Hewer
Hewer
huer (, hotebh): Applies especially to a wood-worker or wood-gatherer (compare Arabic hattab, a woodman) (Jos 9:21, Jos 9:23, Jos 9:17; 2Ch 2:10; Jer 46:22). Gathering wood, like drawing water, was a menial task. Special servants were assigned to the work (Deu 29:11). Joshua set the Gibeonites to hewing wood and drawing water as a punishment for their trickery, whereas were it not for the oath which the Israelites had sworn, the Gibeonites would probably have been killed. See DRAWER OF WATER.
, hacbh, from the root to cut or to carve, applies to hewers of stone in 1Ki 5:15; 2Ki 12:12; 1Ch 22:15; 2Ch 2:18.