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title: חמשׁ — and he shall fifth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חמשׁ (2571), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: and he shall fifth. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חמשׁ

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«חמשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **and he shall fifth** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 2571 · **BDB:** חמשׁ

### Glosses

arrayed.for.battle (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

and he shall fifth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2571/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** (√ of foll.; meaning unknown).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חמשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2571/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 13:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.13.18/)

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וַיַּסֵּ֨ב אֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ אֶת־הָעָ֛ם דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר יַם־ס֑וּף וַחֲמֻשִׁ֛ים עָל֥וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.caused.to.go.around God (et) the people the.way of the.wilderness \[the\].sea of.reed\[s\] and arrayed.for.battle they.went.up the.people of.Israel from the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* But God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

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[Joshua 4:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.4.12/)

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וַ֠יַּעַבְרוּ בְּנֵי־רְאוּבֵ֨ן וּבְנֵי־גָ֜ד וַחֲצִ֨י שֵׁ֤בֶט הַֽמְנַשֶּׁה֙ חֲמֻשִׁ֔ים לִפְנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר דִּבֶּ֥ר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֹשֶֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and they.passed.over the.descendants of.Reuben and the.descendants of.Gad and the.half of.the.tribe of.(the) Manasseh arrayed.for.battle before the.people of.Israel just as he.had.spoken to them Moses

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed on armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke unto them;

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