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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 3 / 6 (Num 31:45–2Ki 8:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:45 - 30,500 H2568 donkeys,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - Now they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth H2568 day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the sons of Israel started out [fn]boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - So the five H2568 kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they with all their armies, and camped by Gibeon and fought against it.

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Now these five H2568 kings had fled and hidden themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:17 - And it was told to Joshua, saying, “The five H2568 kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

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Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring these five H2568 kings out to me from the cave.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:23 - They did so, and brought these five H2568 kings out to him from 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 - So afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five H2568 [fn]trees; and they were hung on the [fn]trees until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:3 - from the Shihor which is [fn]east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the five H2568 governors of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - “And now behold, the LORD has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five H2568 years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - These nations are: the five H2568 governors of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as [fn]Lebo-hamath.

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Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their [fn]armies with them, about fifteen H2568 thousand men, all who were left of the entire [fn]army of the [fn]people of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 [fn]swordsmen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:2 - So the sons of Dan sent from their family five H2568 men out of their whole number, [fn]valiant men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it; and they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and stayed overnight there.

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So the five H2568 men departed and came to Laish, and saw the people who were in it living in security, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting; for there was no [fn]oppressive ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

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Then the five H2568 men who went to spy out the country of Laish [fn]said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and [fn]household idols, and a carved image and a cast metal image? Now then, consider what you should do.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - Now the five H2568 men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there; they took the carved image, the ephod, the [fn]household idols, and the cast metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 H2568 men of Benjamin that [fn]day, all who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - [fn]The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but they [fn]caught five H2568 thousand of them on the roads and overtook them [fn]at Gidom, and [fn]killed two thousand of them.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:4 - Then they said, “What is to be the guilt offering that we shall return to Him?” And they said, “Five H2568 gold tumors and five H2568 gold mice corresponding to the number of the governors of the Philistines, since one plague was on all of [fn]you and on your governors.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:16 - When the five H2568 governors of the Philistines saw it, they returned to Ekron that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - and the gold mice, corresponding to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five H2568 governors, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large [fn]stone on which they placed the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5 - And he had a bronze helmet on his head, and he wore scale-armor [fn]which weighed [fn]five H2568 thousand shekels of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:40 - Then he took his staff in his hand and chose for himself five H2568 smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s bag which he had, that is, in his shepherd’s pouch, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:3 - “Now then, what [fn]do you have on hand? Give [fn]me five H2568 loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:18 - Then the king said to Doeg, “You, turn around and [fn]attack the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned around and [fn]attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

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Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine, and five H2568 sheep already prepared and five H2568 measures of roasted grain, and a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and she loaded them on donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:42 - Then Abigail got up quickly, and rode on a donkey, with her five H2568 female attendants who [fn]accompanied her; and she followed the messengers of David and became his wife.

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Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was disabled in both feet. He was five H2568 years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled. But it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and could no longer walk. And his name was [fn]Mephibosheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - “You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master’s grandson will have food [fn]to eat; nevertheless Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, shall [fn]eat at my table regularly.” 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 rushed to the Jordan before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:8 - So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five H2568 sons of [fn]Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - And Joab gave the number of the census of the people to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five H2568 hundred thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:32 - He also told three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered 1,005 H2568.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The lowest story was [fn]five H2568 cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he [fn]made offsets in the wall of the house all around so that the beams would not [fn]be inserted into the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:10 - He also built the stories against the whole house, each [fn]five H2568 cubits high; and they [fn]were attached to the house with timbers of cedar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:24 - The one wing of the first cherub was five H2568 cubits, and the other wing of the first cherub was five H2568 cubits; from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing were ten cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:3 - And it was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the forty-five H2568 pillars, fifteen H2568 in each row.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:16 - He also made two capitals of cast bronze to put on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was [fn]five H2568 cubits and the height of the other capital was [fn]five H2568 cubits.

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He also made the [fn]Sea of cast metal [fn]ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in shape, and its height was five H2568 cubits, and [fn]it was [fn]thirty cubits in circumference.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:39 - Then he placed the stands, five H2568 on the right side of the house and five H2568 on the left side of the house; and he set the [fn]Sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:49 - and the lampstands of pure gold, five H2568 on the right side and five H2568 on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

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These were the [fn]chief officers who were in charge of Solomon’s work, 550 H2568, who ruled over the people doing the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - Jeroboam also [fn]instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth H2568 day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he [fn]went up to the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:33 - Then he [fn]went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth H2568 day in the eighth month, the month that he had [fn]devised [fn]in his own heart; and he [fn]instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and [fn]went up to the altar to burn [fn]incense.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:42 - Jehoshaphat was thirty-five H2568 years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-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 - So there was a severe famine in Samaria; and behold, they kept besieging it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a [fn]kab of dove’s dung for five H2568 shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - One of his servants responded and said, “Please, have some men take five H2568 of the horses that remain, which are left [fn]in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send them and see.”

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Now in the fifth H2568 year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king.


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