ἥμισυς, 
-εια, 
-υ; genitive 
ἡμίσους (
Mark 6:23 [
Sept. Exodus 25:9; etc.], for the uncontracted form 
ἡμισεος which is more common in the earlier and more elegant Greek writings [from Herodotus down]); neuter plural 
ἡμίση, 
Luke 19:8 R G, a form in use from Theophrastus down, for the earlier 
ἡμίσεα adopted by Lachmann (cf. Passow [also Liddell and Scott], under the word; Winer's Grammar § 9, 2 d.; 
ἡμίσεια in T Tr [
ἡμίσια WH] seems due to a corruption of the copyists, see Stephanus Thesaurus iv., p. 170; 
Bttm. Ausf. Spr. i., p. 248; 
Alexander Buttmann (1873) in Studien und Kritiken for 1862, p. 194f; 
[N. T. Gram. 14 (13); 
Tdf. Proleg., p. 118; but especially 
WHs Appendix, p. 158]); 
Sept. for 
מַחֲצִית, much more often 
חֲצִי; 
half; it takes the gender and number of the annexed substantive (where 
τὸ ἥμισυ might have been expected): 
τὰ ἡμίση τῶν ὑπαρχόντων, 
Luke 19:8 (so Greek writings say 
ὁ ἥμισυς τοῦ βίου οἱ ἡμίσεις τῶν ἱππέων, see Passow, under the word; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, L 2; Kühner, § 405, 5 c.); 
τὰς ἡμίσεις τῶν δυνάμεων, 1 Macc. 3:34, 37); neuter 
τὸ ἥμισυ, substantively, 
the half; without the article 
a half: 
ἕως ἡμίσους τῆς βασιλείας μου (
Esther 5:3; 
Esther 7:2), 
Mark 6:23; 
ἥμισυ καιροῦ, 
Revelation 12:14; as in classical Greek, 
καὶ ἥμισυ is added to cardinal numbers even where they are connected with masculine and feminine substantives, as 
τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ ἥμισυ, 
three days and a half, Revelation 11:9, 
11 (
ὀψωνεῖν δυοῖν δραχμῶν καὶ ἡμίσους, 
Ath. 6, p. 274 c.; 
δύο or 
ἑνὸς πήχεων καὶ ἡμίσους, 
Exodus 25:16; 
Exodus 26:16; 
Exodus 38:1 [
Alex.]); with 
καὶ omitted: 
Revelation 11:9 Tdf. edition 7 (
μυριάδων ἑπτὰ ἡμίσους, Plutarch, Mar. 34). 
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