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ἥμισυ

half

G2255 Strong's Greek
hḗmisy Transliteration
/hay'-mee-soo/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 5 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“half” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective ημισυ (hḗmisy). With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than half of its appearances fall in Revelation. First canonically at Mark 6:23, it enters the text early. It shares a root with αμα, αμαω and αμμος. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
half
Modern gloss
half
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G2255 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

5
distinct verses
The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
3 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
Mark 6:23
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Mark 6:23.
Revelation 12:14
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 12:14.
#1,648
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 2 · 40%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 3 · 60%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.

  • Johannine 3 verses · 60%
  • Revelation 3 verses · 60%
  • Gospels 2 verses · 40%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 20%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Half 5×
  • American Standard Version: Half 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Half 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Half 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2255 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Half” 5×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2255 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Half” 5×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2255 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Half” 5×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2255 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Half” 5×

Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. half

Word origin

Derived from αμα (háma) (G260) — together.

Part of speech: Adjective

Neuter of a derivative from an inseparable prefix akin to G260 (through the idea of partition involved in connection ) and meaning semi- ; (as noun) half : - half.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms G2255 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἥμισυ hḗmisy Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Revelation 11:9 3
ἡμίσειά hēmíseiá Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Luke 19:8 1
ἡμίσους hēmísous Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter Mark 6:23 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2255, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ημισυ appears 125 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 108 verses in 18 books.

125
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
108
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
18 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2255) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 108. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2255) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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