חָמֵשׁ chamesh

Hebrew word for “five” · Strong’s H2568 · used 343 times in 272 verses

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Meaning

1) five; 1a) five (cardinal number); 1b) a multiple of five (with another number); 1c) fifth (ordinal number)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chamesh in context, with how often each is used:

• five 287
• fif- 27
• will be five 17
• day five 4
• five bars 2
• day fif- 2
• will be fif- 1
• will be on the fif- 1
• about five 1
• about fif- 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 7 (12), Ezekiel 48 (12), Ezekiel 40 (10), Genesis 5 (9), Numbers 31 (8), Ezra 2 (8), Exodus 38 (7), Nehemiah 7 (7), Ezekiel 45 (7), Numbers 1 (6)

Forms

• חמשׁ 94
• חמשׁה 91
• וחמשׁ 68
• וחמשׁה 38
• חמשׁת 22
• בחמשׁה 17
• ובחמשׁה 3
• וחמשׁת 3
• כחמשׁת 2
• החמשׁה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chamesh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 90
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 71
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 54
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 66
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 43
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 34
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 29
• אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 25
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 27
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 31
• אַרְבָּעִים arbaim “forty” 23
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 23

Key verses

The verses using chamesh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 30:23 — Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of…
• Joshua 13:3 — From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites,…
• Judges 3:3 — Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the…
• 2 Kings 19:35 — And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when…
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;…
• Isaiah 37:36 — Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the…
• Isaiah 38:5 — Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days…
• Ezekiel 1:1 — Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the…
• Ezekiel 8:1 — And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that…
• Ezekiel 8:16 — And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about…
• Ezekiel 11:1 — Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and…
• Ezekiel 40:1 — In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.