חָצַץ
chatsats · divide, shoot arrows
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2686 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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chatsats (חָצַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “divide, shoot arrows”.
Divide, distribute; cut off. In Job 21:21, the months of life that are cut off; in Proverbs 30:27, to advance in ranks. In Judges 5:11 it is disputed whether it means "archers" or "those who divide."
How to say it
cha·tsats
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
- To cut or share out into parts, groups or stretches.
- Those who shoot arrows from a distance with the bow.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- archers ×1
- cut off ×1
- ranks ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 5:11
Away from the sound of the archers, among the watering places, there they recount the righteous acts of YHWH, the righteous acts of his villages in Israel. Then the people of YHWH went down to the gates.
- Job 21:21
For what interest does he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
- Proverbs 30:27
the locust has no king, and it goes out all of it in ranks;