חָמַשׁ
to take a fifth
‘to take a fifth’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2567 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Genesis 1 verse
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.
At its core, חמש (châmash) means “to take a fifth.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Genesis (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Genesis 41:34. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2567 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
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: Take up the fifth part 1×
- American Standard Version: Take up the fifth part 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Take a fifth 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Let him take a fifth 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2567 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2567 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2567 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2567 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB 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.
- to arrange in multiples of five, take one fifth
- (Piel) to take one fifth, tax a fifth of
Word origin
[ חמשׁ ] vb. denom. only Pi. Gn 41:34 (E) and he shall fifth (take the fifth part of) the land of Egypt
— 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.
חָמֵשׁ
- (b. h.) five (numeral letter ה׳). Snh. V, 3 בחמש (sub. שעות) during the fifth hour of the day. Ib. בחמשה (sub. ימים) on the fifth of the month.—Sabb. 77ᵇ חמשה אימות וכ׳ (sub. מִינֵי), v. אֵימָה. B. Mets. IV, 9 תשלומי ארבעה וח׳ fines of the fourfold or fivefold value (Ex. XXI, 37); a. v. fr.—Pl. חֲמִשִּׁים (נ׳) fifty. R. Hash. 21ᵇ. Ab. V, 21 בן ח׳ at the age of fifty years; a. v. fr.—Denom. חִמֵּשׁ to divide into five.—Part. pass. מְחוּמָּשׁ; f. מְחוּמֶּשֶׁת, pl. מְחוּמָּשׁוֹת. B. Bath. 150ᵃ ובלבד שיהו מח׳ provided the minimum of wool required is equally divided between the five lambs.—חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה f.; חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר m. (ט"ו) fifteen. Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᵇ (ref. to וחמשים, Ex. XIII, 18) בח׳ ע׳ מיני וכ׳ with fifteen kinds of arms. Taan. IV, 8 כח׳ ע׳ באב like the celebration of the fifteenth of Ab; a. fr.—Constr. of חֲמִשָּׁה; חֲמֵשֶׁת. Kidd. 30ᵃ ח׳ אלפים five thousand; a. fr. e.g. Exodus 21:37
חֲמֵשׁ
- Targ. Gen. XLV, 11. Ib. XLVII, 2; a. fr.—Yoma 84ᵃ ח׳ ומעלי וכ׳ on Thursday and on Friday; a. fr.—Pl. חַמְשִׁין fifty. Targ. Num. XXXI, 47; a. fr.—B. Mets. 51ᵃ; a. fr.—חֲמֵישַׁת עַשְׂרָה (חֲמֵישְׁתְּ) fifteen. Targ. O. Lev. XXIII, 6; a. fr.; v. חֲמֵיסַר.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2567, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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