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Hew [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense hewed; participle passive hewed or hewn.

2. To cut with an ax, or other like instrument, for the purpose of making an even surface or side; as, to hew timber.

3. To chop; to cut; to hack; as, to hew in pieces.

4. To cut with a chisel; to make smooth; as, to hew stone.

5. To form or shape with an edged instrument; with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Isaiah 22:16 .

6. To form laboriously.

7. I now pass my days, not studious nor idle, rather polishing old works than hewing out new ones. [Unusual.]

8. To hew down, to cut down; to fell by cutting.

9. To hew off, to cut off; to separate by a cutting instrument.

Hew [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Destruction by cutting down.

2. Hue; color.

3. Shape; form.

Hew [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.

2. To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.

3. To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.

Hewe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A domestic servant; a retainer.

Hewed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cut and made smooth or even; chopped; hacked; shaped by cutting or by a chisel.

Hewed [Imperfect tense] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hewed [Past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hewer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who hews wood or stone.

Hewer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who hews.

Hewhole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

Hewing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cutting and making smooth or even; chopping; hacking; forming by the chisel.

Hewing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hewn [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The same as hewed.

Hewn Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Hewn [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

2. Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.

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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.

Exodus 34:1

And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:4

And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

Deuteronomy 10:1

At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Deuteronomy 10:3

And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 12:3

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

Deuteronomy 19:5

As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

Deuteronomy 29:11

Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

Joshua 9:21

And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.

Joshua 9:23

Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9:27

And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.

1 Samuel 11:7

And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they turned out as one man.

1 Samuel 15:33

And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

1 Kings 5:6

Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.

Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.”

1 Kings 5:15

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

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 5:18

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

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.