חֵצִי
chêtsîy · khay-tsee'
the half or middle
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2673 (חָצָה)lemma חָעָה ayin, corrected to חָצָה;
the half or middle
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › to pursue the straight path › the hand that works
To separate and protect that works to pursue the straight path of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חֵצִי 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
125 occurrences · 125 OT · 0 NT · 55 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and half20 · 21%
- and a half14 · 15%
- and the half10 · 11%
- of the half9 · 10%
- half7 · 7%
- and an half5 · 5%
- in the midst4 · 4%
- and to the half4 · 4%
- and out of the half2 · 2%
- even to the half2 · 2%
- part2 · 2%
- and of the half2 · 2%
- the midst1 · 1%
- and from half1 · 1%
- among them; half1 · 1%
- the half1 · 1%
- i unto the half1 · 1%
- their inheritance; and half1 · 1%
- and unto half1 · 1%
- shall be half1 · 1%
- with half1 · 1%
- and to half1 · 1%
- is half1 · 1%
- unto the midst1 · 1%
- and it came to pass, that at midnight1 · 1%
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.