Châṭab — H2404

Definition

verb

to chop or carve wood

1. to cut, gather
1. (Qal) to cut, gather (wood)
2. (Pual) to cut, carve

Usually translated as

hew, hewer, cut down, polish

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• ergázomai (G2038)
• kóptō (G2875)
• synágō (G4863)

Occurrences

Châṭab occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (2), Joshua (3), 2 Chronicles (1), Psalms (1), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Deuteronomy 19:5 — As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew (לַחְטֹ֣ב) wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
• Deuteronomy 29:11 — Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer (מֵחֹטֵ֣ב) of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
• Joshua 9:21 — And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers (חֹטְבֵ֨י) of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
• Joshua 9:23 — Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers (וְחֹטְבֵ֥י) of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
• Joshua 9:27 — And Joshua made them that day hewers (חֹטְבֵ֥י) of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
• 2 Chronicles 2:10 — And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers (לַֽחֹטְבִ֣ים) that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
• Psalms 144:12 — That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished (מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת) after the similitude of a palace:
• Jeremiah 46:22 — The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers (כְּחֹטְבֵ֖י) of wood.
• Ezekiel 39:10 — So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down (יַחְטְבוּ֙) any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.