A primitive root; to cut ({off} down or asunder); by implication to destroy or consume; specifically to covenant (that {is} make an alliance or {bargain} originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces): - be {chewed} be con- [feder-] {ate} {covenant} cut ({down} {off}) {destroy} {fail} {feller} be {freed} hew ({down}) make a league ({[covenant]}) X {lose} {perish} X {utterly} X want.
Probably from H3772 in the sense of executioner; a Kerethite or life guardsman (compare {H3876}) (only collectively in the singular as plural): - {Cherethims} Cherethites.
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1Ki 6:36¶ And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beamsH3773.
1Ki 7:2¶ He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beamsH3773 upon the pillars.
1Ki 7:12And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beamsH3773, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.