Hebrew word · H4276
מַחֲצִית
machatzit
half
Appears 16 times in 14 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
1) half, middle
1a) half
1b) middle, midday, noon
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Similar words
Where it appears
Exodus · 5
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Exodus 30:13 מַחֲצִ֥ית מַחֲצִ֣ית [the] half of, <the> half of
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.
Here: "Half of." A small, fixed amount that nearly anyone could pay.
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Exodus 30:15 מִֽמַּחֲצִ֖ית more than [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.
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Exodus 30:23 מַחֲצִית֖וֹ half its
“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
Here: 'Its half'. The plain reading is half the myrrh amount, explained right away as 250. Rabbinic tradition read it as 'half of it is 250', making the cinnamon 500 in total (see debates).
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Exodus 38:26 מַחֲצִ֥ית [the] half of
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.
Leviticus · 2
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Leviticus 6:20 מַחֲצִיתָ֣הּ וּמַחֲצִיתָ֖הּ half its, and half its
“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.
Numbers · 4
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Numbers 31:29 מִמַּֽחֲצִיתָ֖ם from half their
Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
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Numbers 31:30 וּמִמַּחֲצִ֨ת and from [the] half of
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.”
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Numbers 31:42 וּמִֽמַּחֲצִ֖ית and from [the] half of
From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
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Numbers 31:47 מִמַּחֲצִ֣ת from [the] 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.
Joshua · 1
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Joshua 21:25 וּמִֽמַּחֲצִית֙ and from [the] half of
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Taanach and Gath-rimmon—two cities, together with their pasturelands.
Here: "And from the half of." It marks a third donor in the list for the Kohathites, after Ephraim and Dan. "Half" here is the western half of Manasseh, the part settled west of the Jordan.
1 Kings · 1
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1 Kings 16:9 מַחֲצִ֣ית <the> half of
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.
Here: "Half of." The chariot force was apparently split into two divisions, and Zimri controlled one of them, which was a large share of the kingdom's striking power.
1 Chronicles · 2
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1 Chronicles 6:61 מִֽ֠מַּחֲצִית from [the] half of
To the rest of the Kohathites, ten cities were allotted from the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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1 Chronicles 6:70 וּמִֽמַּחֲצִית֙ and from [the] half of
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh the rest of the clans of the Kohathites were given Aner and Bileam, together with their pasturelands.
Nehemiah · 1
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Nehemiah 8:3 מַחֲצִ֣ית [the] middle of
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.
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