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# חמשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2571

**and he shall fifth** — used 4 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

and he shall fifth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2571/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll.; meaning unknown).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: arrayed for battle (4).

## In the verses

[Exodus 13:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.18/#tree)

וַיַּסֵּ֨ב אֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ אֶת־הָעָ֛ם דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר יַם־ס֑וּף וַחֲמֻשִׁ֛ים עָל֥וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.caused.to.go.around God (et) the people the.way of the.wilderness \[the\].sea of.reed\[s\] and arrayed.for.battle they.went.up the.people of.Israel from the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

[Joshua 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.4.12/#tree)

וַ֠יַּעַבְרוּ בְּנֵי־רְאוּבֵ֨ן וּבְנֵי־גָ֜ד וַחֲצִ֨י שֵׁ֤בֶט הַֽמְנַשֶּׁה֙ חֲמֻשִׁ֔ים לִפְנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר דִּבֶּ֥ר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֹשֶֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and they.passed.over the.descendants of.Reuben and the.descendants of.Gad and the.half of.the.tribe of.(the) Manasseh arrayed.for.battle before the.people of.Israel just as he.had.spoken to them Moses

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed on armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke unto them;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2571.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2571/): 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).