hewer 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).
hewer
ˈhju:ə n. 1 a person who hews. 2 a person who cuts coal from
a seam. øhewers of wood and drawers of water menial drudges; labourers
(Josh. 9:21).
HEWER
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
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