Lexical Summary chatab: to cut or gather wood Original Word: חַָטַבTransliteration: chatab Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tab') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cut or gather wood Meaning: to cut or gather wood Strong's Concordance cut down, hewer, polish A primitive root; to chop or carve wood -- cut down, hew(-er), polish. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2404. chatab I. [חָטַב] verb cut or gather wood, usually firewood (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic firewood, collect firewood (see Wetzst in DePsalm 144:12); Ethiopic cut (or gather) firewood) — Qal Imperfect יַחְטְבוּ Ezekiel 39:10; Infinitive לַחְטֹב Deuteronomy 19:5; Participle חֹטֵב 29:10; plural חֹטְבִים2 Chronicles 2:9; construct חֹטְבֵי Joshua 9:21 3t.; passive plural feminine חֲטֻבוֺת Proverbs 7:16 — cut or gather wood, followed by accusative Deuteronomy 19:5; 29:10 ("" מים שׁאב); compare Ezekiel 39:10 מןהֿיערים (object in preceding clause); 2 Chronicles 2:9 ("" הָעֵצִים כֹּרְתֵי); Participle construct ׳ח עצים Jeremiah 46:22, and ("" מַיִם שֹׁאֲבֵי) Joshua 9:21, 23, 27. Pu`al Participle מְחֻטָּבוֺת Psalm 144:12 meaning dubious; perhaps hewn (so, in substance, Thes MV SS Ew Che Bae; see however II. חטב), of corner-pillars (זָוִיּוֺת see זָוִית above), simile of beautiful, stately daughters. II. חטב (√of following; compare Arabic be of the colour , i.e. turbid, dusky, mixed with yellowish red, etc.; Aramaic Participle variegated ᵑ6 2 Samuel 13:19). |
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