Lexical Summary chatsi: half Original Word: חֵצִיTransliteration: chatsi Phonetic Spelling: (khay-tsee') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: half Meaning: the half, middle Strong's Concordance half, middle, midnight, midst, part, two parts From chatsah; the half or middle -- half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts. see HEBREW chatsah Brown-Driver-Briggs H2677. chatsi חֲצִי123 noun masculineNumbers 12:12 half (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician חצי; on formative see LagBN 113) — absolute חֲצִי 1 Kings 3:25 (twice in verse) + 3t.; הַחֵ֑צִי 10:7, compare 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 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, 28:14 (P); curtain Exodus 26:12 (P); week ׳ח השׁבוע Daniel 9:27 etc.; ׳ח אַמָּה half a cubit Exodus 26:16; 36:21 (P) +; especially ׳ח שׁבט half a tribe Numbers 32:33; 34:13-14, 15 (P) +; half of people 2 Samuel 18:3; 19:41; 1 Kings 16:21 (3 t. in verse) +, etc. so ׳ח הַמְּנֻחוֺת 1 Chronicles 2:52 and ׳ח הַמָּנַחְתִּי 2:54 (see Be and מָנַחַת below נוח). — On כבחצי 1 Samuel 14:4 see We Dr. 2 middle ׳ח הלילה 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; ׳ח יָמַי Psalm 102:25 the midst of my days (when they are but half done), Jeremiah 17:11. |