Gazit גָּזִית

Gazit (Hebrew גָּזִית, Strong's H1496) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “cutting”. It occurs 11 times in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Gazit, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

• Exodus 20:25
  And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 5:17
  And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
• 1 Kings 6:36
  And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
• 1 Kings 7:9
  All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
• 1 Kings 7:11
  And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
• 1 Kings 7:12
  And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 22:2
  And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 9:10
  The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Lamentations

• Lamentations 3:9
  He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 40:42
  And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high. On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.

Amos

• Amos 5:11
  Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).