חֲמִישִׁי
chămîyshîy · H2549 · Hebrew · 45 occurrences
Meanings
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fifth
State in which a countable entity is the fifth in a range
ExamplesGenesis 1:23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Genesis 30:17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Leviticus 19:25 ‘But in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, so that its yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God.
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State in which an entity is one out of five equal parts (a fifth (part))
ExamplesGenesis 47:24 “At the harvest you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own for seed of the field and for your food, and for those of your households and as food for your little ones.”
Leviticus 5:16 “And he shall make restitution for that which he has sinned against the holy thing, and shall add to it a fifth part of it and give it to the priest. The priest shall then make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it will be forgiven him.
Leviticus 6:5 or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall make restitution for it in full and add to it a fifth more. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering.
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pentagonal, five-sided, with five indents
Exact meaning unsure; possibly: state in which the jambs of an entrance consist of five visible elements, which could mean that it had five visible sides, or that its frame consisted of five indentations
Examples1 Kings 6:31 And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel, and five-sided doorposts.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- רַדַּיRaddai 1
- רָפָאRaphah 1
- שְׁפַטְיָהShephatiah 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- נְתַנְיָהNethaniah 1
- שְׁפַטְיָהShephatiah 1
- שַׂרcommander, chief, official 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יִרְמְיָהJeremiah 1
- נְתַנְאֵלNethanel 1
- עֵילָםElam 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מְזוּזָהdoorpost 1
- צוֹםfasting 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- πέμπτος pémptos · G3991 · fifth
- Greek πέμπτος (pémptos, G3991) is the standard ordinal adjective rendering Hebrew חֲמִישִׁי (chămîyshîy, H2549), both denoting 'fifth' in ordinal sequence; the Hebrew can also function nominally as 'fifth part,' but the core ordinal sense is directly equivalent across both languages.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- The word denotes the ordinal fifth, or a fifth part of a whole, as in Genesis 47:24's instruction to give a fifth of the harvest to Pharaoh.
- Frequency002001003009
- The word can mark the fifth in a sequence, as in Genesis 1:23's designation of the fifth day of creation.
- Shape002001001052
- This code is inherited from the shared root's broader classification rather than from an independent sense in this entry's own occurrences, which consistently denote the ordinal fifth or a fifth share.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2549. chamishi חֲמִישִׁי masculine, חֲמִישִׁית feminine adjective ordinal number fifth;…
חֲמִישִׁי masculine, חֲמִישִׁית
feminine adjective ordinal number fifth; — masculine חֲמִישִׁי Gen 1:23 Gen 1:22t.; חֲמִשִׁי Zec 7:3 Zec 7:3t.; feminine חֲמִישִׁית absolute 1Ki 14:25 1Ki 14:4t.; חֲמִשִׁית Lev 19:25; Jer 36:9; חֲמִשּׁית 1Ki 6:31; construct חֲמִישִׁית Lev 27:15, Lev 27:19; suffix חֲמִישִׁתוֺ Lev 5:16 Lev 5:2t.; חֲמִשִׁיתוֺ Lev 22:14; Lev 27:31; חֲמִשִׁתוֺ Lev 27:27, compare חֲמִשִׁתָיו Leviticus 5:24, read תוֺ- Samaritan Di (q. v.); — fifth, usually in enumerated days, months, years, sons, etc.; definite, except masculine Gen 1:23; Gen 30:17, feminine Gen 47:24; 1Ki 6:31; Neh 6:5; —
1. masculine Gen 1:23; Num 7:36; Num 29:26; Num 33:38; Jos 19:24 (all P), Gen 30:17 (E), Jdg 19:8; 2Ki 25:8; Jer 1:3; Jer 28:1; Jer 52:12; Zec 7:3; 1Ch 27:8; Ezr 7:8-9, noun omitted 2Sa 3:4; 1Ch 2:14; 1Ch 3:3; 1Ch 8:2; 1Ch 26:3-4, (all of בֵּן), 1Ch 24:9; 1Ch 25:12 (גּוֺרָל), Zec 8:19 (חֹדֶשׁ), 1Ch 27:8 (יוֺם).
2. feminine Lev 19:25; 1Ki 14:25; Jer 36:9; Eze 1:2; 2Ch 12:2; ח ׳מַּעַם Neh 6:5.
3 חֲמִשִּׁית 1Ki 6:31 as substantive a fifth part, so חֲמִישִׁית Gen 47:24; Lev 5:6; Leviticus 5:24; Lev 22:14; Lev 27:13, Lev 27:27, Lev 27:31; Num 5:7; construct כֶּסֶף חמישׁית Lev 27:15, Lev 27:19.
III. חמשׁ (√ of following; meaning dubious).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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