Chamesh חָמֵשׁ

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Chamesh
חָמֵשׁ
Transliterationchamesh
Strong's numberH2568
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechnoun
Glossfive
Occurrences343 in 272 verses
Most frequent inNumbers (48)

Chamesh (Hebrew חָמֵשׁ, Strong's H2568) is a Hebrew noun meaning “five”. It occurs 343 times in 272 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) five
1a) five (cardinal number)
1b) a multiple of five (with another number)
1c) fifth (ordinal number)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVfive (300), fifteenth (16), fifteen (13), fifth (6)
BSBfive (139), fifteenth (16), fifteen (10), fifth (4), there will be five (2), other five (2), shekels (2), numbered (2), which will be (2), was seventy five (1), lack of five (1), was five (1), and 20 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Chamesh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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