chatav · cut wood

What it means

chatav (חָטַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut wood”.

Cut or chop wood.

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. To chop wood, fell trees.
2. Skillfully shaped, like the corners of a palace.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cutters ×3
• cut ×2
• woodcutters ×2
• carved ×1
• one who cuts ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Deuteronomy 19:5

  as when someone goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off from the wood and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live,

• Deuteronomy 29:11

  your little ones, your wives, and your resident alien who is in the midst of your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

• Joshua 9:21

  The chiefs said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the community, just as the chiefs had spoken to them.

• Joshua 9:23

  Now you are cursed, and there shall not be cut off from among you slaves, and cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my Elohim.”

• Joshua 9:27

  And Joshua made them, on that day, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the community and for the altar of YHWH, to this day, at the place that he would choose.

• 2 Chronicles 2:10

  And look, to the woodcutters, to those who cut the trees, to your servants, I give twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”

• Psalms 144:12

  so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth, our daughters like corners carved in the pattern of a palace;

• Jeremiah 46:22

  Her sound is like a serpent that goes off; for with an army they march, and with axes they come against her, like woodcutters.

• Ezekiel 39:10

  And they will not carry wood from the field nor cut wood from the forests, for with the weapons they will make fires; and they will despoil those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares Adonai YHWH.