חָצַב

Deuteronomy 6:11 חֲצוּבִים֙ חָצַ֔בְתָּ dug out, you dug

with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

Here: 'Hewn': quarried out of solid limestone. The word calls up the hard labour of stone-cutting, not digging in soft earth.

Deuteronomy 8:9 תַּחְצֹ֥ב you will dig

a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

1 Kings 5:15 חֹצֵ֥ב stone-cutter[s]

Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

2 Kings 12:12 וּלְחֹצְבֵ֣י and to [the] cutters of

masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.

1 Chronicles 22:2 חֹֽצְבִ֗ים לַחְצוֹב֙ stone cutters, to cut

So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.

1 Chronicles 22:15 חֹצְבִ֕ים stone cutters

You also have many workers: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and men skilled in every kind of work—

2 Chronicles 2:2 חֹצֵ֣ב stone-cutter[s]

So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

2 Chronicles 2:18 חֹצֵ֣ב stone-cutter[s]

Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

2 Chronicles 24:12 חֹצְבִ֣ים stone cutters

Then the king and Jehoiada would give the money to those who supervised the labor on the house of the LORD to hire stonecutters and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, as well as workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 26:10 וַיַּחְצֹב֙ and he dug

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

Ezra 3:7 לַחֹצְבִ֖ים to the masons

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

Nehemiah 9:25 חֲצוּבִ֜ים dug out

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

Here: "Hewn": cut out of rock, which was hard, slow labour that someone else had already done. Exact phrase from Deut 6:11.

Job 19:24 יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃ they will be engraved !

by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

Psalm 29:7 חֹצֵ֗ב [is] striking

The voice of the LORD strikes with flames of fire.

Proverbs 9:1 חָצְבָ֖ה she has hewn

Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.

Here: The ordinary verb for quarrying and cutting stone, or digging cisterns out of rock. Her pillars are cut stone, not wooden posts: costly, solid and lasting.

Isaiah 5:2 חָצֵ֣ב he dug out

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

Here: "He hewed." The word is used for quarrying stone and cutting cisterns. The verb form changes here, which together with "and also" puts weight on this last and hardest piece of work.

Isaiah 10:15 הַחֹצֵ֣ב the [one who] cuts

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

Here: 'The one who hews': the woodsman or stonecutter actually doing the work. Here it stands for the LORD.

Isaiah 22:16 חָצַ֧בְתָּ חֹצְבִ֤י you have dug out, digging out

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

Isaiah 51:1 חֻצַּבְתֶּ֔ם [which] you were dug

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

Here: "You were hewn." The passive points to an unnamed worker, implicitly God, who cut Israel out of that rock. The Hebrew has no "from which"; the clause simply sits beside "rock", and English supplies the link. (The supplied gloss "dug" belongs more naturally to word 14; this verb is the stonecutter's word.)

Isaiah 51:9 הַמַּחְצֶ֥בֶת who cut in pieces

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

Here: 'The one who hewed'. The verb belongs to the quarryman cutting blocks of stone. This form is used only here in the Bible. With 'the' in front it reads almost like a title: 'the Hewer of Rahab'.

Jeremiah 2:13 לַחְצֹ֤ב to dig

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Here: 'To hew', cutting into rock. This is quarrying, heavy labour in limestone. Grammatically it continues 'they forsook me': they left in order to hew, or they left and went off hewing.

Hosea 6:5 חָצַ֙בְתִּי֙ I will cut [them] in pieces

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.

Here: 'I hewed', the word for a quarryman cutting stone out of rock or a woodcutter chopping. No object is written. 'Them' is understood from the next verb. The form describes a completed action: God has already been doing this.