Strong's Lexicon

H2686

H2686 — חָצַץ

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewchatsatsverb-stemOccurrences: 3TWOT: 721c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H2686
Word:	חָצַץ
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	3
Transliteration:	chatsats
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	khaw-tsats'
Meaning:	1. (properly) to chop into, pierce or sever 2. (hence) to curtail, to distribute (into ranks) 3. as denom. from H2671, to shoot an arrow
KJV Renderings:	archer, X bands, cut off in the midst.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3041

חָצַן verb divide (Late Hebrew makes a partition; Assyrian —aƒâƒu , cut in two, Zim^{BP 24 n} .; Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 1927] curtail, diminish) —

Qal Participle חֹצֵץ intransitive Prov 30:27 of locusts כלו ׳ ויצא ח; i.e. dividing (themselves) into companies or swarms.

Pi`el Participle מְחַצְצִים see II. חצץ .

Pu`al Perfect מספר חדשׁיו חֻצָּ֑צוּ Job 21:21 the number of his months, they have been cut in two (figurative for curtailed).

BDB3045

II. [חצץ] verb denominative only

Pi`el Participle מְחַצְצִים Judg 5:11 archers (> those dividing spoil, since no object expressed and חלק more suitable for such meaning)

חצצר, חֲצֹצְרָה see IV. חצר .

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חצץ (g’hah-tzatz’)

Proverbs 30:27

KJV: The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;by…: Heb. gathered together

EHCC: go they forth all of them by bands; (marg

Job 21:91

EHCC: the number of his months is cut off in th

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