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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

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 2 / 6 (Lev 26:8–Num 31:43)

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:8 - and five H2568 of you will pursue one hundred, and one hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - ‘If it be from five H2568 years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6 - ‘But if they are from a month even up to five H2568 years old, then your valuation shall be five H2568 shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - ‘If they are from sixty years old and upward, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen H2568 shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - their numbered men of the tribe of Gad were 45,650 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - their numbered men of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37 - their numbered men of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - their numbered men of the tribe of Asher were 41,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - even all the numbered men were 603,550 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - and his army, even his numbered men, 46,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - and his army, even their numbered men, 45,650 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - and his army, even their numbered men, 40,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:23 - and his army, even their numbered men, 35,400 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 - and his army, even their numbered men, 41,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 -

These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, 603,550.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:47 - you shall take five H2568 [fn]shekels apiece H2568, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty [fn]gerahs),

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:50 - from the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, 1,365 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:48 - their numbered men were 8,580 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:17 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:23 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:29 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:35 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:41 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:47 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:53 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:59

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:59 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:65

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:65 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:71

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:71 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:77

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:77 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:83

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:83 - and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five H2568 rams, five H2568 male goats, five H2568 male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:24 - “This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five H2568 years old and upward [fn]they shall enter to perform their duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:19 - ‘You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five H2568 days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:16 - “Now as to their redemption price, from a month old you shall redeem them, by your valuation, five H2568 [fn]shekels in silver, according to the [fn]shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 -

These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, 40,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 -

These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, 76,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:27 -

These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, 60,500 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37 -

These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, 32,500 H2568.

These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 -

These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,600 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 -

These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,400 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:17 - ‘And on the fifteenth H2568 day of this month shall be a feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:12 -

‘Then on the fifteenth H2568 day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8 - They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five H2568 kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:28 - “And you shall exact a levy for Yahweh from the men of war who went out to battle, one [fn]in five H2568 hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 -

Now the loot that remained from the plunder which the [fn]men of war had plundered was 675,000 H2568 sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 -

And the half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500 H2568;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:37 - and the levy of Yahweh from the sheep was 675 H2568;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:39 - and the donkeys were 30,500 H2568, from which the levy of Yahweh was 61;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:43 - now the congregation’s half was 337,500 H2568 sheep,

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