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.
Read word by wordYou also have many workers: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and men skilled in every kind of work—
Read word by wordSo he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.1
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.17
Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordSince he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
Read word by wordThey gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
Read word by wordThey captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.
Read word by wordby an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
Read word by wordThe voice of the LORD strikes with flames of fire.
Read word by wordWisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
Read word by wordHe dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
Read word by wordDoes an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
Read word by wordWhat are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
Read word by word“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
Read word by wordAwake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
Read word by word“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Read word by wordTherefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
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