gazit · cut stone

What it means

gazit (גָּזִית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut stone”.

Hewn stone, cut square.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Stone cut to size.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hewn stone ×9
• hewn ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 1 Kings×5
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1

• Exodus 20:25

  And if you make me an altar of stones, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you lift your tool on it, you profane it.

• 1 Kings 5:17

  And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stones.

• 1 Kings 6:36

  And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar.

• 1 Kings 7:9

  All these were of costly stones, by the measures of hewn stone, sawn with the saw inside and outside, from the foundation to the copings, and from outside to the great court.

• 1 Kings 7:11

  And above were costly stones by the measures of hewn stone, and cedar.

• 1 Kings 7:12

  And the great court all around had three rows of hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar, as also for the inner court of the house of YHWH and the portico of the house.

• 1 Chronicles 22:2

  David gave orders to gather the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to cut hewn stones to build the house of Elohim.

• Isaiah 9:10

  “Bricks have fallen, but with hewn stone we will build; sycamores have been cut down, but cedars we will put in their place.”

• Lamentations 3:9

  He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made crooked my paths.

• Ezekiel 40:42

  And four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, the length, a cubit and a half, and the width, a cubit and a half, and the height, one cubit; on them they would set the utensils with which they would slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

• Amos 5:11

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take a levy of grain from him, houses of hewn stone you have built, but you will not live in them; pleasant vineyards you have planted, but you will not drink their wine.