חָצַבchâtsab

Meanings

Same root

• מַחְצֵבmachtsêb · H4274properly, a hewing; concretely, a quarry

Where it appears

Appears 25 times in the Bible.

• Deuteronomy 6:11 The houses will be richly stocked with goods you did not produce. You will draw water from cisterns you did not dig, and you will eat from vineyards and olive trees you did not plant. When you have eaten your fill in this land,
• Deuteronomy 8:9 It is a land where food is plentiful and nothing is lacking. It is a land where iron is as common as stone, and copper is abundant in the hills.
• 1 Kings 5:15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers, 80,000 quarry workers in the hill country,
• 2 Kings 12:12 the masons, and the stonecutters. They also used the money to buy the timber and the finished stone needed for repairing the Lord’s Temple, and they paid any other expenses related to the Temple’s restoration.
• 1 Chronicles 22:2 So David gave orders to call together the foreigners living in Israel, and he assigned them the task of preparing finished stone for building the Temple of God.
• 1 Chronicles 22:15 You have a large number of skilled stonemasons and carpenters and craftsmen of every kind.