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# חָצוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2676

**division** — used 3 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

division [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2676/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָצוֹת: n.f. division, middle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2676/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (Inf. form.) division, middle—only cstr. כַּחֲצֹת הַלַּיְלָה Ex 11:4 (J)—midnight; חֲצוֹת לַיְלָה Jb 34:20 ψ 119:62, where adverb. phr. of time (בְּ om.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] middle (1); middle (1); the middle (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:62](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.62/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.62/#tree)

חֲצֽוֹת־לַ֗יְלָה אָ֭קוּם לְהוֹד֣וֹת לָ֑ךְ עַ֝֗ל מִשְׁפְּטֵ֥י צִדְקֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].middle of.\[the\].night I.arise to give.thanks to you on the.judgments your.righteousness your

*JPS 1917:* At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto Thee because of Thy righteous ordinances.

[Exodus 11:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.11.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.11.4/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֔ה כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה כַּחֲצֹ֣ת הַלַּ֔יְלָה אֲנִ֥י יוֹצֵ֖א בְּת֥וֹךְ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Moses thus he.says Yahweh about the.middle of the.night I \[am\].about.to.go.out in the.midst of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And Moses said: 'Thus saith the LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2676.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2676/): 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).