H2672–חָצַב–cha.tsav

And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

חֲצוּבִים֙ cha.tzu.Vim “dug out”חָצַ֔בְתָּ cha.Tzav.ta “you dug”

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

תַּחְצֹ֥ב tach.Tzo “you will dig”

Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

חֹצֵ֥ב cho.Tzev “stone-cutter[s]”

And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

וּלְחֹצְבֵ֣י (חֹצְבֵ֣י) cho.tze.Vei “[the] cutters of”

And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

חֹֽצְבִ֗ים cho.tze.Vim “stone cutters”לַחְצוֹב֙ (חְצוֹב֙) ch.tzOv “cut”

And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

חֹצְבִ֕ים cho.tze.Vim “stone cutters”

And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

חֹצֵ֣ב cho.Tzev “stone-cutter[s]”

Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

חֹצֵ֣ב cho.Tzev “stone-cutter[s]”

Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again.

חֹצְבִ֣ים cho.tze.Vim “stone cutters”

And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.

וַיַּחְצֹב֙ (יַּחְצֹב֙) i.yach.Tzo “he dug”

And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

לַחֹצְבִ֖ים (חֹצְבִ֖ים) cho.tze.Vim “masons”

And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good y

חֲצוּבִ֜ים cha.tzu.Vim “dug out”

And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃ (יֵחָצְבֽוּ) ye.cha.tze.Vu “they will be engraved”

At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen.

חֹצֵ֗ב cho.Tzev “[is] striking”

Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

חָצְבָ֖ה cha.tze.Vah “she has hewn”

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the

חָצֵ֣ב cha.Tzev “he dug out”

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

הַחֹצֵ֣ב (חֹצֵ֣ב) cho.Tzev “[one who] cuts”

Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

חָצַ֧בְתָּ cha.Tzav.ta “you have dug out”חֹצְבִ֤י cho.tze.Vi “digging out”

Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

חֻצַּבְתֶּ֔ם chu.tzav.Tem “[which] you were dug”

Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?

הַמַּחְצֶ֥בֶת (מַּחְצֶ֥בֶת) mach.Tze.vet “cut in pieces”

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

לַחְצֹ֤ב (חְצֹ֤ב) ch.Tzo “dig”

So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

חָצַ֙בְתִּי֙ cha.Tzav.ti “I will cut [them] in pieces”