Strong’s H2686 · Hebrew
חָצַץ
châtsats · khaw-tsats'
Origin a primitive root (compare חָצָה (H2673) lemma חָעָה ayin, corrected to חָצָה
Meaning properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); to shoot an arrow
In the King James Version archer, [idiom] bands, cut off in the midst.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Judges 5:11They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
- Job 21:21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
- Proverbs 30:27The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.