hewing
mach.tsev denotes hewn building stone purchased for repairing ruined houses.
The attested use concerns hewn stone obtained for repair work: 2 Kings 22:6 and 2 Chronicles 34:11 place it with timber and building workers for restoring houses, while 2 Kings 12:13 occurs in a statement about items not made from funds brought to the house of the LORD.
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Hewn stone for building repair · dominant
In 2 Kings 22:6, the masculine singular absolute form occurs in the purchase of timber and hewn stone for repairing the house. In 2 Chronicles 34:11, the APB likewise renders “hewn stone” alongside timber for work on houses that had fallen into ruin; 2 Kings 12:13 places the same form in a statement concerning what was not made from the silver brought to the house of the LORD.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly renders the construction context as “hewn stone” in 2 Kings 22:6 and 2 Chronicles 34:11. In 2 Kings 12:13, its contribution is not isolable from the translation’s broader list of items not made.