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Lexicon :: Strong's H4276 - maḥăṣîṯ

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מַֽחֲצִית
Transliteration
maḥăṣîṯ
Pronunciation
makh-ats-eeth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 719e

Strong’s Definitions

מַחֲצִית machătsîyth, makh-ats-eeth'; from H2673; a halving or the middle:—half (so much), mid(-day).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H4276 in the following manner: half (15x), much (1x), midday (with H3117) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H4276 in the following manner: half (15x), much (1x), midday (with H3117) (1x).

  1. half, middle

    1. half

    2. middle, midday, noon

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַחֲצִית machătsîyth, makh-ats-eeth'; from H2673; a halving or the middle:—half (so much), mid(-day).
STRONGS H4276: Abbreviations
† מַחֲצִית noun feminine half, middle — construct מַחֲצִית Exodus 30:13 (twice in verse) + 8 times; מַחֲצִת Numbers 31:30, 47; suffix מַחֲצִיתוֺ Exodus 30:23, מַחֲצִיתָהּ Leviticus 6:13 (twice in verse), מַחֲצִיתָם Numbers 31:29 — מַחֲצִת Numbers 31:30 Numbers 31:47 suffix מַחֲצִיתוֹ >Exodus 30:23, מַחֲצִיתָהּ Leviticus 6:13 (twice in verse), מַחֲצִיתָם Numbers 31:29 —
1. half of a shekel Exodus 30:13 (twice in verse); + 8 timesExodus 30:15 compare Exodus 30:23; Exodus 38:26; the flour for offering Leviticus 6:13 (twice in verse), of spoils Numbers 31:29, 30, 42, 47; of tribe Joshua 21:25 (all P), 1 Chronicles 6:46; 1 Chronicles 6:55; of chariots 1 Kings 16:9.
2. middle היּוֺם מ׳ = midday, noon Nehemiah 8:3 (compare midnight, H2676 חָצוֺת, חֲצִי 2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

30:13; 30:13; 30:15; 30:23; 30:23; 30:23; 38:26

Leviticus

6:13; 6:13; 6:13

Numbers

31:29; 31:29; 31:29; 31:30; 31:30; 31:30; 31:42; 31:47; 31:47; 31:47

Joshua

21:25

1 Kings

16:9

1 Chronicles

6:46; 6:55

Nehemiah

8:3

H4276

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4276 matches the Hebrew מַֽחֲצִית (maḥăṣîṯ),
which occurs 16 times in 14 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13 - “This is what everyone who is counted shall give [as he joins those already counted]: a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel (the shekel is twenty gerahs); a half shekel as a contribution to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15 - “The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when you give this contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - “Take for yourself the best spices: five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much—two hundred and fifty—of sweet-scented cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty of fragrant cane,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a beka for each man (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary) for everyone who was counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:20 - “This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to present to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: the tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29 - “Take this tribute from the warriors’ half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “From the Israelites’ half [of the spoil] you shall take one out of every fifty of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, the flocks, and of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who are in charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:42 -

As for the Israelites’ half, which Moses separated from that of the warriors—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty, both of persons and animals, and gave them to the Levites, who were in charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25 - From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9 - His servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against Elah. Now Elah was in Tirzah, getting drunk in the house of Arza, who was in charge of the [king’s] household in Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 -

Then to the rest of the sons of Kohath were given ten cities by lot from the family of the tribe [of Ephraim and of Dan and], from the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:70

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:70 - and from the half-tribe of Manasseh [these cities], with their pasture lands: Aner and Bileam, for the rest of the families of the sons of Kohath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - Then he read from it, in front of the open square which was in front of the Water Gate, from [fn]early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and women, those who could understand; and [fn]all the people listened carefully to the Book of the Law.
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