Definition

to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave

Etymology

or חָצֵב; a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• cut
• dig
• divide
• grave
• hew (out
• -er)
• made
• mason

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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