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Joshua 13:31
“And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2677 · Hebrew
- Definition
- the half or middle
- Derivation
- from H2673 (חָצָה)lemma חָעָה ayin, corrected to חָצָה;
- KJV renderings
- half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- חֲצִ֤י — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 123 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 12:29Exodus 24:6Exodus 24:6Exodus 25:10Exodus 25:10
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חֵצִי here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.