H2686 חָצַץ

חָצַץ (châtsats), Strong’s H2686: properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); to shoot an arrow KJV: archer, [idiom] bands, cut off in the midst.. Occurs 3…

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châtsats — properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); to shoot an arrow

KJV: archer, [idiom] bands, cut off in the midst.

Derived from חֵץ chêts (https://besorah.bible/word/H2671) (a piercer, i.e. an arrow)

Occurs 3 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חצץ] vb. denom. only Pi. Pt. Ju 5:11 archers
- חָצַץ vb
- [חָצַץ] vb. divide
- Qal of locusts; i.e. dividing (themselves) into companies or swarms.
- Pi. v.
- Pu. the number of his months, they have been cut in two (fig. for curtailed).

Where it occurs
- Judges 5:11 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=11) — Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse the LORD’s righteous acts, the…
- Proverbs 30:27 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/30?v=27) — The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.
- Job 21:21 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/21?v=21) — For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?