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# מַחֲצִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4276

**half** — used 16 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/1502/4276/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲצִית: n.f. half, middle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4276/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. half, middle—cstr. מַחֲצִית Ex 30:13(×2) + 8 times; מַחֲצִת Nu 31:30, 47; sf. מַחֲצִיתוֹ Ex 30:23, מַחֲצִיתָהּ Lv 6:13(×2), מַחֲצִיתָם Nu 31:29— half of a shekel Ex 30:13(×2), 15 cf. v 23; 38:26; the flour for offering Lv 6:13(×2), of spoils Nu 31:29, 30, 42, 47; of tribe Jos 21:25 (all P), 1 Ch 6:46, 55; of chariots 1 K 16:9. middle מ׳ היּוֹם=midday, noon Ne 8:3 (cf. midnight, חָצוֹת, חֲצִי 2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 2 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: the half (8); half (4); (the) half (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 31:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.29/#tree)

מִמַּֽחֲצִיתָ֖ם תִּקָּ֑חוּ וְנָתַתָּ֛ה לְאֶלְעָזָ֥ר הַכֹּהֵ֖ן תְּרוּמַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* from half their you.will.take.\[it\] and you.will.give.\[it\] to Eleazar the priest the.contribution of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, as a portion set apart for the LORD.

[Numbers 31:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.42/#tree)

וּמִֽמַּחֲצִ֖ית בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֲשֶׁר֙ חָצָ֣ה מֹשֶׁ֔ה מִן־הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים הַצֹּבְאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and from the.half of.the.people of.Israel which he.had.divided Moses from the men \[who had\].gone.to.war

*JPS 1917:* And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4276.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4276/): 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).