Thayer's
STRONGS NT 2255: ἥμισυςἥμισυς,
ἡμίσεια,
ἥμισυ; genitive
ἡμίσους (
Mark 6:23 (the
Sept. Exodus 25:9; etc.), for the uncontracted form
ἡμισεος which is more common in the earlier and more elegant Greek writings (from
Herodotus down)); neuter plural
ἡμίση,
Luke 19:8 R G, a form in use from
Theophrastus down, for the earlier
ἡμισεα adopted by Lachmann (cf.
Passow (also Liddell and Scott), under the word;
Winer's Grammar, § 9, 2 d.;
ἡμίσεια in
T Tr (
ἡμίσιά WH) seems due to a corruption of the copyists, see
Stephanus Thesaurus iv., p. 170; Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. i., p. 248; Alex. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) in Studien und Kritiken for 1862, p. 194f; (N. T. Gram. 14 (13);
Tdf. Proleg., p. 118; but especially
WHs Appendix, p. 158)); the
Sept. for
מַחֲצִית, much more often
חֲצִי;
half; it takes the gender and number of the annexed substantive (where
τό ἥμισυ might have been expected):
τά ἡμίση τῶν ὑπαρχόντων,
Luke 19:8 (so Greek writings say
ὁ ἥμισυς τοῦ βίου,
οἱ ἡμίσεις τῶν ἱππέων, see
Passow, under the word; (Liddell and Scott, under the word,
L 2; Kühner, § 405, 5 c.);
τάς ἡμίσεις τῶν δυνάμεων, 1 Macc. 3:34, 37); neuter
τό ἥμισυ, substantively,
the half; without the article
a half:
ἕως ἡμίσους τῆς βασιλείας μου (
Esther 5:3;
Esther 7:2),
Mark 6:23;
ἥμισυ καιροῦ,
Revelation 12:14; as in classical Greek,
καί ἥμισυ is added to cardinal numbers even where they are connected with masculine and feminine substantives, as
τρεῖς ἡμέρας καί ἥμισυ,
three days and a half, Revelation 11:9, 11 (
ὀψώνειν δυοιν δραχμων καί ἡμίσους,
Ath. 6, p. 274 c.;
δύο or
ἑνός πήχεων καί ἡμίσους,
Exodus 25:16;
Exodus 26:16;
Exodus 38:1 (
Alex.)); with
καί omitted:
Revelation 11:9 Tdf. edition 7 (
μυριάδων ἑπτά ἡμίσους,
Plutarch, Mar. 34).