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חָטַב H2404
H2404 is the Hebrew word חָטַב, transliterated châṭab and said khaw-tab'. The King James Version most often renders it hewers.
What it means
to chop or carve wood.
Where it comes from
a primitive root.
How the King James Version translates it
Across 9 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: cut down, hew(-er), polish.
Verses using חָטַב
All 9 verses, quoted in full.
Deuteronomy 19:5 · KJV
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew 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 · KJV
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
Joshua 9:21 · KJV
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
Joshua 9:23 · KJV
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Joshua 9:27 · KJV
And Joshua made them that day hewers 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 · KJV
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers 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.
Psalm 144:12 · KJV
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Jeremiah 46:22 · KJV
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
Ezekiel 39:10 · KJV
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down 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.
Common questions
What does Strong's H2404 mean?
H2404 is the Hebrew word חָטַב (châṭab), meaning to chop or carve wood.
How is H2404 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it hewers (5 times), hew (1 time), hewer (1 time), polished (1 time), neither cut down (1 time).
How many times does H2404 appear in the Bible?
חָטַב (châṭab) is tagged in 9 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H2404 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.
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