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title: חָטַב — cut wood · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָטַב (2404), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: cut wood. BDB 1906: vb. cut or gather wood. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָטַב

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«חָטַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cut wood** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 2404 · **BDB:** חָטַב

### Glosses

cutters (4); carved (1); cut (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cut wood [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2404/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. cut or gather wood [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2404/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut or gather wood, usually firewood (NH id.; Arabic حَطَبٌ firewood, حَطَبَ collect firewood (v. Wetzst in De ψ 144:12); Ethiopic ሐጠበ cut (or gather) firewood)— Impf. יַחְטְבוּ Ez 39:10; Inf. לַחְטֹב Dt 19:5; Pt. חֹטֵב Dt 29:10; pl. חֹטְבִים 2 Ch 2:9; cstr. חֹטְבֵי Jos 9:21 + 3 times; pass. pl. f. חֲטֻבוֹת Pr 7:16—cut or gather wood, sq. acc. Dt 19:5; 29:10 (‖ שׁאב מים); cf. Ez 39:10 מן־היערים (obj. in preceding cl.); 2 Ch 2:9 (‖ כֹּרְתֵי הָעֵצִים); Pt. cstr. ח׳ עצים Je 46:22, and (‖ שֹׁאֲבֵי מַיִם) Jos 9:21, 23, 27. Pt. מְחֻטָּבוֹת ψ 144:12 meaning dub.; perhaps hewn (so, in substance, Thes MV SS Ew Che Bae; v. however II. חטב), of corner-pillars (זָוִיּוֹת v. זָוִית p. 265 supr.), sim. of beautiful, stately daughters.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָטַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2404/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 144:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.12/)

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אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּנֵ֨ינוּ ׀ כִּנְטִעִים֮ מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים בִּֽנְעוּרֵ֫יהֶ֥ם בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת תַּבְנִ֥ית הֵיכָֽל׃

*Word for word:* that sons our \[will be\].like.plants full.grown in youth(s) their daughters our \[will be\].like.corners carved \[the\].structure of.a.palace

*JPS 1917:* We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;

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[Jeremiah 46:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.46.22/)

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קוֹלָ֖הּ כַּנָּחָ֣שׁ יֵלֵ֑ךְ כִּֽי־בְחַ֣יִל יֵלֵ֔כוּ וּבְקַרְדֻּמּוֹת֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔הּ כְּחֹטְבֵ֖י עֵצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* sound its \[is\].like (the) snake \[which\].it.goes (dm) in strength they.will.come and with axes they.will.come to it like cutters of.wood(s)

*JPS 1917:* The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

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