גָּזִית
ga.zit (H1496)
cutting
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word גָּזִית (ga.zit) has the short definition of "cutting". Its lexicon data suggests that it refers to the action of severing or dividing something. This meaning is likely derived from a verb form, which involves the action of cutting or cutting off. The word occurs 11 times in the Bible, indicating its significance and relevance to the storyline. Given its definition, it's likely that the word is used in contexts involving separation, division, or violence. Without further analysis, we can only infer that the word is important for understanding themes of breaking, separation, and division in the Bible narratives that feature this word.
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If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. They laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.
Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.