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# חֲמִישִׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2549

**fifth** — used 45 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fifth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2549/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲמִישִׁי: f.adj.num.ordin. fifth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2549/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** m. חֲמִישִׁית f.adj.num.ordin. fifth;—m. חֲמִישִׁי Gn 1:23 + 22 times; חֲמִשִׁי Zc 7:3 + 3 times; f. חֲמִישִׁית abs. 1 K 14:25 + 4 times; חֲמִשִׁית Lv 19:25; Je 36:9; חֲמִשִּׁית 1 K 6:31; cstr. חֲמִישִׁית Lv 27:15, 19; sf. חֲמִישִׁתוֹ Lv 5:16 + 2 times; חֲמִשִׁיתוֹ Lv 22:14; 27:31; חֲמִשִׁתוֹ Lv 27:27, cf. חֲמִשִׁתָיו Lv 5:24, read תוֹ- Sam. Di (q.v.);—fifth, usually in enum. days, months, years, sons, etc.; definite, except masc. Gn 1:23; 30:17, fem. Gn 47:24; 1 6:31; Ne 6:5;— m. Gn 1:23; Nu 7:36; 29:26; 33:38; Jos 19:24 (all P), Gn 30:17 (E), Ju 19:8; 2 K 25:8 Je 1:3; 28:1; 52:12; Zc 7:3; 1 Ch 27:8 Ezr 7:8, 9; noun om. 2 S 3:4; 1 Ch 2:14; 3:3; 8:2; 26:3, 4 (all of בֵּן), 1 Ch 24:9; 25:12 (גּוֹרָל), Zc 8:19 (חֹדֶשׁ), 1 Ch 27:8 (יוֹם). f. Lv 19:25; 1 K 14:25 Je 36:9; Ez 1:2; 2 Ch 12:2; פַּעַם ח׳ Ne 6:5. חֲמִשִּׁית 1 K 6:31 as subst. a fifth part, so חֲמִישִׁית Gn 47:24; Lv 5:16, 24; 22:14; 27:13, 27, 31; Nu 5:7; cstr. חֲמִישִׁית כֶּסֶף Lv 27:15, 19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 41 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fifth (31); its (7); \[month\] (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.14/#tree)

נְתַנְאֵל֙ הָֽרְבִיעִ֔י רַדַּ֖י הַחֲמִישִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* Nethanel \[was\].the fourth Raddai \[was\].the fifth

*JPS 1917:* Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth;

[1 Chronicles 12:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.11/#tree)

מִשְׁמַנָּה֙ הָרְבִיעִ֔י יִרְמְיָ֖ה הַחֲמִשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* Mishmannah \[was\].the fourth Jeremiah \[was\].the fifth

*JPS 1917:* Mashmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2549.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2549/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).