Strong’s H8158 · Hebrew
שָׁסַף
shâçaph · shaw-saf'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to cut in pieces, i.e. slaughter
In the King James Version hew in pieces.
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- 1 Samuel 15:33And 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.
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.