חָצַב
châtsab · khaw-tsab'
to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
Lexicon
Derivation: or חָצֵב; a primitive root;
to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
- to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material)
- by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › to pursue the straight path › the house, what is within
To separate and protect that works to pursue the straight path of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָצַב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
25 occurrences · 25 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- digged2 · 8%
- hewers2 · 8%
- masons2 · 8%
- to hew2 · 8%
- which thou diggedst1 · 4%
- thou mayest dig1 · 4%
- and hewers1 · 4%
- to be hewers1 · 4%
- and digged1 · 4%
- also unto the masons1 · 4%
- that they were graven1 · 4%
- divideth1 · 4%
- she hath hewn out1 · 4%
- of it, and also made1 · 4%
- itself against him that heweth1 · 4%
- what hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out1 · 4%
- as he that heweth him out1 · 4%
- whence ye are hewn1 · 4%
- art thou not it that hath cut1 · 4%
- and hewed them out1 · 4%
- therefore have i hewed1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.