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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 Box Exo 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13 - Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel[fn] according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),[fn] half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15 - The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD’s offering to make atonement for your lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - “Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a beka[fn] a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:20

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29 - Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - And from the people of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:42 - From the people of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army—

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - from the people of Israel’s half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25 - and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—two cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9 - But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:61

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - To the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:70

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:70 - and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.
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