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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<01496>: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.



Isaiah 51:1  Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn<02672>, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.

Lamentations 3:9  He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone<01496>, he hath made my paths crooked.

Ezekiel 40:42  And the four tables [were] of hewn stone<01496> for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

Amos 5:11  Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone<01496>, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.






01496 גָּזִית‎ gaziyth [gaw-zeeth’] from 01491; n f; [BDB-159a] [{See TWOT on 335 @@ "335a" }] 
AV-hewn 10, wrought 1; 11 
1) a cutting, hewing


04274 מַחְצֵב‎ machtseb [makh-tsabe’] from 02672; n m; [BDB-345a] [{See TWOT on 718 @@ "718a" }] AV-hewn 2, hewed 1; 3 

1) hewing, hewn 
1a) of stones


02672 חָצַב‎ chatsab [khaw-tsab’] or חצב‎ chatseb [khaw-tsabe’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-345a] [{See TWOT on 718 }] AV-dig 5, hew 4, hewers 4, hew out 4, mason 3, cut 1, divideth 1, graven 1, hewn 1, made 1; 25 

1) to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason 
1a) (Qal) 
1a1) to hew out, dig 
1a2) to hew 
1a2a) stone 
1a2b) wood 
1a3) to hew in pieces (metaph.) 
1a4) to divide, cleave 
1b) (Niphal) to be cut, be hewn, be engraved 
1c) (Hiphil) to hew into pieces, cut up into pieces 
1d) (Pual) to be cut from, be hewn from