Strong's Hebrew #2404 - חַָטַב chatab (to cut or gather wood)

cut down, hewer, polish

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

1) to cut, gather
1a) (Qal) to cut, gather (wood)
1b) (Pual) to cut, carve
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 639

I. [חָטַב] verb cut or gather wood, usually firewood (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic firewood, collect firewood (see Wetzst in De^{Ps 144:12}); Ethiopic cut (or gather) firewood) —

Qal Imperfect יַחְטְבוּ Ezekiel 39:10; Infinitive לַחְטֹב Deuteronomy 19:5; Participle חֹטֵב Deuteronomy 29:10; plural חֹטְבִים2Chron 2:9; construct חֹטְבֵי Joshua 9:21 3t.; passive plural feminine חֲטֻבוֺת Proverbs 7:16 — cut or gather wood, followed by accusative Deuteronomy 19:5; Deuteronomy 29:10 ("" שׁאב מים); compare Ezekiel 39:10 מןהֿיערים (object in preceding clause); 2 Chron 2:9 ("" כֹּרְתֵי הָעֵצִים); Participle construct עצים ׳ח Jeremiah 46:22, and ("" שֹׁאֲבֵי מַיִם) Joshua 9:21,23,27.

Pu`al Participle מְחֻטָּבוֺת Psalm 144:12 meaning dubious; perhaps hewn (so, in substance, Thes MV SS Ew Che Bae; see however II. חטב), of corner-pillars (זָוִיּוֺת see זָוִית above), simile of beautiful, stately daughters.

II. חטב (√of following; compare Arabic be of the colour , i.e. turbid, dusky, mixed with yellowish red, etc.; Aramaic Participle variegated ᵑ6 2 Samuel 13:19).

Strong's Hebrew: 2404. חָטַב (chatab) — 9 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 19:5
HEB: רֵעֵ֥הוּ בַיַּעַר֮ לַחְטֹ֣ב עֵצִים֒ וְנִדְּחָ֨ה
NAS: with his friend to cut wood,
KJV: with his neighbour to hew wood,
INT: his friend the forest to cut wood swings

Deuteronomy 29:11
HEB: בְּקֶ֣רֶב מַחֲנֶ֑יךָ מֵחֹטֵ֣ב עֵצֶ֔יךָ עַ֖ד
NAS: your camps, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws
KJV: thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood
INT: is within your camps chops wood who

Joshua 9:21
HEB: יִֽחְי֑וּ וַ֠יִּֽהְיוּ חֹטְבֵ֨י עֵצִ֤ים וְשֹֽׁאֲבֵי־
NAS: So they became hewers of wood and drawers
KJV: unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood
INT: live became hewers of wood and drawers

Joshua 9:23
HEB: מִכֶּ֜ם עֶ֗בֶד וְחֹטְבֵ֥י עֵצִ֛ים וְשֹֽׁאֲבֵי־
NAS: being slaves, both hewers of wood and drawers
KJV: from being bondmen, and hewers of wood
INT: being slaves hewers of wood and drawers

Joshua 9:27
HEB: בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא חֹטְבֵ֥י עֵצִ֛ים וְשֹׁ֥אֲבֵי
NAS: them that day hewers of wood and drawers
KJV: them that day hewers of wood
INT: day he hewers of wood and drawers

2 Chronicles 2:10
HEB: וְהִנֵּ֣ה לַֽחֹטְבִ֣ים ׀ לְֽכֹרְתֵ֣י ׀ הָעֵצִ֡ים
NAS: to your servants, the woodsmen who cut
KJV: to thy servants, the hewers that cut
INT: behold the hewers cut timber

Psalm 144:12
HEB: בְּנוֹתֵ֥ינוּ כְזָוִיֹּ֑ת מְ֝חֻטָּב֗וֹת תַּבְנִ֥ית הֵיכָֽל׃
NAS: as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace;
KJV: [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude
INT: and our daughters corner fashioned the similitude A palace

Jeremiah 46:22
HEB: בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔הּ כְּחֹטְבֵ֖י עֵצִֽים׃
NAS: And come to her as woodcutters with axes.
KJV: against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
INT: axes and come woodcutters of wood

Ezekiel 39:10
HEB: הַשָּׂדֶ֗ה וְלֹ֤א יַחְטְבוּ֙ מִן־ הַיְּעָרִ֔ים
NAS: from the field or gather firewood from the forests,
KJV: out of the field, neither cut down [any] out of the forests;
INT: the field or gather from the forests