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Hew

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Greek G1581 ekkóptō

Original: ἐκκόπτω

Meaning:
from ἐκ and κόπτω; to exscind; figuratively, to frustrate:--cut down (off, out), hew down, hinder.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: figuratively, to frustrate:--cut down (off, out), hew down, hinder.

Hebrew H1414 gᵉdad

Original: גְּדַד

Meaning:
(Aramaic) corresponding to גָּדַד; to cut down; hew down.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: hew down.

Hebrew H1438 gâdaʻ

Original: גָּדַע

Meaning:
a primitive root; to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything; cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.

Hebrew H2404 châṭab

Original: חָטַב

Meaning:
a primitive root; to chop or carve wood; cut down, hew(-er), polish.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: cut down, hew(-er), polish.

Hebrew H2672 châtsab

Original: חָצַב

Meaning:
or חָצֵב; a primitive root; to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave; cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.

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Hebrew H3772 kârath

Original: כָּרַת

Meaning:
a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces); be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.

Hebrew H5408 nâthach

Original: נָתַח

Meaning:
a primitive root; to dismember; cut (in pieces), divide, hew in pieces.

Hebrew H6458 pâçal

Original: פָּסַל

Meaning:
a primitive root; to carve, whether wood or stone; grave, hew.

Hebrew H7060 qâmal

Original: קָמַל

Meaning:
a primitive root; to wither; hew down, wither.

Hebrew H8158 shâçaph

Original: שָׁסַף

Meaning:
a primitive root; to cut in pieces, i.e. slaughter; hew in pieces.

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^{Exodus 34:1} And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. Open

^{Deuteronomy 10:1} At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. Open

^{Deuteronomy 12:3} And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Open

^{Deuteronomy 19:5} As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbor, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: Open

^{1 Kings 5:6} Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. Open

^{1 Kings 5:18} And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. Open

^{1 Chronicles 22:2} And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. Open

^{2 Chronicles 2:2} And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. Open

^{Jeremiah 6:6} For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. Open

^{Daniel 4:14} He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: Open

^{Daniel 4:23} And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; Open

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