# H2404 חָטַב

חָטַב (châṭab), Strong’s H2404: to chop or carve wood KJV: cut down, hew(-er), polish.. Occurs 9 times.

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*châṭab* — to chop or carve wood

KJV: cut down, hew(-er), polish.

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָטַב] vb. cut or gather wood, usu. firewood
- Qal cut or gather wood
- Pu. meaning dub.; perhaps hewn

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 19:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/19?v=5) — as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and…
- [Deuteronomy 29:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=10) — your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood…
- [Joshua 9:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=21) — The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation…
- [Joshua 9:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=23) — Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for…
- [Joshua 9:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/9?v=27) — That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the LORD’s altar to this day…
- [Jeremiah 46:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/46?v=22) — Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
- [Ezekiel 39:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/39?v=10) — so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with…
- [Psalms 144:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/144?v=12) — Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
- [2 Chronicles 2:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/2?v=9) — Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand…