# H2673 חָצָה

חָצָה (châtsâh), Strong’s H2673: to cut or split in two; to halve KJV: divide, [idiom] live out half, reach to the midst, participle. Occurs 15 times.

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*châtsâh* — to cut or split in two; to halve

KJV: divide, [idiom] live out half, reach to the midst, participle

Occurs 15 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָצָה vb. divide
- Qal
- 1 divide
- 2 shall not halve their days, i.e. enjoy even half of the normal number
- Niph. be divided

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 32:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=8) — Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the…
- [Genesis 33:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=1) — Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the…
- [Exodus 21:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=35) — “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and…
- [Numbers 31:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=27) — and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
- [Numbers 31:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=42) — Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
- [Judges 7:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/7?v=16) — He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them shofars and empty…
- [Judges 9:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=43) — He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the…
- [2 Kings 2:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/2?v=8) — Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters; and they were divided here and there, so that they…
- [2 Kings 2:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/2?v=14) — He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?”…
- [Isaiah 30:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=28) — His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of…