Greek adjective · G2255
ἥμισυ
hemisyhay'-mee-soo
as adj., agreeing in gender and number with the substantive following, τὰ ἡμίσια; As neut. subst., τὸ ἥμισυ, the half
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hḗmisy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2255is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2255
(as noun) half
The King James renders it: half.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hemisy is rendered "as adj., agreeing in gender and number with the substantive following, τὰ ἡμίσια; As neut. subst., τὸ ἥμισυ, the half". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "as adj., agreeing in gender and number with the substantive following, τὰ ἡμίσια".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 6:23And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom!”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom!”
Mark 6:23ἡμίσους
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: as adj., agreeing in gender and number with the substantive following, τὰ ἡμίσια, and As neut. subst., τὸ ἥμισυ, the half.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| as adj., agreeing in gender and number with the substantive following, τὰ ἡμίσιατ. ὑταρχόντων, Luk.19:8. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 19:8But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord… |
| As neut. subst., τὸ ἥμισυ, the halfἥ. (anarth.), a half | Tagged as
| WhereMark 6:23And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom!” |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἥμισυ3
- ἡμίσιά1
- ἡμίσους1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular3A-ASN
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1A-GSN
Mark
one use
And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom!”
- ἡμίσουςhemisousadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: half
Luke
one use
But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will repay it fourfold.”
- ἡμίσιάhemisiaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: half
Revelation
three uses
For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.
- ἥμισυhemisuadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a half
But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.
- ἥμισυhemisuadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a half
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
- ἥμισυhemisuadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: half
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.