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Lexicon :: Strong's H4276 - maḥăṣîṯ

Aa
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).
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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 - And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:15 - The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:20 - This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to make to the Lord on the day when he is made a priest: the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering for ever; half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:29 - Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:42 - And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:25 - And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9 - And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:61 - And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:70

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:70 - And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:3 - He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.
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