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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.
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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

H2568

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Strong's Number H2568 matches the Hebrew חָמֵשׁ (ḥāmēš),
which occurs 345 times in 272 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 6 (Num 31:45–2Ki 8:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:45 - And thirty thousand asses and five H2568 hundred,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth H2568 day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And he took about five H2568 thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - Therefore the five H2568 kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:16 - But these five H2568 kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:17 - And it was told Joshua, saying, The five H2568 kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:22 - Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five H2568 kings unto me out of the cave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:23 - And they did so, and brought forth those five H2568 kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:26 - And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five H2568 trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:3 - From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five H2568 lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five H2568 years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five H2568 years old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - Namely, five H2568 lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen H2568 thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:2 - And the children of Dan sent of their family five H2568 men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:7 - Then the five H2568 men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - Then answered the five H2568 men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - And the five H2568 men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five H2568 thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five H2568 thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five H2568 thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:4 - Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five H2568 golden emerods, and five H2568 golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:16 - And when the five H2568 lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five H2568 lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5 - And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five H2568 thousand shekels of brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five H2568 smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:3 - Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five H2568 loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:18 - And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five H2568 persons that did wear a linen ephod.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18 - Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five H2568 sheep ready dressed, and five H2568 measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five H2568 damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:4 - And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five H2568 years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen H2568 sons and twenty servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen H2568 sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:8 - But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five H2568 sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five H2568 hundred thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:32 - And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. H2568

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The nethermost chamber was five H2568 cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:10 - And then he built chambers against all the house, five H2568 cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:24 - And five H2568 cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five H2568 cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:3 - And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five H2568 pillars, fifteen in a row.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:16 - And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five H2568 cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five H2568 cubits:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23 - And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five H2568 cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:39 - And he put five H2568 bases on the right side of the house, and five H2568 on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:49

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:49 - And the candlesticks of pure gold, five H2568 on the right side, and five H2568 on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:23 - These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five H2568 hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth H2568 day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33 - So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth H2568 day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:42 - Jehoshaphat was thirty and five H2568 years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five H2568 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:25 - And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five H2568 pieces of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five H2568 of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:16 - And in the fifth H2568 year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

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