Strong's #2672: chatsab (pronounced khaw-tsab')

or chatseb {khaw-tsabe'}; a primitive root ; to cut or carve (wood), stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave:--cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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châtsab / châtsêb

1) to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to hew out, dig

1a2) to hew

1a2a) stone

1a2b) wood

1a3) to hew in pieces (metaphorically)

1a4) to divide, cleave

1b) (Niphal) to be cut, be hewn, be engraved

1c) (Hiphil) to hew into pieces, cut up into pieces

1d) (Pual) to be cut from, be hewn from

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

 

Deuteronomy 6:11: "thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards"
Deuteronomy 6:11: "and wells which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which"
Deuteronomy 8:9: "stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass."
1 Kings 5:15: "burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;"
2 Kings 12:12: "And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair"
1 Chronicles 22:2: "were in the land of Israel; masons to hew wrought stones to build"
1 Chronicles 22:2: "of Israel; masons to hew wrought stones to build the house"
1 Chronicles 22:15: "Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber,"
2 Chronicles 2:2: "to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand"
2 Chronicles 2:18: "them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers and three thousand and six"
2 Chronicles 24:12: "of the house and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house"
2 Chronicles 26:10: "Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had"
Ezra 3:7: "They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon,"
Nehemiah 9:25: "goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees"
Job 19:24: " That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!"
Psalms 29:7: "The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire."
Proverbs 9:1: "Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:"
Isaiah 5:2: "a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes,"
Isaiah 10:15: "Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh"
Isaiah 22:16: "and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, a sepulcher"
Isaiah 22:16: "thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, as he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, and that graveth a habitation"
Isaiah 51:1: "look unto whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged."
Isaiah 51:9: "Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"
Jeremiah 2:13: "me the fountain of living and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that"
Hosea 6:5: "Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments"