Strong's Definition
a primitive root (compare 2673); properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); as denom. from 2671, to shoot an arrow
KJV Usage: archer, X bands, cut off in the midst
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָצַץ (cha.tsats) — to divide. 1) to divide 1a) (Qal) to divide 1b) (Piel) to divide 1c) (Pual) to be cut off, be finished
חָצַץ (cha.tsats) — to shoot. 2) to shoot arrows 2a) (Piel) archer (participle)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · חֵץ · חֵצִי · חָצָץ · חַצְצֹן תָּמָר
Non-Whole | verb qal
to march in formation = action by which insects divides themselves into orderly groups ◄ like an army
Non-Whole | verb pi
to distribute = to divide an object into portions and share them out among a group of people
Think | verb pu'al
to allot (a number or months) = action by which someone determines an amount of time for humans to perform an event
1 JDG 5:11 -HOTTP-A MT KB CEV | BDB NJPS "archers" | RSV NRSV "musicians" | NIV "singers" | NJB "shepherds" | REB "merrymakers" | GNT "noisy crowds" 2 JOB 21:21 This passage is somewhat obscure. Most translations have translated this occurrence of חצץ as "to cut off, which may fit the context well. Nevertheless the interpretation chosen here is closer to the way this verb is used in other passages.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[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).
base
[חצץ] vb. denom. only Pi. Pt. Ju 5:11 archers ref