Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2404
חָטַב
cha.tav · “to chop”
Used 9 times across 6 books
Definition
1) to cut, gather
1a) (Qal) to cut, gather (wood)
1b) (Pual) to cut, carve
1a) (Qal) to cut, gather (wood)
1b) (Pual) to cut, carve
Where it appears
Deuteronomy2
Joshua3
2 Chronicles1
Psalms1
Jeremiah1
Ezekiel1
In the text
Deuteronomy 19:5As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:Deuteronomy 29:10Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,Joshua 9:21And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.Joshua 9:23Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.Joshua 9:27And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.2 Chronicles 2:9Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.Psalms 144:12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:Jeremiah 46:22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.Ezekiel 39:10So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.
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