# חָטַב (chatav)

Israeli respelling: cha-tav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2404. 9 Old Testament occurrences.

to chop or carve wood

King James renderings: cut down, hew(-er), polish.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chatav-h2404

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/19/5) — As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the…
- [Deuteronomy 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/11) — Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
- [Joshua 9:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/21) — And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the prince…
- [Joshua 9:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/23) — Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house…
- [Joshua 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/27) — And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day,…
- [2 Chronicles 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/10) — And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measure…
- [Psalms 144:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/12) — That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a pala…
- [Jeremiah 46:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/22) — The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
- [Ezekiel 39:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/10) — So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and t…