Half - Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament Words
Usage Number: 1
Part Of Speech: Noun
Strong's Number: H2677
Original Word: hasî
Usage Notes: "half; halfway; middle." This word appears about 123 times and in all periods of biblical Hebrew.
First, the word is used to indicate "half" of anything. This meaning first occurs in Exod. 24:6: "And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar."
Second, hasî can mean "middle," as it does in its first biblical appearance: "And it came to pass, that at midnight [literally, "the middle of the night"] the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt…" (Exod. 12:29). In Exod. 27:5, the word means "halfway": "And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst [i.e., up to the middle] of the altar."
Usage Number: 2
Part Of Speech: Verb
Strong's Number: H2673
Original Word: hasâ
Usage Notes: "to divide, reach unto." This verb appears about 15 times in biblical Hebrew and has cognates in Phoenician, Moabite, and Arabic. The word most commonly means "to divide," as in Exod. 21:35: "…Then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it…"