Bible Encyclopedia: Hewing

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Strong's Hebrew

4274. machtseb -- a hewing
... a hewing. Transliteration: machtseb Phonetic Spelling: (makh-tsabe') Short Definition:
hewn. ... From chatsab; properly, a hewing; concretely, a quarry -- hewed(-n). ...
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1496. gazith -- a cutting, hewing
... 1495, 1496. gazith. 1497 . a cutting, hewing. Transliteration: gazith
Phonetic Spelling: (gaw-zeeth') Short Definition: stone. Word ...
/hebrew/1496.htm - 6k

Library

Continued.
... And Jehovah rends the cedars of Lebanon, And makes them leap like a calf; Lebanon
and Sirion like a young buffalo The voice of Jehovah hewing flashes of fire! ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the life of david/iii early dayscontinued.htm

Heart's-Ease
... Michael Angelo used to carry stuck on his forehead in a paste-board cap, and which
kept his own shadow from being cast upon his work when he was hewing out his ...
//christianbookshelf.org/brooks/hearts-ease/hearts-ease.htm

A Short and Easy Method of Prayer
... "Come, all ye that are athirst, to these living waters"; nor lose your precious
moments in "hewing out cisterns, broken cisterns that will hold no water" (John ...
/.../guyon/a short and easy method of prayer/a short and easy method.htm

All are Commanded to Pray --Prayer the Great Means of Salvation
... 22:17). Do not amuse yourselves by hewing out to yourselves "broken cisterns
that can hold no water" (Jeremiah 2:13). Come, hungry ...
/.../a short method of prayer and spiritual torrents/chapter i all are commanded.htm

San Josef
... The men are hewing down the giant grass with cutlasses; the women stripping off
the leaves, and then piling the cane in carts drawn by mules, the leaders of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter ix san josef.htm

Some Helps to Mourning
... Every blow given to the tree helps forward the felling of the tree. Every
sin is an hewing and chopping down the soul for hellfire. ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/10 some helps to mourning.htm

The Image of Self.
... There he was pictured with his sling going against the giant Goliath. There he was
represented standing over the fallen Philistine and hewing off his head. ...
/.../the village pulpit volume ii trinity to advent/lx the image of self.htm

Joshua Kocherthal.
... Hewing Their Way to the Mohawk Valley."The immigrants had been promised prosperity;
but the English officials were actuated by selfish motives and shamefully ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bente/american lutheranism/joshua kocherthal.htm

Canaan
... apparent, the young artist laid aside his chisel and mallet, and the Arabian desert
knew his footsteps no more for many days after the rough-hewing of Athor's ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xii canaan.htm

And So, Having Made These Remarks as it were by Way of Preface...
... Are you not yourselves every day, in your efforts to illumine the darkness of antiquity,
cutting and hewing with the new axes of imperial rescripts and edicts ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/apology/chapter iv and so having.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hew.

Thesaurus

Hewing (6 Occurrences)
...Hewing (6 Occurrences). 1 Kings 5:15 And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing
burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain, (YLT). ...
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Axe (19 Occurrences)
... 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping."
It was used for felling trees (Isaiah 10:34) and hewing timber for ...
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Shebna (9 Occurrences)
... We can perhaps safely infer that he was a parvenu from the fact that he was hewing
himself a sepulcher in Jerusalem, apparently among those of the nobility ...
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Hewn (32 Occurrences)

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Numbereth (9 Occurrences)
... 2 Chronicles 2:2 and Solomon numbereth seventy thousand men bearing burden, and
eighty thousand men hewing in the mountain, and overseers over them -- three ...
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Log (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills. 2. (n.) A bulky
piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing. ...
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Graving (7 Occurrences)
... and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him
out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock! ...
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Gravest (1 Occurrence)
... and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him
out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock! ...
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Waving (23 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Isaiah 10:15 -- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with
it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? ...
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Trench (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to
make by incision, hewing, or the like. 2. (vt) To fortify ...
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Bible Concordance

Hewing (6 Occurrences)

1 Kings 5:15 And king Solomon hath seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing in the mountain,
(YLT)

1 Kings 5:18 and the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hew, and prepare the wood and the stones to build the house.
(See RSV)

2 Chronicles 2:2 and Solomon numbereth seventy thousand men bearing burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mountain, and overseers over them -- three thousand and six hundred.
(YLT)

Psalms 29:7 The voice of Jehovah is hewing fiery flames,
(YLT)

Isaiah 10:15 -- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
(YLT)

Isaiah 22:16 What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!
(ASV YLT NIV)

Subtopics

Hewing

Related Terms

Axe (19 Occurrences)

Shebna (9 Occurrences)

Hewn (32 Occurrences)

Numbereth (9 Occurrences)

Log (12 Occurrences)

Graving (7 Occurrences)

Gravest (1 Occurrence)

Waving (23 Occurrences)

Trench (8 Occurrences)