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Lexicon :: Strong's H2568 - ḥāmēš

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חָמֵשׁ
Transliteration
ḥāmēš
Pronunciation
khaw-maysh'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive numeral
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TWOT Reference: TWOT- 686a

Strong’s Definitions

חָמֵשׁ châmêsh, khaw-maysh'; masculine חֲמִשָּׁה chămishshâh; a primitive numeral; five:—fif(-teen), fifth, five (× apiece).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 343x

The KJV translates Strong's H2568 in the following manner: five (300x), fifteenth (with H6240) (16x), fifteen (with H6240) (15x), fifth (6x), fifteen (with H7657) (3x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 343x
The KJV translates Strong's H2568 in the following manner: five (300x), fifteenth (with H6240) (16x), fifteen (with H6240) (15x), fifth (6x), fifteen (with H7657) (3x), variant (1x).

  1. five

    1. five (cardinal number)

    2. a multiple of five (with another number)

    3. fifth (ordinal number)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָמֵשׁ châmêsh, khaw-maysh'; masculine חֲמִשָּׁה chămishshâh; a primitive numeral; five:—fif(-teen), fifth, five (× apiece).
STRONGS H2568: Abbreviations
חָמֵשׁ, חֲמִשָּׁה 342 noun masculine and feminine five (Late Hebrew id.; id.; Aramaic חֲמֵשׁ, חַמְשָׁא, Wemfo, aXtwemfo; Phoenician חמשת; Palmyrene חמשא, with masculine noun, ReckendZMG 1888, 408; Assyrian ḫamšu, ḫamiltu Dl§ 75; Ethiopic ኀምስ፡ ኀምስቱ፡ Arabic خَمْسً, خَمْسَةً Sabean & Liḥyânian חֿמס DHMZMG xxix, 613; Epigr. Denkm. 71, 73); — masculine (with noun feminine) absolute חָמֵשׁ Genesis 5:6 + 94 times + Ezekiel 40:30 (strike out Greek Version of the LXXB Hi-Sm Co; Co strike out also in Ezekiel 40:25; Ezekiel 40:29; Ezekiel 40:33; Ezekiel 40:36) + Ezekiel 45:3 Kt (where read feminine with Qr); construct חֲמֵשׁ Genesis 5:10 + 67 times + Ezekiel 48:16 Kt; feminine (with noun masculine) absolute חֲמִשָּׁה see LagBN 80 Genesis 18:28 + 139 times (including Ezekiel 8:16 strike out B Co and others); construct חֲמֵשֶׁת Numbers 3:47 (twice in verse) + 26 times; — on plural חֲמִשִּׁים fifty, see below; — five, in Hexateuch chiefly P; —
1. without other numeral:
a. חָמֵשׁ before feminine plural noun Genesis 43:34 + 35 times; before collective noun צאֹן ח׳ 1 Samuel 25:18; see also בָּאַמָּה ח׳ five in cubit(s)＝five cubits 1 Kings 7:23; 1 Chronicles 11:23; 2 Chronicles 4:2; after noun (late) 2 Kings 8:16 (בִּשְׁנַת חָמֵשׁ לְיוֺרָם＝in the fifth year) + 6 times Chronicles; no noun expressed 1 Kings 7:39 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 7:49 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 3:20; 2 Chronicles 4:7 (twice in verse).
b. חֲמִשָּׁה before masculine plural noun Genesis 47:2 + 18 times; after noun Exodus 36:38 + 36 times Numbers (all P); no noun expressed Genesis 14:9 (only here with article) + 20 times.
c. חֲמֵשׁ before noun (usually defined; except מֵאוֺת, אֲלָפִים, see 3, 4) Exodus 26:3, 9; Exodus 36:10, 16 + Ezekiel 42:16 אַמּוֺת ח׳ Kt, but Qr מאות ח׳, see below.
d. חֲמֵשֶׁת חַמְּלָכִים Joshua 10:5 + 5 times; הָאֲנָשִׁים ח׳ Judges 18:7, 14, 17; שׁקלים ח׳ Numbers 18:16; also, distributive, שְׁקָלִים ח׳ ח׳ Numbers 3:47; הַסְּרָנִים ח׳ Joshua 13:3; Judges 3:3; 1 Samuel 6:18; בני מ׳ ח׳ 2 Samuel 21:8.
e.＝ordinal, בִּשְׁנַת חָמֵשׁ ליורם 2 Kings 8:16 the fifth (year) of Joram; בַּחֲמִשָּׁה לַחֹדֶשׁ on the fifth (day) of the month Ezekiel 1:1, 2; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 33:21; (so also 15th, 25th, etc.)
2. ח׳ combined with עשׂר, עשׂרה ten＝fifteen:
a. חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה (with noun feminine) Genesis 5:10; Genesis 7:20; Exodus 27:14, 15; Exodus 38:14, 15; 2 Kings 14:17, 23; 2 Kings 20:6; 2 Chronicles 15:10; 25:25; Isaiah 38:5.
b. חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר (with noun masculine),
(1) after noun Esther 9:21;
(2) before noun Exodus 16:1 (= ordinal fifteenth, so Leviticus 23:6 +) Hosea 3:2 +.
c. חֲמֵשֶׁת עָשָׂר before noun 2 Samuel 19:18 +.
d. חֲמֵשֶׁת עָשָׂר, without noun＝ordinal fifteenth 1 Chronicles 24:14 +4 times + Ezekiel 45:12 (read חֲמִשִּׁים A Hi Co).
3. חֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֺת＝500 Genesis 5:30, 32 + 49 times + Ezekiel 42:16 Qr.
4. חֲמֵשֶׁת אֲלָפִים＝5000 Numbers 31:32; Joshua 8:12; Judges 20:45; 1 Samuel 17:5; Ezekiel 45:6; Ezekiel 48:15; 1 Chronicles 29:7; 2 Chronicles 35:9; Ezra 1:11; Ezra 2:69; — in 25,000, 35,000 etc. חֲמִשָּׁה (usually without א׳) precedes the 20,000, 30,000, etc.
5. with other numerals:
a. חָמֵשׁ before larger numeral:
(1) noun repeated Genesis 5:6 + 4 times;
(2) noun with 2nd number only, Genesis 5:17 + 8 times + Ezekiel 45:3 Kt;
(3) noun with בְּ with 2nd number Ezekiel 40:21 + 2 times
b. חָמֵשׁ after larger number:
(1) noun repeated Genesis 25:7;
(2) noun following ח׳ (only) Judges 14:10 + (especially in expressions of age and duration);
(3) noun before both numbers, stative absolute, 2 Chronicles 3:15; stative construct 2 Chronicles 15:19.
c. no noun expressed, ח׳ between other number, e.g. ושׁבעים שֵׁשׁ מאות ח׳ Numbers 31:37.
d. חֲמִשָּׁה before larger number, noun following larger number Numbers 1:25 + 22 times
e. ח׳ follows, and
(1) is followed by noun Judges 20:35 + 7 times;
(2) noun precedes both 1 Kings 7:3; Jeremiah 52:30.
f. ח׳ precedes, no noun expressed 1 Kings 5:12.
g. ח׳ follows, no noun expressed Genesis 18:28 +.
h. no noun expressed ח׳ between other number Exodus 38:28; Ezra 2:5.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:6; 5:6; 5:10; 5:10; 5:17; 5:30; 5:32; 7:20; 14:9; 18:28; 18:28; 25:7; 43:34; 47:2

Exodus

16:1; 26:3; 26:9; 27:14; 27:15; 36:10; 36:16; 36:38; 38:14; 38:15; 38:28

Leviticus

23:6

Numbers

1:25; 3:47; 3:47; 18:16; 31:32; 31:37

Joshua

8:12; 10:5; 13:3

Judges

3:3; 14:10; 18:7; 18:14; 18:17; 20:35; 20:45

1 Samuel

6:18; 17:5; 25:18

2 Samuel

19:18; 21:8

1 Kings

5:12; 7:3; 7:23; 7:39; 7:49

2 Kings

8:16; 8:16; 14:17; 14:23; 20:6

1 Chronicles

3:20; 11:23; 24:14; 29:7

2 Chronicles

3:15; 4:2; 4:7; 15:10; 15:19; 25:25; 35:9

Ezra

1:11; 2:5; 2:69

Esther

9:21

Isaiah

38:5

Jeremiah

52:30

Ezekiel

1:1; 1:2; 8:1; 8:16; 33:21; 40:21; 40:25; 40:29; 40:30; 40:33; 40:36; 42:16; 42:16; 45:3; 45:3; 45:6; 45:12; 48:15; 48:16

Hosea

3:2

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2568 matches the Hebrew חָמֵשׁ (ḥāmēš),
which occurs 344 times in 272 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 5:6–Lev 23:39)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:6 - Now Seth lived two hundred and five years, and begot Enos.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - And Enos lived after his begetting Cainan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:11 - And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:15 - And Maleleel lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and he begot Jared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:17 - And all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:21 - And Enoch lived an hundred and sixty and five years, and begat Mathusala.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:23 - And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:30 - And Lamech lived after his begetting Noe, five hundred and sixty and five years, and begot sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:32 - And Noe was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Sem, [fn]Cham, and Japheth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:20 - Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:11 - And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:12 - And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:32 - And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:4 - And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Charrhan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9 - against Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, and Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, the four kings against the five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five wanting? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:7 - And these were the years of the days of the life of Abraam as many as he lived, a hundred and seventy-five years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:34 - And they took their portions from him to themselves; but Benjamin's portion was [fn]five times as much as the portions of the others. And they drank and were filled with drink with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:6 - For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither ploughing, nor mowing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:11 - And I will nourish thee there: for the famine is yet for five years; lest thou be consumed, and thy sons, and all thy possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:22 - And he gave to them all two sets of raiment apiece; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of gold, and five changes of raiment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:2 - And he took of his brethren five men, and set them before Pharao.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - And they departed from Ælim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Ælim and Sina; and on the fifteenth day, in the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:1 - (LXX 21:37) And if one steal [fn]an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall pay five calves for a calf, and four sheep for a sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:3 - And the five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five curtains shall be closely connected the one with the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:9 - And thou shalt join the five skins together, and the six skins together; and thou shalt double the sixth skin in front of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:26 - And thou shalt make bars of incorruptible wood; five to one post on one side of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:27 - and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:37 - And thou shalt make for the veil five posts, and thou shalt gild them with gold; and their chapiters shall be gold; and thou shalt cast for them five brazen sockets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:1 - And thou shalt make an altar of incorruptible wood, of five cubits in the length, and five cubits in the breadth; the altar shall be square, and the height of it shall be of three cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:14 - And the height of the curtains shall be of fifteen cubits for the one side of the gate; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:15 - And for the second side the height of the curtains shall be of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18 - And the length of the court shall be a hundred cubits on each side, and the breadth fifty on each side, and the height five cubits of fine linen spun, and their sockets of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - Do thou also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling calamus,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:24 - and of [fn]cassia five hundred shekels of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38 - (LXX 37:6) and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their chapiters and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:1 - (LXX 38:22) He made the brazen altar of the brazen censers, which belonged to the men engaged in sedition with the gathering of Core.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:14 - (LXX 37:12) and their pillars three, and their sockets three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:15 - (LXX 37:13) And at the second back on this side and on that by the gate of the court, curtains of fifteen cubits, their pillars three and their sockets three;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:18 - (LXX 37:16) and the veil of the gate of the court, the work of an embroiderer of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined; the length of twenty cubits, and the height and the breadth of five cubits, made equal to the curtains of the court;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:25 - (LXX 39:2) And the offering of silver from the men that were numbered of the congregation a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, one drachm apiece, even the half shekel, according to the holy shekel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - (LXX 39:3) Every one that passed the survey from twenty years old and upwards to the number of six hundred thousand, and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:28 - (LXX 39:5) a hundred chapiters to the hundred talents, a talent to a chapiter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:6 - And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34 - Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when ye shall have completely gathered in the fruits of the earth, ye shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest, and on the eighth day a rest.

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