Hebrew

Five

חָמֵשׁStrong’s H2568

chamesh (cha-mesh)

Appears in 272 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Chamesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “five”, “fif-” and “on fif-”. It appears in 272 verses of the Old Testament.

“Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”

Daniel 12:12 KJV

Meaning

Fivefive (cardinal number) · a multiple of five (with another number) · fifth (ordinal number)

How it's translated

five 187
and five 108
fif- 16
on fif- 9
five of 4
on five 4
and on fif- 3
for five 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Numbers 48
Ezekiel 45
Exodus 25
Genesis 22
2 Chronicles 21
2 Kings 14

21 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 272 verses, by book

Genesis 22: 5:6 5:10 5:11 5:15 5:17 5:21 5:23 5:30 5:32 7:20 11:11 11:12 11:32 12:4 14:9 18:28 25:7 43:34 45:6 45:11 45:22 47:2
Exodus 25: 16:1 22:1 26:3 26:9 26:26 26:27 26:37 27:1 27:14 27:15 27:18 30:23 30:24 36:10 36:16 36:31 36:32 36:38 38:1 38:14 38:15 38:18 38:25 38:26 38:28
Leviticus 7: 23:6 23:34 23:39 26:8 27:5 27:6 27:7
Numbers 48: 1:21 1:25 1:33 1:37 1:41 1:46 2:11 2:15 2:19 2:23 2:28 2:32 3:22 3:47 3:50 4:48 7:17 7:23 7:29 7:35 7:41 7:47 7:53 7:59 7:65 7:71 7:77 7:83 8:24 11:19 18:16 26:18 26:22 26:27 26:37 26:41 26:50 28:17 29:12 31:8 31:28 31:32 31:36 31:37 31:39 31:43 31:45 33:3
Joshua 9: 8:12 10:5 10:16 10:17 10:22 10:23 10:26 13:3 14:10
Judges 9: 3:3 8:10 18:2 18:7 18:14 18:17 20:35 20:45 20:46
1 Samuel 9: 6:4 6:16 6:18 17:5 17:40 21:3 22:18 25:18 25:42
2 Samuel 5: 4:4 9:10 19:17 21:8 24:9
1 Kings 13: 4:32 6:6 6:10 6:24 7:3 7:16 7:23 7:39 7:49 9:23 12:32 12:33 22:42
2 Kings 14: 6:25 7:13 8:16 13:19 14:2 14:17 14:23 15:33 18:2 19:35 20:6 21:1 23:36 25:19
1 Chronicles 11: 2:4 2:6 3:20 4:32 4:42 7:3 7:7 11:23 24:14 25:22 29:7
2 Chronicles 21: 3:11 3:12 3:15 4:2 4:6 4:7 4:8 6:13 13:17 15:10 15:19 20:31 25:1 25:25 26:13 27:1 27:8 29:1 33:1 35:9 36:5
Ezra 9: 1:11 2:5 2:8 2:20 2:33 2:34 2:66 2:67 2:69
Nehemiah 8: 6:15 7:13 7:20 7:25 7:36 7:68 7:69 7:70
Esther 5: 9:6 9:12 9:16 9:18 9:21
Job 1: 1:3
Isaiah 6: 7:8 17:6 19:18 30:17 37:36 38:5
Jeremiah 3: 52:22 52:30 52:31
Ezekiel 45: 1:1 1:2 8:1 8:16 11:1 32:17 33:21 40:1 40:7 40:13 40:21 40:25 40:29 40:30 40:33 40:36 40:48 41:2 41:9 41:11 41:12 42:16 42:17 42:18 42:19 42:20 45:1 45:2 45:3 45:5 45:6 45:12 45:25 48:8 48:9 48:10 48:13 48:15 48:16 48:20 48:21 48:30 48:32 48:33 48:34
Daniel 1: 12:12
Hosea 1: 3:2

Hebrew dictionary

חָמֵשׁ chamesh · five

1) five 1a) five (cardinal number) 1b) a multiple of five (with another number) 1c) fifth (ordinal number)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “five” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FIVE, adjective

“FIVE of them were wise, and five were foolish” Matthew 25:2

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.