chatsav · hew, cut

What it means

chatsav (חָצַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hew, cut”.

Cut stone to make a cistern or quarry blocks; also to carve.

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 shape rock, or carve wells or tombs in it.
2. To cut, split, cut to pieces.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stonecutters ×8
• cut ×2
• dig ×2
• dug ×2
• hewed out ×2
• I have hewn them ×1
• hew out ×1
• hewing ×1
• hews ×1
• over the one who chops ×1
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Deuteronomy 6:11

  houses full of all good things that you did not fill, cisterns dug that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant— and you eat and are satisfied,

• Deuteronomy 8:9

  a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose hills you will dig out copper.

• 1 Kings 5:15

  And Solomon had seventy thousand burden bearers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,

• 2 Kings 12:12

  and to the masons and to the stonecutters, and to buy timber and quarried stones to repair the breaches of the house of YHWH, and for all that was spent on the house to repair it.

• 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.

• 1 Chronicles 22:15

  You have with you in abundance those who do the work: stonecutters, and workers in stone and wood, and all who are skilled in every kind of work.

• 2 Chronicles 2:2

  Solomon counted seventy thousand men as carriers, and eighty thousand men as stonecutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred who directed them.

• 2 Chronicles 2:18

  He made of them seventy thousand carriers, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred who directed, to make the people work.

• 2 Chronicles 24:12

  The king and Jehoiada gave it to those doing the work of the service of the house of YHWH; and they were hiring stonecutters and craftsmen to renew the house of YHWH, and also craftsmen in iron and bronze to repair the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fertile fields, for he loved the ground.

• Ezra 3:7

  And they gave money to the stonecutters and to the craftsmen, and food and drink and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the permission of Cyrus king of Persia for them.

• Nehemiah 9:25

  And they captured fortified cities and fertile ground, and they possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug, vineyards and olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate and were satisfied and grew fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

• Job 19:24

  that with a stylus of iron and lead forever in the rock they were carved.

• Psalms 29:7

  The voice of YHWH hews flames of fire.

• Proverbs 9:1

  Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her pillars, seven.

• Isaiah 5:2

  He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a tower in its midst and also hewed out a winepress in it; and he waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced sour grapes.

• Isaiah 10:15

  Shall the axe boast over the one who chops with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against the one who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it, as if a staff should lift one who is not wood!

• Isaiah 22:16

  ‘What do you have here, and whom do you have here, that you have hewn for yourself here a grave?’ (hewing on high his grave, carving in the crag a dwelling for himself).

• Isaiah 51:1

  “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek YHWH: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the hollow of the quarry from which you were dug.

• Isaiah 51:9

  Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of YHWH; awake as in the days of old, the generations of the ages. Are you not the one who cut to pieces Rahab, who pierced the sea monster?

• Jeremiah 2:13

  For two evils my people has done: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold the water.

• Hosea 6:5

  Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have killed them by the words of my mouth; and your judgments are like light that goes out.

And 3 more times.