Strong's Definition
or chatseb {khaw-tsabe'}; a primitive root ; to cut or carve (wood), stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
KJV Usage: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָצַב (cha.tsav) — to hew. 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 (metaph.) 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Impact | verb qal, verb pu'al | ≈ חטב · נקר
to hew, to hew out, to dig, to cut out, to dress, to mine = action by which humans strike an object repeatedly with an axe, chisel, or other sharp implement, ► in order to alter its shape and so create a new object out of it
DEU 6:11 · DEU 6:11 · DEU 8:9 · 2KI 12:13 · 1CH 22:2 · 2CH 26:10 · NEH 9:25 · PSA 29:7 · PRO 9:1 · ISA 5:2 · ISA 10:15 · ISA 22:16 · ISA 22:16 · ISA 51:1 · JER 2:13
Dead | verb hif
to strike, to kill = causative action by which deities strike an animal repeatedly with a sharp or deadly object so that it dies
Unsafe | verb qal
to cut = causative action by which deities cause non-physical hurt to humans, ◄ as if cutting them with a sharp implement
Professions | verb qal
quarrier, stonecutter = person whose job it is to cut stones in a quarry and get them ready for construction
1KI 5:29 · 1CH 22:2 · 1CH 22:15 · 2CH 2:1 · 2CH 2:17 · 2CH 24:12 · EZR 3:7
Write | verb nif
to chisel, to incise = action by which humans engrave words in stone with the use of a sharp object
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[חָצַב] חָצֵב vb. hew, hew out, cleave Qal hew out, (dig)
hew stone
appar. hew wood
metaph. hew in pieces
Niph. be cut, hewn, graven (words on rock)
Pu. fig., hewn out of rock
Hiph. hew in pieces
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