# חָצַץ (chatsats)

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

Strong’s H2686. 3 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); to shoot an arrow

King James renderings: archer, [idiom] bands, cut off in the midst.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chatsats-h2686

## Occurrences

- [Judges 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/11) — They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD,…
- [Job 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/21) — For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
- [Proverbs 30:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/27) — The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;