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Lexicon :: Strong's H2568 - ḥāmēš

Aa
חָמֵשׁ
Transliteration
ḥāmēš
Pronunciation
khaw-maysh'
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive numeral
Dictionary Aids

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 5 / 6 (Ezr 2:67–Eze 42:19)

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:67 -

their camels, 435 H2568; their donkeys, 6,720.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:69 - According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for the work 61,000 gold [fn]drachmas and 5,000 H2568 silver [fn]minas and 100 priestly tunics.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:15 -

So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth H2568 of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:13 -

the sons of Zattu, 845 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:20 -

the sons of Adin, 655 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:25 -

the sons of [fn]Gibeon, 95 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:36 -

the [fn]men of Jericho, 345 H2568;

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67 -

besides their male and their female slaves, [fn]of whom there were 7,337;

and they had 245 H2568 male and female singers.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:69 -

their camels, 435 H2568; their donkeys, 6,720.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:70 -

Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The [fn]governor gave to the treasury 1,000 gold [fn]drachmas, 50 bowls, 530 H2568 priests’ tunics.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:6 - And at the citadel in Susa the Jews killed and caused to perish 500 H2568 men,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:12 - So the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and caused to perish 500 H2568 men and the 10 sons of Haman at the citadel in Susa. Now in the rest of the king’s provinces, what have they done? So what is [fn]your petition? It shall even be given to you. And what is [fn]your further request? It shall also be done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:16 -

Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces assembled, to make a stand for their lives and obtain rest for themselves from their enemies, and to kill 75,000 H2568 of those who hated them; but they did not send forth their hand for the plunder.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:18 -

But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth [fn]of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth H2568 [fn]day and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - to establish among them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth H2568 day [fn]of the same month, annually,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3 - His possessions also were 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 H2568 pairs of oxen, 500 H2568 female donkeys, and very many servants; and that man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:8 - “For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five H2568 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 -

Yet gleanings will remain in it like the [fn]shaking of an olive tree,

Two or three olives on the topmost branch,

Four or five H2568 on the twigs of a fruitful tree,

Declares Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 -

In that day five H2568 cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to Yahweh of hosts; one will be called the City of [fn]Destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:17 -

One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;

You will flee at the threat of five H2568,

Until you are left as a [fn]flag on a mountain top

And as a [fn]standard on a hill.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:5 - “Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen H2568 years to your [fn]life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:22 - Now a capital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five H2568 cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:30 - in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took away into exile 745 H2568 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:31 -

Now it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth H2568 of the month, that [fn]Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison;

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:1 -

Now it happened in the thirtieth year, on the fifth H2568 day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, that the heavens were opened, and I saw [fn]visions of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:2 - (On the fifth H2568 of the month [fn]in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:1 -

Now it happened in the sixth year, on the fifth H2568 day of the sixth month, as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of Lord Yahweh fell on me there.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 -

Then He brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five H2568 men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east; and they were [fn]prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:1 -

Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of Yahweh which faced eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate, there were twenty-five H2568 men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:17 -

Now it happened in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth H2568 of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:21 -

Now it happened in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth H2568 of the tenth month, that those who escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been struck down.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:1 -

In the twenty-fifth H2568 year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that same day the hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He brought me there.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7 - The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five H2568 cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate [fn]facing inward was one rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - He measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five H2568 cubits from one door to the door opposite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:21 - [fn]It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches [fn]had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was [fn]fifty cubits and the width twenty-five H2568 cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:25 - [fn]The gate and its porches had windows all around like [fn]those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five H2568 cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:29 - Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches were according to those same measurements. And [fn]the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five H2568 cubits wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:30 - There were porches all around, twenty-five H2568 cubits long and five H2568 cubits wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:33 - Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches were according to those same measurements. And [fn]the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five H2568 cubits wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:36 - with its guardrooms, its side pillars, and its porches. And [fn]the gate had windows all around; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five H2568 cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48 -

Then he brought me to the porch of the house and measured each side pillar of the porch, five H2568 cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the [fn]sides of the entrance were five H2568 cubits on each side. And he measured [fn]the length of the nave, [fn]forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:9 - The [fn]thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five H2568 cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the house
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:11 - The [fn]doorways of the [fn]side chambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the place of the free space was five H2568 cubits all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:12 -

The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was [fn]seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five H2568 cubits [fn]thick all around, and its length was [fn]ninety cubits.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - He measured on the east [fn]side with the measuring reed 500 H2568 reeds by the measuring reed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - He measured on the north side 500 H2568 reeds by the measuring reed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:18 - On the south side he measured 500 H2568 reeds with the measuring reed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:19 - He turned to the west side and measured 500 H2568 reeds with the measuring reed.

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