Half
מַחֲצִיתStrong’s H4276machatsit (ma-cha-tsit)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machatsit is the Hebrew word usually translated “half of”, “from half of” and “half its”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.”
Meaning
- Half, middlehalf · middle, midday, noon
How it's translated
- half of 4
- and from half of 4
- half its 2
- from half of 2
- more than half of 1
- and half its 1
- from half their 1
- middle of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 4
- Numbers 4
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Leviticus 1
- Joshua 1
- 1 Kings 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:15The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
- Exodus 30:23Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
- Exodus 38:26A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
- Leviticus 6:20This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
- Numbers 31:29Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
- Numbers 31:30And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲצִית machatsit · half
1) half, middle 1a) half 1b) middle, midday, noon
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.