חָטַבchâṭab

cut or gather wood

Pronunciation: khaw-tab' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2404

Meanings

Qal: cut or gather (Ezekiel 39:10; Deuteronomy 19:5; Deuteronomy 29:10)

Pu`al: meaning dubious; perhaps hewn (Psalms 144:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 19:5 For example, suppose someone goes into the forest with a neighbor to cut wood. And suppose one of them swings an ax to chop down a tree, and the ax head flies off the handle, killing the other person. In such cases, the slayer may flee to one of the cities of refuge to live in safety.
  • Deuteronomy 29:11 Your little ones and your wives are with you, as well as the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.
  • Joshua 9:21 Let them live.” So they made them woodcutters and water carriers for the entire community, as the Israelite leaders directed.
  • Joshua 9:23 May you be cursed! From now on you will always be servants who cut wood and carry water for the house of my God.”
  • Joshua 9:27 But that day he made the Gibeonites the woodcutters and water carriers for the community of Israel and for the altar of the Lord—wherever the Lord would choose to build it. And that is what they do to this day.
  • 2 Chronicles 2:10 In payment for your woodcutters, I will send 100,000 bushels of crushed wheat, 100,000 bushels of barley, 110,000 gallons of wine, and 110,000 gallons of olive oil.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).