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Strong's H2568 חָמֵשׁ (chamesh)

Chamesh means “fifth” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2568 — kaloilimenes (“fair havens”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2568
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 273
Books 21

Strong's H2568 Quick Answer

Strong's H2568 חָמֵשׁ חֲמִשָּׁה (chamesh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chamesh (khaw-maysh') (masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}) n-e. 1. five [a primitive numeral] It has 273 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include five and will. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chamesh (khaw-maysh') (masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}) n-e. 1. five [a primitive numeral]
Usage
273 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
five and will

Meaning and Definition

chamesh (khaw-maysh') (masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}) n-e. 1. five [a primitive numeral] KJV: fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).

Original Word
חָמֵשׁ חֲמִשָּׁה
Transliteration
chamesh
Derivation
Root: חמשׁ
Morphology
n-e.

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2568. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2568 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chamesh, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

five Genesis 5:6 101× will Genesis 45:11

How Strong's H2568 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 273 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2568 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2568 in the Old Testament

273 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 5:6 KJV

And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:

Genesis 5:10 KJV

And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:11 KJV

And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2568.

Genesis 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
Genesis 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:11 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
Genesis 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Genesis 5:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Genesis 5:23 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Genesis 5:30 Old Testament, KJV
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:32 Old Testament, KJV
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 7:20 Old Testament, KJV
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Genesis 11:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Genesis 11:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 12:4 Old Testament, KJV
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 14:9 Old Testament, KJV
With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
Genesis 18:28 Old Testament, KJV
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Genesis 25:7 Old Testament, KJV
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Genesis 43:34 Old Testament, KJV
And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And they drank, and were merry with him.
Genesis 45:6 Old Testament, KJV
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Genesis 45:11 Old Testament, KJV
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Genesis 45:22 Old Testament, KJV
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
Genesis 47:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
Exodus 16:1 Old Testament, KJV
And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 22:1 Old Testament, KJV
If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus 26:3 Old Testament, KJV
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
Exodus 26:9 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:26 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 26:27 Old Testament, KJV
And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
Exodus 26:37 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exodus 27:1 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
Exodus 27:14 Old Testament, KJV
The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 27:15 Old Testament, KJV
And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 27:18 Old Testament, KJV
The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
Exodus 30:23 Old Testament, KJV
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
Exodus 30:24 Old Testament, KJV
And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
Exodus 36:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.
Exodus 36:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
Exodus 36:31 Old Testament, KJV
And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 36:32 Old Testament, KJV
And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
Exodus 36:38 Old Testament, KJV
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Exodus 38:1 Old Testament, KJV
And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
Exodus 38:14 Old Testament, KJV
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 38:15 Old Testament, KJV
And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus 38:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
Exodus 38:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Exodus 38:26 Old Testament, KJV
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Exodus 38:28 Old Testament, KJV
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
Leviticus 23:6 Old Testament, KJV
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Leviticus 23:34 Old Testament, KJV
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:39 Old Testament, KJV
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
Leviticus 26:8 Old Testament, KJV
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus 27:5 Old Testament, KJV
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:6 Old Testament, KJV
And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:7 Old Testament, KJV
And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Numbers 1:21 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:25 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 1:33 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:37 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:41 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 1:46 Old Testament, KJV
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:11 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:23 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:28 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:32 Old Testament, KJV
These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 3:22 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 3:47 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
Numbers 3:50 Old Testament, KJV
Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers 4:48 Old Testament, KJV
Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore,
Numbers 7:17 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Numbers 7:23 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Numbers 7:29 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 7:35 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers 7:41 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers 7:47 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers 7:53 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 7:59 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 7:65 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 7:71 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 7:77 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers 7:83 Old Testament, KJV
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers 8:24 Old Testament, KJV
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers 11:19 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Numbers 18:16 Old Testament, KJV
And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
Numbers 26:18 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 26:22 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 26:27 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 26:37 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
Numbers 26:41 Old Testament, KJV
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
Numbers 26:50 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 28:17 Old Testament, KJV
And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Numbers 29:12 Old Testament, KJV
And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
Numbers 31:8 Old Testament, KJV
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
Numbers 31:28 Old Testament, KJV
And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
Numbers 31:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Numbers 31:36 Old Testament, KJV
And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
Numbers 31:37 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
Numbers 31:39 Old Testament, KJV
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
Numbers 31:43 Old Testament, KJV
(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
Numbers 31:45 Old Testament, KJV
And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
Numbers 33:3 Old Testament, KJV
And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Joshua 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Joshua 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
Joshua 10:16 Old Testament, KJV
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Joshua 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.
Joshua 10:22 Old Testament, KJV
Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.
Joshua 10:23 Old Testament, KJV
And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
Joshua 10:26 Old Testament, KJV
And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
Joshua 13:3 Old Testament, KJV
From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
Joshua 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Judges 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
Judges 8:10 Old Testament, KJV
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
Judges 18:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
Judges 18:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
Judges 18:14 Old Testament, KJV
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Judges 18:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
Judges 20:35 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges 20:45 Old Testament, KJV
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
Judges 20:46 Old Testament, KJV
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2568, grouped by book.

Genesis 22 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 25 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 7 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 48 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 9 usages, Old Testament
Judges 9 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 9 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 13 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 14 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 11 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 21 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 9 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Esther 5 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 45 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2568 FAQ

What does chamesh (חָמֵשׁ) mean?

Chamesh (Strong's H2568) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fifth". chamesh (khaw-maysh') (masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}) n-e. 1. five [a primitive numeral]

How many times is chamesh (חָמֵשׁ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 273 linked usages for Strong's H2568 across 21 books.

Where can I study chamesh (חָמֵשׁ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2568 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chamesh (חָמֵשׁ)?

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