חָצַץchâtsats
חָצַן: divide
Pronunciation: khaw-tsats' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2686
Meanings
Qal: i.e. dividing (themselves) into companies or swarms (Proverbs 30:27)
Pi`el: see II. חצץ
Pu`al: they have been cut in two, (figurative for curtailed) (Job 21:21)
חצץ: Pi`el: archers (Judges 5:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Judges 5:11 Listen to the village musicians gathered at the watering holes. They recount the righteous victories of the Lord and the victories of his villagers in Israel. Then the people of the Lord marched down to the city gates.
- Job 21:21 For they will not care what happens to their family after they are dead.
- Proverbs 30:27 Locusts—they have no king, but they march in formation.
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).