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ga.zit is worked stone, especially stone prepared for building, altars, courts, houses, and tables.
The attested use is of stone that has been worked for construction or masonry. The term occurs for building materials in courts and houses, for altar stones, for offering tables, and for a wall that blocks a person's ways.
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Worked stone used as construction material · dominant
The singular noun identifies prepared stone in building contexts: in 1 Chronicles 22:2 the APB renders stonecutters preparing stone for God's house, while 1 Kings 6:36 and 1 Kings 7:9 place it in courses and measured building stones. In Exodus 20:25 the APB contrasts an altar of stones with an altar built of "cut stone"; Amos 5:11 describes houses built of "hewn stone." In Ezekiel 40:42 the APB presents the offering tables as made of "hewn stone," and Lamentations 3:9 uses such stone for a wall across the speaker's ways.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the construction material is explicit, the APB renders it as "dressed stone," "hewn stone," or "cut stone." These are clause-level renderings rather than definitions; Isaiah 9:9 does not explicitly display the relevant phrase in the supplied APB verse.