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.
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Hew
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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;
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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פָּסַל
pâçal · paw-sal'
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to carve, whether wood or stone
Strong's KJV usage: grave, hew.
Strong's first: Exodus 34:1Strong's last: 1 Kings 5:18
Open full H6458 profile →חָצַב
châtsab · khaw-tsab'
2 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
Strong's KJV usage: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 22:2Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 2:2
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kârath · kaw-rath'
2 times translated as this KJV form288 total Strong's occurrences
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)
Strong's KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), × lose, perish, × utterly, × want.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 5:6Strong's last: 1 Kings 5:6
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gᵉdad · ghed-ad'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to cut down
Strong's KJV usage: hew down.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 4:23Strong's last: Daniel 4:23
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châṭab · khaw-tab'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to chop or carve wood
Strong's KJV usage: cut down, hew(-er), polish.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 19:5Strong's last: Deuteronomy 19:5
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H6458
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.
H6458
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.
no direct Strong's tag
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.
H2404
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 head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
H3772
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.
H3772
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.
H6458
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
H2672
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.
H2672
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.
no direct Strong's tag
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.
no direct Strong's tag
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:
H1414
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;
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hew
HEW, verb transitive preterit tense hewed; participle passive hewed or hewn.
1. To cut with an ax, or other like instrument, for the purpose of making an even surface or side; as, to hew timber.
2. To chop; to cut; to hack; as, to hew in pieces.
3. To cut with a chisel; to make smooth; as, to hew stone.
4. To form or shape with an edged instrument; with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Isaiah 22:16.
5. To form laboriously.
I now pass my days, not studious nor idle, rather polishing old works than hewing out new ones. [Unusual.]
To hew down, to cut down; to fell by cutting.
To hew off, to cut off; to separate by a cutting instrument.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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