Fifth
חֲמִישִׁיStrong’s H2549chamishi (cha-mi-shi)
Appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamishi is the Hebrew word usually translated “fifth”, “fifth its” and “fifth part of”. It appears in 44 verses of the Old Testament.
“And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
Meaning
- Ordinal number, 5th
How it's translated
- fifth 22
- the fifth 10
- fifth its 5
- and fifth its 2
- fifth part of 2
- in the fifth 2
- a fifth 1
- and the fifth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- 1 Chronicles 9
- Numbers 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Genesis 3
- Zechariah 3
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 7:5In contextSpeak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
- Zechariah 8:19In contextThus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
- Genesis 1:23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
- Genesis 30:17And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
- Genesis 47:24And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
- Leviticus 5:16And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
All 44 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֲמִישִׁי chamishi · fifth
ordinal number, 5th
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fifth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FIFTH, adjective
[See Five.]
- The ordinal of five; the next to the fourth.
- Elliptically, a fifth part; or the word may be considered as a noun, as to give a fifth or two fifths.
All definitions and other forms of “fifth”
FIFTH, noun
In music, an interval consisting of three tones and a semitone.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.