HebrewH2568Noun

חָמֵשׁ

cha.mesh

265Occurrences
H2568Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

five

masculine חֲמִשָּׁה; a primitive numeral;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. five 1a) five (cardinal number) 1b) a multiple of five (with another number) 1c) fifth (ordinal number)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

H:N

Full Description

Hebrew Noun

Occurrences

חָמֵשׁ appears 265 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
48
Ezk
45
Exodus
24
Genesis
22
2 Chronicles
21
2 Kings
14
1 Kings
12
1 Chronicles
11

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 11:23BSB

He also killed an Egyptian, a huge man five cubits tall. Although the Egyptian had a spear like a weaver’s beam in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club, snatched the spear from his hand, and killed the Egyptian with his own spear.

2 Kings 14:2BSB

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

Ezk 40:7BSB

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Genesis 18:28BSB

suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?”He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

Nehemiah 6:15BSB

So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.

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