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מַחֲצִית

machătsîyth · H4276 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. half

    One part of a countable entity that has been divided into two parts

    Examples

    Exodus 30:13 “This is what everyone who is counted shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the LORD.

    Exodus 30:15 “The rich shall not pay more, and the poor shall not pay less, than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.

    Exodus 30:23 “Take also for yourself the finest of spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, 250, and of fragrant cane 250,

  2. midday, noon

    Literally: half of a day; hence: the time when half of a day has elapsed

    Examples

    Nehemiah 8:3 And he read from it before the public square which was in front of the Water Gate, from early morning until midday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.

How it’s used In 6 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

16 occurrences in 8 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
ἥμισυ hḗmisy · G2255 · half
ἥμισυ (hḗmisy, G2255) is the direct Greek translation equivalent of מַחֲצִית (machătsîyth, H4276), both denoting the mathematical concept 'half' as a fractional part of a whole, with ἥμισυ serving as the standard LXX rendering across contexts involving division, measurement, and proportional distribution.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Quantity002001001046
מַחֲצִית most commonly denotes the quantity one-half, as in the half-shekel offering (Exodus 30:13) and the half of Gilead assigned to the tribe of Manasseh (Deuteronomy 3:13).
Time002002002010
The word can also denote the midpoint of the day, midday or noon, a temporal rather than quantitative half, as in Nehemiah 8:3's reading of the Law "from early morning until midday."
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָצָה châtsâh · H2673 · to be divided, to divide oneself, to divide · 15×חֵצִי chêtsîy · H2677 · half (of object or substance), half (measure) · 125×מַחֲצִיתmachătsîyth · H4276חָצוֹת châtsôwth · H2676 · middle (of time) · 3×מֶחֱצָה mechĕtsâh · H4275 · half · 2×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4276. machatsith מַחֲצִית noun feminine half, middle — construct מַחֲצִית Exo 30:13…
H4276. machatsith
מַחֲצִית noun feminine half, middle — construct מַחֲצִית Exo 30:13 (twice in verse) + 8 t.; מַחֲצִת Num 31:30, Num 31:47; suffix מַחֲצִיתוֺ Exo 30:23, מַחֲצִיתָהּ Lev 6:13 (twice in verse), מַחֲצִיתָם Num 31:29 —
1 half of a shekel Exo 30:13 (twice in verse); Exo 30:15 compare Exo 30:23; Exo 38:26; the flour for offering Lev 6:13 (twice in verse), of spoils Num 31:29-30, Num 31:42, Num 31:47; of tribe Jos 21:25 (all P), 1Ch 6:46; 1Ch 6:55; of chariots 1Ki 16:9.
2 middle ׳מ היּוֺם = midday, noon Neh 8:3 (compare midnight, חֲצִי חָצוֺת, 2).
חצן (√ of following; meaning dubious; denominative seem to be Arabic , Ethiopic carry in the arms or bosom, rear, foster; perhaps also Assyrian êƒênu, bring together, also drink or draw in sweet odours Flood Tabletiii, 49 Hpt in KAT2Gloss i).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Quantity14 occurrencesTime1 occurrence

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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