Middle
חָצוֹתStrong’s H2676chatsot (cha-tsot)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chatsot is the Hebrew word usually translated “about middle of” and “middle of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:”
Meaning
- Middle, mid-, half, division
How it's translated
- about middle of 1
- and middle of 1
- middle of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חָצוֹת chatsot · middle
middle, mid-, half, division
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “middle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIDDLE, adjective
mid'l. [Latin medius.]
- Equally distant from the extremes; as the middle point of a line or circle; the middle station of life.
- Intermediate; intervening.
All definitions and other forms of “middle”
MID'DLE, noun
The point or part equally distant from the extremities.
- “See, there come people down by the middle of the land” Judges 9:37
- The time that passes, or events that happen between the beginning and the end.
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.