2 Chronicles 2:18:82 Chr.2.18.W8TABWLC 2 Chronicles 2:17
חֹצֵ֣ב
khotsev
“cutter or quarryman”
- Transliteration
- kho-TSEV
- Extended
- khoh-TSEEV
- IPA
- /ħoːˈtseːv/
Meaning by language
- English
- cutter or quarryman
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Chet | ch — deep guttural, as in Scottish loch | |
| Holem | long 'oh' as in go | |
| Tsade | ts as in cats | |
| Tsere | long 'ey' as in they | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh |
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The word
Word in context
- word
kho-TSEV
- phraseyour reading level
kho-TSEV ba-HAR
- clause
va-yA-as me-HEM shiv-I-im E-lef sa-BAL u-she-mo-NIM E-lef kho-TSEV ba-HAR
- sentence
va-yA-as me-HEM shiv-I-im E-lef sa-BAL u-she-mo-NIM E-lef kho-TSEV ba-HAR u-she-lo-SHET a-la-FIM ve-SHESH me-OT me-na-tse-KHIM le-ha-a-VID ET-ha-AM
Exegesis
The nouns sabbāl {סַבָּל | sabbāl} ‘burden-bearer’ and ḥōṣēḇ {חֹצֵב | ḥōṣēḇ} ‘stonecutter’ denote labor categories, with bə-hār {בָּהָר | bə-hār} ‘in the mountain’ marking location.
Root and etymology
Rootḥ-ṣ-v
“to hew or quarry”
In context — 2 Chronicles 2:18
And he appointed from among them seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to direct the people in their work.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 2:18:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 2 Chronicles 2:18, so the Hebrew word חֹצֵ֣ב (khotsev) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Chr.2.18.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.2.18.W8.S1) and character.