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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEW'ER, n. One who hews wood or stone.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who hews

Merriam Webster's

noun see hew

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person who hews. 2 a person who cuts coal from a seam. Phrases and idioms: hewers of wood and drawers of water menial drudges; labourers (Josh.
9:21).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hewer Hew"er, n. One who hews.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hu'-er (choTebh): Applies especially to a wood-worker or wood-gatherer (compare Arabic chattab, "a woodman") (Jos 9:21,23,17; 2Ch 2:10; Jer 46:22). Gathering wood, like drawing water, was a menial task. Special servants were assigned to the work (De 29:11). Joshua set the Gibeonites to hewing wood and drawing water as a punishment for their trickery, whereas were it not for the oath which the Israelites had sworn, the Gibeonites would probably have been killed.

See DRAWER OF WATER.

chatsbh, from the root "to cut" or "to carve," applies to hewers of stone in 1Ki 5:15; 2Ki 12:12; 1Ch 22:15; 2Ch 2:18.

James A. Patch