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title: מַחֲצִית — half · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחֲצִית (4276), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 16 times: half. BDB 1906: n.f. half, middle. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחֲצִית

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«מַחֲצִית» in the Tanakh dictionary: **half** — 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:** 16 times · **Key:** 4276 · **BDB:** מַחֲצִית

### Glosses

the.half (8); half (4); (the).half (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

half [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4276/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. half, middle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4276/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. half, middle—cstr. מַחֲצִית Ex 30:13(×2) + 8 times; מַחֲצִת Nu 31:30, 47; sf. מַחֲצִיתוֹ Ex 30:23, מַחֲצִיתָהּ Lv 6:13(×2), מַחֲצִיתָם Nu 31:29— half of a shekel Ex 30:13(×2), 15 cf. v 23; 38:26; the flour for offering Lv 6:13(×2), of spoils Nu 31:29, 30, 42, 47; of tribe Jos 21:25 (all P), 1 Ch 6:46, 55; of chariots 1 K 16:9. middle מ׳ היּוֹם=midday, noon Ne 8:3 (cf. midnight, חָצוֹת, חֲצִי 2).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַחֲצִית» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4276/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 31:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.29/)

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מִמַּֽחֲצִיתָ֖ם תִּקָּ֑חוּ וְנָתַתָּ֛ה לְאֶלְעָזָ֥ר הַכֹּהֵ֖ן תְּרוּמַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* from half their you.will.take.\[it\] and you.will.give.\[it\] to Eleazar the priest the.contribution of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, as a portion set apart for the LORD.

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[Numbers 31:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.42/)

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וּמִֽמַּחֲצִ֖ית בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֲשֶׁר֙ חָצָ֣ה מֹשֶׁ֔ה מִן־הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים הַצֹּבְאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and from the.half of.the.people of.Israel which he.had.divided Moses from the men \[who had\].gone.to.war

*JPS 1917:* And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred —

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