King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H2686
Transliteration: chatsats
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tsats')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to divide
Meaning: to chop into, pierce, sever, to curtail, to distribute, to shoot an arrow
Word Summary
chatsats: to divide
Original Word: חָצַץTransliteration: chatsats
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-tsats')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to divide
Meaning: to chop into, pierce, sever, to curtail, to distribute, to shoot an arrow
Strong's Concordance
archer, bands, cut off in the midst A primitive root (compare chatsah); properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); as denom. From chets, to shoot an arrow -- archer, X bands, cut off in the midst.
see HEBREW chatsah
see HEBREW chets
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2686. chatsats
חָצַן verb divide (Late Hebrew makes a partition; Assyrian —aƒâƒu, cut in two, ZimBP 24 n.; Ethiopic curtail, diminish) —
Qal Participle חֹצֵץ intransitive Proverbs 30:27 of locusts ח ׳ויצא כלו; i.e. dividing (themselves) into companies or swarms.
Pi`el Participle מְחַצְצִים see II. חצץ.
Pu`al Perfect חֻצָּ֑צוּ חדשׁיו מספר Job 21:21 the number of his months, they have been cut in two (figurative for curtailed).
II. [חצץ] verb denominative only
Pi`el Participle מְחַצְצִים Judges 5:11 archers (> those dividing spoil, since no object expressed and חלק more suitable for such meaning)
חֲצֹצְרָה חצצר, see IV. חצר.
I. חצר (√ of following; compare Arabic encompass, surround; Ethiopic surround, enclose by wall, etc.; enclosure; Late Hebrew חָצֵר court, Phoenician חצר id., Syriac , id.)