# H2672 חָצַב

חָצַב (châtsab), Strong’s H2672: to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave KJV: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason…

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*châtsab* — to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave

KJV: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.

Occurs 25 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָצַב] חָצֵב vb. hew, hew out, cleave
- Qal
- 1 hew out, (dig)
- a hew stone
- b appar. hew wood
- 3 metaph. hew in pieces
- Niph. be cut, hewn, graven (words on rock)
- Pu. fig., hewn out of rock
- Hiph. hew in pieces

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 6:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/6?v=11) — and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and…
- [Deuteronomy 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=9) — a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron…
- [1 Kings 5:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=29) — Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains,
- [2 Kings 12:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/12?v=13) — and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s house…
- [Isaiah 5:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=2) — He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also…
- [Isaiah 10:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=15) — Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod…
- [Isaiah 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/22?v=16) — ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high…
- [Isaiah 51:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/51?v=1) — “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to…
- [Isaiah 51:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/51?v=9) — Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t…
- [Jeremiah 2:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=13) — “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for…