גָּזִית
hewing
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1496 appears — 11 distinct verses across 7 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
1 Kings 5 verses
- 1 Kings 5:17 גָזִֽית n c fs The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
- 1 Kings 6:36 גָזִ֑ית n c fs He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:9 גָּזִ֔ית n c fs All these were of costly stones, even of hewn 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.
- 1 Kings 7:11 גָּזִ֖ית n c fs Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
- 1 Kings 7:12 גָּזִ֔ית n c fs The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, גזית (gâzîyth) means “hewing.” It first appears in Exodus 20:25. Spanning 11 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in 1 Kings (45% of all occurrences). Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1496 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 5 verses 45%
- Exodus 1 verse 9%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 73%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 18%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Hewed stones 3×, Hewn stone 3×
- American Standard Version†: Hewn stone 7×, Wrought 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Cut 2×, Dressed stone 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Hewn stone 6×, Hewing 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1496 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1496 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1496 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1496 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a cutting, hewing
Word origin
n.f. a cutting, hewing—גָּזִית Ex 20:25 + 10 times, always abs.;—hewing, אַבְנֵי ג׳ = hewn stones (building-stones) 1 K 5:31; 1 Ch 22:2; Ez 40:42 (for tables), cf. אֲבָנִים יְקָרוֹת כְּמִדּוֹת ג׳ 1 K 7:9,11 (but Klo del. as gloss, cf. 𝔊; also without אבני = hewn stones Ex 20:25 (altar) Am 5:11 (בָּֽתֵּי ג׳) Is 9:9 (opp. לְבֵנִים); טוּרֵי ג׳ 1 K 6:36, טוּרִים ג׳ 7:12; also La 3:9 גָּדַר דַּרְכִּי בְּג׳.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גזה (gâzâh) (H1491) — to cut off.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גָּזִית
- hewn stone; wall of squared stones. B. Bath. I, 1, contrad. to גְּוִיל. B. Mets. 117ᵇ; a. fr.—לשכת הג׳ the cell of Gazith, name of a Temple compartment, the seat of the Great Sanedrin. Midd. V, 4; a. fr.—Trnsf. אבן ג׳ (squared stone), a plain interpreter of Bible texts (Midrash). Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXVIII; 2ᵈ vers. ch. XLVI.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H1496 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָּזִ֔ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:9 | 2 |
| בְּ/גָזִ֔ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Lamentations 3:9 | 1 |
| גָזִ֑ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:36 | 1 |
| גָזִ֔ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 22:2 | 1 |
| גָזִ֗ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 40:42 | 1 |
| גָזִ֛ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 5:11 | 1 |
| גָזִֽית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 5:17 | 1 |
| גָּזִ֑ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 20:25 | 1 |
| גָּזִ֖ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:11 | 1 |
| וְ/גָזִ֣ית | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 9:10 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
