חָמֵשׁ
cha.mesh
“five”
Definition
five
masculine חֲמִשָּׁה; a primitive numeral;
- five 1a) five (cardinal number) 1b) a multiple of five (with another number) 1c) fifth (ordinal number)
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun
H:N
Hebrew Noun
Occurrences
חָמֵשׁ appears 265 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
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.
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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.”
So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
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