חֲמִישִׁי
fifth
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H2549 appears in the Book of Ezra — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra
- Ezra 7:8 הַ/חֲמִישִׁ֑י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
- Ezra 7:9 הַ/חֲמִישִׁ֗י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms For on the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.
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.
חמישי — transliterated chămîyshîy — is a Hebrew adjective carrying the sense “fifth.” Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 1:23. It appears 44 verses across 15 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. It shares a root with חמש, חמש and חמשים. See the sense tree, 44-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2549 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 44
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 44 distinct verses.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #810
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 810 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 44 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 9 verses 20%
- 1 Chronicles 9 verses 20%
- Numbers 4 verses 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 44 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 16 verses · 36%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 34%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 13 verses · 30%
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: Fifth 33×, Came to pass in the fifth 2×, Day of the fifth 2×
- American Standard Version: Fifth 31×, Came to pass in the fifth 2×, Fifth part 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fifth 39×, Day of the fifth 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fifth 35×, Fifth month 3×, And 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2549 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2549 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2549 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2549 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. m. Gn 1:23; Nu 7:36; 29:26; 33:38; Jos 19:24 (all P), Gn 30:17 (E), Ju 19:8; 2 K 25:8 Je 1:3; 28:1; 52:12; Zc 7:3; 1 Ch 27:8 Ezr 7:8, 9; noun om. 2 S 3:4; 1 Ch 2:14; 3:3; 8:2; 26:3, 4 (all of בֵּן), 1 Ch 24:9; 25:12 (גּוֹרָל), Zc 8:19 (חֹדֶשׁ), 1 Ch 27:8 (יוֹם). e.g. Genesis 1:23
- 2. f. Lv 19:25; 1 K 14:25 Je 36:9; Ez 1:2; 2 Ch 12:2; פַּעַם ח׳ Ne 6:5. e.g. Leviticus 19:25
- 3. חֲמִשִּׁית 1 K 6:31 as subst. a fifth part, so חֲמִישִׁית Gn 47:24; Lv 5:16, 24; 22:14; 27:13, 27, 31; Nu 5:7; cstr. חֲמִישִׁית כֶּסֶף Lv 27:15, 19. e.g. 1 Kings 6:31
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
m. חֲמִישִׁית f.adj.num.ordin. fifth;—m. חֲמִישִׁי Gn 1:23 + 22 times; חֲמִשִׁי Zc 7:3 + 3 times; f. חֲמִישִׁית abs. 1 K 14:25 + 4 times; חֲמִשִׁית Lv 19:25; Je 36:9; חֲמִשִּׁית 1 K 6:31; cstr. חֲמִישִׁית Lv 27:15, 19; sf. חֲמִישִׁתוֹ Lv 5:16 + 2 times; חֲמִשִׁיתוֹ Lv 22:14; 27:31; חֲמִשִׁתוֹ Lv 27:27, cf. חֲמִשִׁתָיו Lv 5:24, read תוֹ- Sam. Di (q.v.);—fifth, usually in enum. days, months, years, sons, etc.; definite, except masc. Gn 1:23; 30:17, fem. Gn 47:24; 1 6:31; Ne 6:5;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חמש (châmêsh) (H2568) — five.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲמִישִׁי
- fifth; (sub. יום) the fifth day of the week. Meg. I, 2, sq.; a. fr.—Fem. חֲמִישִׁית. Ib. III, 4 בח׳ on the fifth Sabbath; a. fr.—Esp. (Lev. V, 24) the penalty of the fifth part added to the indemnity. B. Kam. 65ᵇ.—Pl. חֲמִישִׁיּוֹת. Ib. (ref. to חֲמִשִׁתָיו, Lev. l. c.) ח׳ הרבה וכ׳ (ed. חֲמִשִׁ׳) repeated penalties connected with one object of indemnity. e.g. Leviticus 5:24
חֲמִישַׁי
- Targ. Gen. I, 23 (ed. Amst. שָׁאִי …); a. fr.—Fem. חֲמִישֵׁיתָא, שִׁיתָא … Targ. Lev. XIX, 25.—Pesik. R. s. 23 (ed. Fr. p. 115ᵇ) חֲמִישְׁתָּא; ib. (p. 120ᵃ) חמשיתא (corr. acc.) the fifth day of the week.—V. חֲמְשִׁיתָא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 36 distinct written forms H2549 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2549, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 42 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 44 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:23
- Leviticus 5:16
- Numbers 5:7
- Joshua 19:24
- Judges 19:8
- 2 Samuel 3:4
- 1 Kings 6:31
- 2 Kings 25:8
- 1 Chronicles 2:14
- 2 Chronicles 12:2
- Ezra 7:8
- Jeremiah 1:3
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
