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# מֶחֱצָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4275

**half** — used 2 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

half [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4275/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶחֱצָה: n.f. half [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4275/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. half, of spoils;—abs. מֶחֱצָה Nu 31:36; cstr. מֶחֱצַת Nu 31:43 (both P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 31:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.43/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֛י מֶחֱצַ֥ת הָעֵדָ֖ה מִן־הַצֹּ֑אן שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֙לֶף֙ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים אֶ֔לֶף שִׁבְעַ֥ת אֲלָפִ֖ים וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.half of the.congregation from the sheep three hundred(s) thousand and thirty thousand seven thousand(s) and five hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,

[Numbers 31:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.36/#tree)

וַתְּהִי֙ הַֽמֶּחֱצָ֔ה חֵ֕לֶק הַיֹּצְאִ֖ים בַּצָּבָ֑א מִסְפַּ֣ר הַצֹּ֗אן שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֙לֶף֙ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים אֶ֔לֶף וְשִׁבְעַ֥ת אֲלָפִ֖ים וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the half the.portion of \[those.who.had\].gone.out in the army the.number of the.sheep \[was\].three hundred(s) thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand(s) and five hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4275.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4275/): 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).