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# hew

«hew» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To cut or chop wood or stone with a sharp tool or axe** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hews, hewing, hewed, hewn or hewed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cut or chop wood or stone with a sharp tool or axe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#m1)

2) (old use) To cut down or chop through with a sword or axe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: God commands that Moses hew a second pair of stone tablets, and that idols and pillars of other nations be cut down. It can also mean to cut to pieces with a sword, as Samuel did to Agag, and the prophet uses it for God cutting down the sea monster Rahab. Interpretation: The rabbis note that Moses cut the second tablets himself, while God made the first. This is read as a sign that human effort is needed to make a covenant last. Isaiah's Rahab is read as a picture of Egypt, defeated at the sea. In the primary lessons: in tales, workers or knights cut down trees or chop through a bridge or gate

### examples

- So I made an ark of acacia-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. (Torah DEU.10.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x1)
- But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. (Torah DEU.7.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x2)
- At that time the LORD said unto me: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me into the mount; and make thee an ark of wood. (Torah DEU.10.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x3)
- And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. (Prophets 1SA.15.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x4)
- Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon? (Prophets ISA.51.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x5)
- for he took away the strange altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim; (Writings 2CH.14.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x6)
- The woodcutter hews the logs for the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x7)
- They hewed away at the bridge beams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x8)
- Hew down the bridge quickly! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/#x9)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.419/)
- [And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.187/)
- [And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.224/)
- [And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.239/)
- [Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.230/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hew» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hew/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.