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# חָמַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2567

**and he shall fifth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse 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/1495/2567/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חמשׁ²: vb.denom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2567/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. only וְחִמֵּשׁ אֶת־אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם Gn 41:34 (E) and he shall fifth (take the fifth part of) the land of Egypt, i.e. the fifth part of the produce (cf. Arabic خَمَسَ take a fifth part; Ethiopic ኀመሰ 1. 2 quinque facere).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: he will take a fifth of (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 41:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.34/#tree)

יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה פַרְעֹ֔ה וְיַפְקֵ֥ד פְּקִדִ֖ים עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְחִמֵּשׁ֙ אֶת־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם בְּשֶׁ֖בַע שְׁנֵ֥י הַשָּׂבָֽע׃

*Word for word:* let.him.act Pharaoh and let.him.appoint overseers over the land and he.will.take.a.fifth.of (et) the.land of.Egypt in seven the.years of.(the) plenty

*JPS 1917:* Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2567.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2567/): 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).