ἡμίσευμα
half
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἡμίσευμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 31:36 ἡμίσευμα And the half, even the portion of them that went out to war, from the number of the sheep, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 31:42 ἡμίσευμα from the half belonging to the children of Israel, whom Moses separated from the men of war.
- Numbers 31:43 ἡμίσευμα And the half taken from the sheep, belonging to the congregation, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 31:47 ἡμίσευμα And Moses took of the half belonging to the children of Israel the fifties part, of men and of cattle, and he gave them to the Levites who keep the charges of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
About this word
About this word
ἡμίσευμα (hēmíseuma), “half,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
