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Hebrew wordlink #40338

OSHB Exo 30:13 מַחֲצִית (maḩₐʦīt) Strongs=4276 Lemma=‘מַחֲצִית’
contextual word gloss=‘(the)_half_of’ word gloss=‘half_of’
Morphology=Ncfsc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=construct
Year=-1491 TimeSeries=Tabernacle_Built

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Other uses (4) of identical word form מַחֲצִית (Morphology=Ncfsc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=construct) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘מַחֲצִית’ (Morphology=Ncfsc PoS=common_noun Gender=feminine Number=singular State=construct) has 4 different glosses: ‘(the)_half_of’, ‘of_(the)_half_of’, ‘the_half_of’, ‘the_middle_of’.

EXO 30:13 contextual word gloss=‘the_half_of’ word gloss=‘half_of’ OSHB EXO 30:13 word 7

OET-LV: 13 This every _of they _will _pay (the)_one_who_passes _over to those_ the _half _of _enrolled of_the _shekel by_the _shekel _of the _holy _place is_twenty gerah[s] the_shekel (the)_half _of the _shekel is_a _contribution to/for_YHWH. (EXO_30:13)

OET-RV: 13 As each man crosses over to stand with those who’ve been counted, he must pay give a half-shekel coin as an offering to me. (That’s half of the official shekel weight of 12 grams.) (EXO 30:13)

EXO 38:26 contextual word gloss=‘the_half_of’ word gloss=‘half_of’ OSHB EXO 38:26 word 3

OET-LV: 26 A _beka for_head the _half _of the _shekel by_the _shekel _of the _holy _place to_all/each/any/every (the)_one_who_passed _over to those_enrolled from_a _son _of twenty year[s] and_(to)_upwards to_six hundred(s) thousand and_three _of thousand(s) and_five hundred(s) and_fifty. (EXO_38:26)

OET-RV: 26 During the census, every male who was twenty years old or older paid a 5g silver coin—a total of 603,550 men. (EXO 38:26)

1 KI 16:9 contextual word gloss=‘of_(the)_half_of’ word gloss=‘half_of’ OSHB 1 KI 16:9 word 6

OET-LV: 9 And_he _conspired on/upon/above_him/it servant _of_his Zimrī the _commander _of (the)_half _of the _chariotry and_he in_Tirʦāh was_drinking drunken the _house _of ʼArʦāh who was_over the_household in_Tirʦāh. (KI1_16:9)

OET-RV: 9 However, his servant Zimri who was the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Once when Elah was in Tirtsah getting himself drunk at the house of Arza (who was in charge of the palace), (KI1 16:9)

NEH 8:3 contextual word gloss=‘the_middle_of’ word gloss=‘noon_of’ OSHB NEH 8:3 word 12

OET-LV: 3 And_he/it _called in_him/it to_(the)_face _of/in _front _of/before the _open_space which to_(the)_face _of/in _front _of/before the _gate _of the_waters from the_light until the _middle _of the_day before the_men and_the_women and_those_who_understood and_the _ears _of all _of the_people were_to the _scroll _of the _law. (NEH_8:3)

OET-RV: 3 and he read it aloud in the plaza near the Water Gate—reading from dawn until the middle of the day in front of those men and women and interested people, who all listened intently. (NEH 8:3)