Joshua 9:21
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
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Jeremiah 46:22
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
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חָטַב
châṭab · khaw-tab'
5 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to chop or carve wood
Strong's KJV usage: cut down, hew(-er), polish.
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Strong's first: Joshua 9:21Strong's last: Jeremiah 46:22
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châtsab · khaw-tsab'
4 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 Kings 5:15Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 2:18
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And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
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Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
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And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
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hewer
HEW'ER, noun One who hews wood or stone.
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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