חָצוֹת
châtsôwth · H2676 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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A point of time in the middle of a larger period of time (middle (of time))
ExamplesExodus 11:4 Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt,
Psalm 119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You Because of Your righteous judgments.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- לַיִלnight 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 2
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- צֹהַר tsôhar · H6672 · noon, midday
- Lexical opposite denoting the middle of the day, the temporal counterpart to midnight as the middle of the night.
In the other Testament 1 word
- μεσονύκτιον mesonýktion · G3317 · midnight
- Greek noun denoting the middle of the night, the precise translation equivalent of Hebrew חָצוֹת in temporal sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Time002002002010
- The word denotes midnight, a specific point of time, used throughout the exodus narrative to mark the timing of the LORD's judgment on Egypt.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2676. chatsoth [חָצוֺת] noun feminine (Infinitive form.) division, middle — only…
[חָצוֺת] noun feminine (Infinitive form.) division, middle — only construct הַלַּיְלָה חֲצֹת Exo 11:4 (J) = midnight; לַיְלָה חֲצוֺת Job 34:20; Psa 119:62; in all = adverb. phrase of time (בְּ omitted)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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