Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
half
Usage: 1) half, middle 1a) half 1b) middle, midday, noon
machatsiyth - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4276 — proelpizo (“first trust”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4276 מַחֲצִיתּ (machatsiyth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. machatsiyth (makh-ats-eeth') n-f. 1. a halving or the middle [from H2673] It has 14 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include half. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
machatsiyth (makh-ats-eeth') n-f. 1. a halving or the middle [from H2673] KJV: half (so much), mid(-day). Root(s): H2673
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4276. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
half
Usage: 1) half, middle 1a) half 1b) middle, midday, noon
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render machatsiyth, 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.
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.
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.
14 indexed usages in Old Testament.
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
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,
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4276.
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
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,
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.
This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4276, grouped by book.
Strong's H4276 is a Hebrew entry for H4276 מַחֲצִיתּ (machatsiyth). machatsiyth (makh-ats-eeth') n-f. 1. a halving or the middle [from H2673]
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's H4276 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4276 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as half. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.