חֲמִישִׁי
chamishi · fifth
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2549 · appears 45 times in the Bible
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chamishi (חֲמִישִׁי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fifth”.
A fifth part.
How to say it
cha·mi·shi
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The one in fifth place in an order.
- One of five equal parts of something.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Fifth: the ordinal number that corresponds to five (חָמֵשׁ). As a fraction, the fifth part, which in the laws is what is added when giving back or redeeming something.
- The fifth in a series: day, son, month Genesis 1:232 Samuel 3:42 Kings 25:8
- Adding a fifth when restoring or redeeming Leviticus 5:16Numbers 5:7Leviticus 27:13
- A fifth of the harvest for Pharaoh Genesis 47:24
- In the fifth year, the fruit of the tree Leviticus 19:25
- “Five-sided” doorposts 1 Kings 6:31
Historical and cultural background
Joseph established in Egypt that from the harvests “a fifth to Pharaoh” be given (Genesis 47:24). The law asked the one who had sinned to restore what was owed and “add a fifth to it” (Leviticus 5:16).
How we translate it
“Fifth” 44 times, both as an ordinal (“a fifth day”, Genesis 1:23) and as a fraction (“he shall add a fifth to it”, Leviticus 5:16). In 1 Kings 6:31, of the doorposts of the inner sanctuary, “{were} five-sided”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fifth ×44
- were five-sided ×1
Where it appears
- Genesis×3
- Leviticus×9
- Numbers×4
- Joshua×1
- Judges×1
- 2 Samuel×1
- 1 Kings×2
- 2 Kings×1
- 1 Chronicles×10
- 2 Chronicles×1
- Ezra×2
- Nehemiah×1
- Jeremiah×4
- Ezekiel×2
- Zechariah×3
- Genesis 1:23
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
- Genesis 30:17
Elohim heard Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
- Genesis 47:24
And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours, as seed for the field and as your food and for those in your households, and as food for your little ones.”
- Leviticus 5:16
And what he has sinned against the holy thing he shall restore, and he shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make expiation for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.
- Leviticus 6:5
or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall repay it in full and add a fifth of it to it; he shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day of his guilt offering.
- Leviticus 19:25
And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may increase its yield for you. I am YHWH your Elohim.
- Leviticus 22:14
And if a man eats a holy thing by mistake, he shall add a fifth of it to it and give the holy thing to the priest.
- Leviticus 27:13
And if he does wish to redeem it, he shall add a fifth of it to its valuation.
- Leviticus 27:15
And if the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he shall add a fifth of the silver of its valuation to it, and it shall be his.
- Leviticus 27:19
And if the one who consecrates the field does redeem it, he shall add a fifth of the silver of its valuation to it, and it shall stand for him.
- Leviticus 27:27
And if it is among the unclean beasts, he shall ransom it according to its valuation and add a fifth of it to it; and if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold according to its valuation.
- Leviticus 27:31
And if a man does wish to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth of it to it.
- Numbers 5:7
they shall confess their sin that they have committed; and he shall restore in full what he is guilty of, and add to it a fifth of it, and give it to the one against whom he became guilty.
- Numbers 7:36
On the fifth day, the chief of the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai:
- Numbers 29:26
And on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, without defect;
- Numbers 33:38
Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of YHWH and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
- Joshua 19:24
And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families.
- Judges 19:8
On the fifth day he rose early in the morning to go, and the father of the young woman said, “Sustain, please, your heart, and linger until the day declines.” So the two of them ate.
- 2 Samuel 3:4
and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
- 1 Kings 6:31
And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were five-sided.
- 1 Kings 14:25
And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 25:8
In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month —that was year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 2:14
Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
- 1 Chronicles 3:3
the fifth, Shephatiah, of Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah his wife.
- 1 Chronicles 8:2
Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
- 1 Chronicles 12:10
Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
- 1 Chronicles 24:9
for Malchijah the fifth, for Mijamin the sixth,
- 1 Chronicles 25:12
the fifth Nethaniah: his sons and his brothers, twelve;
- 1 Chronicles 26:3
Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.
- 1 Chronicles 26:4
Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
- 1 Chronicles 27:8
The fifth, for the fifth month, was the commander Shamhuth the Izrahite; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 12:2
And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem— because they had been unfaithful to YHWH—
- Ezra 7:8
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month; it was the seventh year of the king.
- Ezra 7:9
For on the first day of the first month was the beginning of the going up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his Elohim upon him.
- Nehemiah 6:5
And Sanballat sent to me according to this word a fifth time his young man with an open letter in his hand.
- Jeremiah 1:3
and it came in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
- Jeremiah 28:1
And it happened in that year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah son of Azzur, the prophet, said to me, who was from Gibeon, in the house of YHWH, before the eyes of the priests and of all the people, saying:
- Jeremiah 36:9
And it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before YHWH for all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 52:12
In the fifth month, on the tenth of the month —that was year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guard, came —he stood before the king of Babylon— into Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 1:2
On the fifth day of the month —it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
And 5 more times.