חָצַב châtsab — to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material)
Translated in the KJV as cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
or חָצֵב; a primitive root; to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave.
châtsab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 11Perfect (qatal) 5Participle (passive) 2Infinitive construct 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Wayyiqtol 1
And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Hiph'il
Participle (active) 1
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›