machatsit · half

What it means

machatsit (מַחֲצִית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “half”.

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 the two equal parts of something, like «half a shekel» or half of a tribe.
2. The middle of the day: noon, when the sun is high.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• half ×15
• middle ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×4
• Joshua×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1

• Exodus 30:13

  This they shall give, everyone who passes over to those numbered: half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to YHWH.

• Exodus 30:15

  The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when giving the contribution of YHWH to make expiation for your lives.

• Exodus 30:23

  “And you, take for yourself the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,

• Exodus 38:26

  a beka per head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

• Leviticus 6:20

  “This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to YHWH on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

• Numbers 31:29

  From their half you shall take it and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to YHWH.

• Numbers 31:30

  And from the half of the sons of Israel you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, of all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep the charge of the dwelling of YHWH.”

• Numbers 31:42

  And from the half of the sons of Israel, which Moses had divided from the men who had fought

• Numbers 31:47

  from the half of the sons of Israel Moses took the one drawn out of every fifty, of the people and of the animals, and gave them to the Levites who kept the charge of the dwelling of YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Joshua 21:25

  And from the half tribe of Manasseh: Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands —two cities.

• 1 Kings 16:9

  His servant Zimri, commander of half the chariots, conspired against him. He was in Tirzah, drinking and drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

• 1 Chronicles 6:61

  And to the sons of Kohath who remained, from the family of the tribe, from half of the tribe, half of Manasseh, fell by lot ten cities.

• 1 Chronicles 6:70

  and from the half tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its pasturelands, and Balaam with its pasturelands, for the family of the sons of Kohath who remained.

• Nehemiah 8:3

  And he read in it before the square that is in front of the Water Gate, from the light until the middle of the day, in front of the men and the women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were toward the book of the law.

And 2 more times.