חֹמֶשׁ
chomesh · fifth
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2569 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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chomesh (חֹמֶשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fifth”.
The fifth part.
How to say it
cho·mesh
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
- One portion out of every five.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 47:26
Joseph made it a statute, to this day, concerning the land of Egypt: to Pharaoh belongs the fifth. Only the land of the priests by itself did not become Pharaoh’s.