Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #2686 - חָצַץ chatsats (to divide)


Original Word:חָצַץ
Transliteration: chatsats
Definition:to divide
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(khaw-tsats')
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Strong's Exhaustive 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


Englishman's Concordance

1) to divide
1a) (Qal) to divide
1b) (Piel) to divide
1c) (Pual) to be cut off, be finished
2) to shoot arrows
2a) (Piel) archer (participle)
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root [compare H2673]
Same Word by TWOT Number: 721, 721c

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חָצַןverbdivide (Late Hebrew makes a partition; Assyrian —aƒâƒu, cut in two, ZimBP 24 n.; Ethiopic curtail, diminish) —

QalParticipleחֹצֵץ intransitive Proverbs 30:27 of locusts כלו׳ויצא ח; i.e. dividing (themselves) into companies or swarms.

Pi`elParticipleמְחַצְצִים see II. חצץ.

Pu`alPerfectמספר חדשׁיו חֻצָּ֑צוּJob 21:21the number of his months, they have been cut in two (figurative for curtailed).

II. [חצץ] verb denominative only

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

חצצר, חֲצֹצְרָה see IV. חצר.

I. חצר (√ of following; compare Arabic encompass, surround; Ethiopic surround, enclose by wall, etc.; enclosure; Late Hebrew חָצֵרcourt, Phoenician חצרid., Syriac , id.)


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2686. חָצַץ (chatsats) — 3 Occurrences

Judges 5:11
HEB: מִקּ֣וֹל מְחַֽצְצִ֗ים בֵּ֚ין מַשְׁאַבִּ֔ים
NAS: At the sound of those who divide [flocks] among
KJV: [They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water,
INT: the sound divide among the watering

Job 21:21
HEB:וּמִסְפַּ֖ר חֳדָשָׁ֣יו חֻצָּֽצוּ׃
NAS: of his months is cut off?
KJV: of his months is cut off in the midst?
INT: the number of his months is cut

Proverbs 30:27
HEB:לָאַרְבֶּ֑ה וַיֵּצֵ֖א חֹצֵ֣ץ כֻּלּֽוֹ׃
NAS: Yet all of them go out in ranks;
KJV: yet go they forth all of them by bands;
INT: the locusts go ranks all

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