מִכְסָה
michsa · number, count
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4373 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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michsa (מִכְסָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “number, count”.
A number, a count of people. It appears only in Exodus 12:4 and Leviticus 27:23.
How to say it
mich·sa
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
- A count of how many there are or what something is worth, to divide or to set a value.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- amount ×1
- number ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 12:4
If the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house shall take one according to the number of persons; you shall make your count for the lamb each according to what he eats.
- Leviticus 27:23
then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of the valuation until the year of jubilee, and he shall give the valuation on that day, as holy to YHWH.