חֲצִי123 noun masculine[Num 12:12] half (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician חצי; on formative see LagBN 113) — absolute חֲצִי [1Kgs 3:25] (twice in verse) + 3 t.; הַחֵ֑צִי [1Kgs 10:7], compare [1Kgs 16:21] וָחֵ֔צִי [Ezek 40:42] וָחֵצִי [Dan 12:7] + 13 t. (usually with Pashta or Tiphcha), compare בַּחֵ֖צִי [2Sam 10:4]; [1Chr 19:4] construct חֲצִי [Exod 12:29] + 84 t.; suffix חֶצְיוֺ [Exod 38:4] + 7 t. + [Josh 8:33] וְהַחֶצְיוֺ (but article suspicious. see Ges«GKC:127»§ 127 R 3, 4); חֶצְיָהּ [Neh 3:38] חֶצְיֵנוּ [2Sam 18:3] חֶצְיָם [Zech 14:8] (twice in verse) + 2 t. —
1. half of anything: — blood of offering [Exod 24:6] (twice in verse) (JE), beard [2Sam 10:4], a hin [Num 15:9]; [Num 15:10]; [Num 28:14] (P); curtain [Exod 26:12] (P); week השׁבוע ׳ח [Dan 9:27] etc.; אַמָּה ׳ח half a cubit [Exod 26:16]; [Exod 36:21] (P) +; especially שׁבט ׳ח half a tribe [Num 32:33]; [Num 34:13]; [Num 34:14]; [Num 34:15] (P) +; half of people [2Sam 18:3]; [2Sam 19:41]; [1Kgs 16:21] (3 t. in verse) +, etc. so הַמְּנֻחוֺת ׳ח [1Chr 2:52] and הַמָּנַחְתִּי ׳ח v[1Chr 2:54] (see Be and מָנַחַת below נוח). — On כבחצי [1Sam 14:4] see We Dr.
2. middle הלילה ׳ח [Exod 12:29] (J) midnight, so [Judg 16:3] (twice in verse); [Ruth 3:8] of garments [2Sam 10:4]; [1Chr 19:4] altar [Exod 27:5] of the Mt. of Olives [Zech 14:4] יָמַי ׳ח [Ps 102:25] the midst of my days (when they are but half done), [Jer 17:11].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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