Fifth
חֹ֫מֶשׁStrong’s H2569chomesh (cho-mesh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chomesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “fifth part”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.”
Meaning
- Fifth part
How it's translated
- to the fifth part 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֹ֫מֶשׁ chomesh · fifth
fifth part
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.