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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 לְיוֺרָםin 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 tenfifteen:
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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 4 / 6 (2Ki 13:19–Ezr 2:66)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19 - So the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five H2568 or six times, then you would have struck Aram until you would have consumed it. But now you shall strike Aram only three times.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:2 - He was twenty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:17 -

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen H2568 years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:23 -

In the fifteenth H2568 year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria and reigned forty-one years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:33 - He was twenty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:2 - He was twenty-five H2568 years old when he became king; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 -

Now it happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went out and struck 185,000 H2568 in the camp of the Assyrians. And the [fn]men arose early in the morning, and behold, all of [fn]them were dead bodies.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - “And I will add fifteen H2568 years to your [fn]life, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.”’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:1 -

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36 -

Jehoiakim was twenty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - And from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and five H2568 [fn]of the king’s advisers who were found in the city; and the [fn]scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:4 -

Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah.

Judah had five H2568 sons in all.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:6 -

The sons of Zerah were [fn]Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and [fn]Dara;

five H2568 of them in all.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:20 -

and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five H2568.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five H2568 cities;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:42 - From them, from the sons of Simeon, five H2568 hundred men went to Mount Seir, with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, as their chiefs.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:3 -

The [fn]son of Uzzi was Izrahiah.

And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five H2568 of them were chief men.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7 -

The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five H2568. They were heads of fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 recorded by genealogy.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23 - He had also struck down an Egyptian, [fn]an impressive man, [fn]five H2568 cubits tall. Now in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:14 -

the fifteenth H2568 for Bilgah,

the sixteenth for Immer,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:22 -

for the fifteenth H2568 to Jeremoth, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:7 - and for the service for the house of God they gave 5,000 H2568 talents and 10,000 [fn]darics of gold, and 10,000 talents of silver, and 18,000 talents of brass, and 100,000 talents of iron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:11 - Now the wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five H2568 cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five H2568 cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:12 - And the wing of the other cherub, of five H2568 cubits, touched the wall of the house; and its other wing of five H2568 cubits was attached to the wing of the [fn]first cherub.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:15 -

He also made two pillars for the front of the house, [fn]thirty-five H2568 cubits [fn]high, and the capital on the top of each was five H2568 cubits.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:2 - And he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five H2568 cubits, and [fn]thirty cubits in [fn]its circumference.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:6 - He also made ten lavers and set five H2568 on the right side and five H2568 on the left, in which to wash things, that is, in which they would rinse things for the burnt offering; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:7 -

Then he made the ten golden lampstands [fn]in the way prescribed for them and he put them in the temple, five H2568 on the right side and five H2568 on the left.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:8 - He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five H2568 on the right side and five H2568 on the left. And he made one hundred golden bowls.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:13 - Now Solomon had made a bronze platform, five H2568 cubits long, five H2568 cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - And Abijah and his people struck them down with a great slaughter, and 500,000 H2568 chosen men of Israel fell slain.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:10 - So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth H2568 year of Asa’s reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:19 - And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth H2568 year of Asa’s reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:31 -

Thus Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five H2568 years. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:1 -

Amaziah was twenty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:25 -

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen H2568 years after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:13 - And under their hand was a [fn]mighty army of 307,500 H2568, who could wage war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:1 -

Jotham was twenty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:8 - He was twenty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:1 -

Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five H2568 years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:1 -

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the [fn]officials of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 H2568 from the flocks and 500 H2568 bulls.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 -

Jehoiakim was twenty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - All the articles of gold and silver numbered 5,400 H2568. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:5 -

the sons of Arah, 775 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:8 -

the sons of Zattu, 945 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:20 -

the sons of [fn]Gibbar, 95 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:33 -

the sons of Lod, Hadid and Ono, 725 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:34 -

the [fn]men of Jericho, 345 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:66 -

Their horses were 736; their mules, 245 H2568;


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