חֲצִי₁₂₃ noun masculine^{Numbers 12:12} half (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician חצי; on formative see Lag^{BN 113}) — absolute חֲצִי 1 Kings 3:25 (twice in verse) + 3t.; הַחֵ֑צִי 1 Kings 10:7, compare 1 Kings 16:21; וָחֵ֔צִי Ezekiel 40:42; וָחֵצִי Daniel 12:7 13t. (usually with Pashta or Tiphcha), compare בַּחֵ֖צִי 2 Samuel 10:4; 1 Chronicles 19:4; construct חֲצִי Exodus 12:29 84t.; suffix חֶצְיוֺ Exodus 38:4 7t. + Joshua 8:33 וְהַחֶצְיוֺ (but article suspicious. see Ges^{§ 127} R 3, 4); חֶצְיָהּ Nehemiah 3:38; חֶצְיֵנוּ 2 Samuel 18:3; חֶצְיָם Zechariah 14:8 (twice in verse) + 2t. —

1 half of anything: — blood of offering Exodus 24:6 (twice in verse) (JE), beard 2 Samuel 10:4, a hin Numbers 15:9,10; Numbers 28:14 (P); curtain Exodus 26:12 (P); week השׁבוע ׳ח Daniel 9:27 etc.; אַמָּה ׳ח half a cubit Exodus 26:16; Exodus 36:21 (P) +; especially שׁבט ׳ח half a tribe Numbers 32:33; Numbers 34:13,14,15 (P) +; half of people 2 Samuel 18:3; 2 Samuel 19:41; 1 Kings 16:21 (3 t. in verse) +, etc. so הַמְּנֻחוֺת ׳ח 1 Chronicles 2:52 and הַמָּנַחְתִּי ׳ח 1 Chronicles 2:54 (see Be and מָנַחַת below נוח). — On כבחצי 1 Samuel 14:4 see We Dr.

2 middle הלילה ׳ח Exodus 12:29 (J) midnight, so Judges 16:3 (twice in verse); Ruth 3:8; of garments 2 Samuel 10:4; 1 Chronicles 19:4; altar Exodus 27:5; of the Mt. of Olives Zechariah 14:4; יָמַי ׳ח Psalm 102:25 the midst of my days (when they are but half done), Jeremiah 17:11.