חָמֵשׁ
châmêsh · khaw-maysh'
five
Lexicon
Derivation: masculine חֲמִשָּׁה; a primitive numeral;
five
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: fif(-teen), fifth, five ([idiom] apiece).
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy
To separate and protect of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָמֵשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
343 occurrences · 343 OT · 0 NT · 87 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and five115 · 39%
- five97 · 33%
- was five15 · 5%
- of five7 · 2%
- the five7 · 2%
- fifteen7 · 2%
- were five6 · 2%
- and the five5 · 2%
- the fifteenth4 · 1%
- on the fifteenth3 · 1%
- month, in the fifth3 · 1%
- in the fifteenth3 · 1%
- and on the fifteenth2 · 1%
- and threescore and fifteen2 · 1%
- with five2 · 1%
- those five2 · 1%
- shall be five2 · 1%
- in the five2 · 1%
- he was five2 · 1%
- even five1 · 0%
- thee; for yet there are five1 · 0%
- and yet there are five1 · 0%
- threescore and fifteen1 · 0%
- for lack of five1 · 0%
- and fifteen1 · 0%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.