מַחֲצִית machatsit

Hebrew word for “half” · Strong’s H4276 · used 16 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

1) half, middle; 1a) half; 1b) middle, midday, noon

How it is translated

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

• half 14
• more than the half 1
• middle 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 31 (4), Exodus 30 (3), 1 Chronicles 6 (2), Exodus 38 (1), Leviticus 6 (1), Joshua 21 (1), 1 Kings 16 (1), Nehemiah 8 (1)

Forms

• מחצית 5
• וממחצית 3
• ממחצית 2
• מחציתו 1
• מחציתה 1
• ומחציתה 1
• ממחציתם 1
• וממחצת 1
• ממחצת 1

Words used with it

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

• חֲמִשִּׁים chamishshim “fifty” 4
• שֶׁקֶל sheqel “shekel” 3
• תְּרוּמָה terumah “contribution” 3
• מְנַשֶּׁה menashsheh “Manasseh” 3
• מַטֶּה matteh “tribe” 3
• קְהָת qehat “Kohath” 2
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 4
• מִן־ min “from” 4
• אָחַז achaz “to grasp” 2
• מִשְׁמֶרֶת mishmeret “charge” 2
• מִגְרָשׁ migrash “pasture” 2
• יָתַר yatar “to remain” 2

Key verses

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

• Exodus 30:13 — This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an…
• Exodus 30:15 — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your…
• 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…
• Exodus 38:26 — A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for…
• Leviticus 6:20 — This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour…
• Numbers 31:29 — Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
• Numbers 31:30 — And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of…
• Numbers 31:47 — Even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the…
• Joshua 21:25 — And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
• 1 Kings 16:9 — And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his…
• 1 Chronicles 6:61 — And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh,…
• Nehemiah 8:3 — And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could…

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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.