Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4276
מַחֲצִית
machatsithmakh-ats-eeth'
half
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: machătsîyth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4276is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4276
a halving or the middle
The King James renders it: half (so much), mid(-day).
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
machatsith is rendered "half". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 30:13Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
Exodus 30:13מַחֲצִ֥ית
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's sixteen uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and from half of4
- from half of2
- half its2
- half of2
- the half of2
- and half its1
- from half their1
- middle of1
- more than half of1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחֲנֶה | machaneh | camp | Uses215 |
| מַחֲשָׁבָה | machashabah | plot | Uses56 |
| מַחֲלֹקֶת | machaloqeth | division | Uses42 |
| מַחֲסֶה | machaseh | refuge | Uses20 |
| מַחֲלֶה | machaleh | sickness | Uses6 |
| מַחֲבַת | machabath | griddle | Uses5 |
| מַחֲזֶה | machazeh | vision | Uses4 |
| מַחֲרֵשָׁה | machareshah | plowshare | Uses3 |
| מַחֲבֵא | machabe | hiding-place | Uses2 |
| מַחֲלָצָה | machalatsah | robe | Uses2 |
| מַחֲלָף | machalaph | knife | Uses1 |
| מַחֲנַק | machanaq | strangling | Uses1 |
and 6 more on the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- מַחֲצִ֣ית3
- וּמִֽמַּחֲצִית֙2
- מַחֲצִ֥ית2
- וּמַחֲצִיתָ֖הּ1
- וּמִֽמַּחֲצִ֖ית1
- וּמִמַּחֲצִ֨ת1
- מַחֲצִיתָ֣הּ1
- מַחֲצִית֖וֹ1
- מִֽמַּחֲצִ֖ית1
- מִֽ֠מַּחֲצִית1
- מִמַּֽחֲצִיתָ֖ם1
- מִמַּחֲצִ֣ת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HC/R/Ncfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3fs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3fs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp
Exodus
five uses
Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- מַחֲצִ֥יתmachatzitnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: half of
- מַחֲצִ֣יתmachatzitnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the half of
In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
- מִֽמַּחֲצִ֖יתmimachatzitpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than half of
“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
- מַחֲצִית֖וֹmachatzitonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: half its
a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
- מַחֲצִ֥יתmachatzitnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: half of
Leviticus
two uses
“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
- מַחֲצִיתָ֣הּmachatzitahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: half its
- וּמַחֲצִיתָ֖הּumachatzitahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and half its
Numbers
four uses
Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
- מִמַּֽחֲצִיתָ֖םmimachatzitampreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from half their
From the Israelites’ half, take one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”
- וּמִמַּחֲצִ֨תumimachatzitconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from half of
From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
- וּמִֽמַּחֲצִ֖יתumimachatzitconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from half of
From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
- מִמַּחֲצִ֣תmimachatzitpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from half of
Joshua
one use
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Taanach and Gath-rimmon—two cities, together with their pasturelands.
- וּמִֽמַּחֲצִית֙umimachatzitconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from half of
1 Kings
one use
However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.
- מַחֲצִ֣יתmachatzitnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the half of
1 Chronicles
two uses
To the rest of the Kohathites, ten cities were allotted from the half-tribe of Manasseh.
- מִֽ֠מַּחֲצִיתmimachatzitpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from half of
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh the remaining clans of the Kohathites were given Aner and Bileam, together with their pasturelands.
- וּמִֽמַּחֲצִית֙umimachatzitconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from half of
Nehemiah
one use
So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
- מַחֲצִ֣יתmachatzitnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: middle of
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.