chetsi · half

What it means

chetsi (חֵצִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “half”.

Also the middle.

How to say it

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

1. One of two equal parts of something.
2. The central point of something, like the middle of the night.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Half; the middle of something. It comes from חָצָה, “to divide in two”.

• Half of the blood of the covenant Exodus 24:6
• “Two cubits and a half”: measurements Exodus 25:10
• “Give half to the one and half to the other” 1 Kings 3:25
• The half tribe of Manasseh Joshua 1:12
• “At midnight” Exodus 12:29
• “A time, times, and half {a time}” Daniel 12:7

How we translate it

“Half” 109 times, “middle” 8, “midnight” 4, “halfway” 1, “halves” 1. “Half” with the tribe of Manasseh and in measurements (“a cubit and a half”); חֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה, “midnight”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• half ×109
• middle ×8
• midnight ×4
• halfway ×1
• halves ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×20
• Numbers×8
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×29
• Judges×2
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×10
• 1 Chronicles×11
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×13
• Esther×3
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×2
• Zechariah×6

• Exodus 12:29

  At midnight YHWH struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.

• Exodus 24:6

  Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.

• Exodus 25:10

  They shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 25:17

  You shall make a cover of expiation of pure gold: two cubits and a half its length and a cubit and a half its width.

• Exodus 25:23

  You shall make a table of acacia wood: two cubits its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 26:12

  As for the overhang that remains in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains shall hang over the back of the dwelling.

• Exodus 26:16

  Ten cubits shall be the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

• Exodus 27:5

  You shall put it under the ledge of the altar, below, so that the network reaches halfway up the altar.

• Exodus 36:21

  Ten cubits was the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.

• Exodus 37:1

  And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 37:6

  And he made a cover of expiation of pure gold; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width.

• Exodus 37:10

  And he made the table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, and a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 38:4

  And he made for the altar a grating, a work of network of bronze, under its ledge, from below up to its middle.

• Numbers 12:12

  Please do not let her be like the dead one who, when he comes out of the womb of his mother, has half his flesh eaten away.”

• Numbers 15:9

  one shall present with the young bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:10

  and wine you shall present for the libation, half a hin, a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 28:14

  And their libations shall be half a hin for a bull, and a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb, of wine. This is the burnt offering of each month for the months of the year.

• Numbers 32:33

  Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within their borders, the cities of the land all around.

• Numbers 34:13

  Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the land that you shall take as inheritance by lot, which YHWH has commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half tribe.

• Numbers 34:14

  For the tribe of the sons of the Reubenites by their fathers’ house and the tribe of the sons of the Gadites by their fathers’ house have taken, and the half tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance.

• Numbers 34:15

  The two tribes and the half tribe have taken their inheritance on this side of the Jordan opposite Jericho, eastward, toward the sunrise.”

• Deuteronomy 3:12

  This land we took possession of at that time. From Aroer, which is by the Wadi Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

• Deuteronomy 3:13

  The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (As for all that Bashan, it is called a land of Rephaim.

• Deuteronomy 29:8

  And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

• Joshua 1:12

  And to the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to half the tribe of Manasseh Joshua said,

• Joshua 4:12

  The sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed in battle formation before the sons of Israel, just as Moses had spoken to them.

• Joshua 8:33

  And all Israel, with its elders and supervisors and its judges, were standing on this side and on that side of the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, the resident alien as well as the native, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of YHWH had commanded, to bless the people of Israel at the first.

• Joshua 10:13

  And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the book of the Upright? The sun stopped in the middle of the heavens and did not hurry to go down for about a whole day.

• Joshua 12:2

  Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

• Joshua 12:5

  and ruled over Mount Hermon and over Salecah and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

• Joshua 12:6

  Moses the servant of YHWH and the sons of Israel struck them, and Moses the servant of YHWH gave it as a possession to the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 13:7

  And now divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh.”

• Joshua 13:25

  And their territory was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer, which is east of Rabbah;

• Joshua 13:29

  And Moses gave to the half tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to their families.

• Joshua 13:31

  and half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the sons of Machir son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir, according to their families.

• Joshua 14:2

  by lot was their inheritance, just as YHWH had commanded through Moses, for the nine tribes and the half tribe.

• Joshua 14:3

  For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half tribe beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he did not give an inheritance among them.

• Joshua 18:7

  For the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of YHWH is their inheritance; and Gad, Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses the servant of YHWH gave them.”

• Joshua 21:5

  And the rest of the sons of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 21:6

  And the sons of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

And 83 more times.