Chatsab means “cut” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2672 — kataraomai (“curse”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2672 חָצַב חָצֵב (chatsab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chatsab (khaw-tsab') (or chatseb {khaw-tsabe'}) v. 1. to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material) 2. (by implication) to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave It has 22 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include hewed, stone, hew, wood, and heweth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
chatsab (khaw-tsab') (or chatseb {khaw-tsabe'}) v. 1. to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material) 2. (by implication) to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave [a primitive root] KJV: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2672. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to hew
Usage: 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chatsab, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2672.
And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
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Chatsab (Strong's H2672) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cut". chatsab (khaw-tsab') (or chatseb {khaw-tsabe'}) v. 1. to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material) 2. (by implication) to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H2672 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2672 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hewed, stone, hew, wood, heweth, and cut. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.