חָמַשׁ
chamash · take a fifth
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2567 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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chamash (חָמַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “take a fifth”.
Collect a fifth of the harvest.
How to say it
cha·mash
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
- To set aside for the king one of every five measures of the harvest.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Genesis 41:34
Let Pharaoh act, and appoint overseers over the land, and take a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.