Half
מֶחֱצָהStrong’s H4275mechetsah (me-che-tsah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mechetsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “half” and “half of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:”
Meaning
- Halfof spoils
How it's translated
- the half 1
- half of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מֶחֱצָה mechetsah · half
1) half 1a) of spoils
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “half” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
H'ALF, noun
h'af. plural halves, pronoun h'avz.
All definitions and other forms of “half”
H'ALF, verb transitive
To divide into halves. [See Halve.]
H'ALF, adverb
In part, or in an equal part of degree.
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.