cha.mesh H2568

חָמֵשׁ (cha.mesh) means “five” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

חָמֵשׁ Hebrew · H2568 343 tagged occurrences in 272 verses

Pronunciation guide: khaw-maysh' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2568

חָמֵשׁ · cha.mesh · five

1) five 1a) five (cardinal number) 1b) a multiple of five (with another number) 1c) fifth (ordinal number)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

masculine חֲמִשָּׁה; a primitive numeral; five

KJV glosses: fif(-teen), fifth, five ([idiom] apiece).

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How translators render H2568

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
five	82
and five	24
on the fifteenth	11
was five	9
cubits	7
fifteen	5
to be five	5
and cubits	3
cubits long	3
on the fifth	3
the five	3
and	2
and the other five	2
for fifteen	2
from the cubits	2
numbered	2
shekels	2
so the five	2
the fifteenth	2
vvv	2
which will be cubits long	2
about five	1
also measured five	1
an adjacent area cubits	1
an area cubits	1
and cubits long	1
and fifteenth	1
and five others	1
and his fifteen	1
and the five	1
and their five	1
and there were five	1
and there will be five	1
and when the five	1
as well as five	1
as well as the five	1
belonging to the five	1
by cubits	1
by five	1
each five	1
eighty-five	1
every five	1
fifteen cubits long	1
five in all	1
five loaves of	1
for fifteen shekels	1
for five	1
for the lack of five	1
from five	1
had fifteen	1
had five	1
in the fifteenth	1
in the fifth	1
it will be cubits	1
measured five	1
measuring five	1
men twenty-five	1
of about fifteen	1
of cubits	1
of fifteen	1
of five	1
of the entrance were fifteen	1
of the fifteenth	1
on the fifth day	1
or five	1
shall be cubits	1
shall have an area	1
sold for five shekels	1
that begins on the fifteenth	1
that of the five	1
the ground five	1
then the five	1
there were	1
there will be five	1
was seventy-five	1
were also fifteen	1
were five	1
will be cubits	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
five	132
and five	116
fifteen	9
of five	8
the five	7
and the five	5
in the fifteenth	4
in the fifth	4
the fifteenth	4
on the fifteenth	3
with five	3
about five	2
and on the fifteenth	2
and threescore and fifteen	2
he was five	2
in the five	2
those five	2
was five	2
also in the fifteenth	1
and fifteen	1
and fifth	1
and his fifteen	1
and in the fifteenth	1
and in the fifth	1
and the fifteenth	1
and when the five	1
but their five	1
but these five	1
by five	1
even unto five	1
for five	1
from five	1
had fifteen	1
her to me for fifteen	1
him five	1
i pray thee five	1
nor five	1
of fifteen	1
on the one side and five	1
on this side and five	1
shall be fifteen	1
shall five	1
them on five	1
then the five	1
therefore the five	1
thereof and five	1
thereof and on the fifteenth	1
threescore and fifteen	1
to the five	1
unto the five	1
with them about fifteen	1

Verses containing H2568

Page 3 of 6. 272 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Numbers 31:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
30,500 donkeys,
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Numbers 33:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,
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Joshua 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
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Joshua 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
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Joshua 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
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Joshua 10:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”
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Joshua 10:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.”
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Joshua 10:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
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Joshua 10:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.
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Joshua 13:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;
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Joshua 14:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,
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Judges 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.
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Judges 8:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
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Judges 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
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Judges 18:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone.
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Judges 18:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
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Judges 18:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
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Judges 20:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
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Judges 20:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
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Judges 20:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence
That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
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1 Samuel 6:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
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1 Samuel 6:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.
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1 Samuel 6:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
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1 Samuel 17:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,
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1 Samuel 17:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.
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1 Samuel 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.4
1 Samuel 22:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
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1 Samuel 25:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
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1 Samuel 25:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
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2 Samuel 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
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2 Samuel 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You and your sons and servants are to work the ground for him and bring in the harvest, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, is always to eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
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2 Samuel 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
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2 Samuel 21:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
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2 Samuel 24:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
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1 Kings 4:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
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Source alternate reference: 5.12
1 Kings 6:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.
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1 Kings 6:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
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1 Kings 6:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences
One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.
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1 Kings 7:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
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1 Kings 7:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
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1 Kings 7:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
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1 Kings 7:39 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
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1 Kings 7:49 · BSB · 2 occurrences
the lampstands of pure gold in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right side and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
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1 Kings 9:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
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1 Kings 12:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
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1 Kings 12:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
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1 Kings 22:42 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
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2 Kings 6:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
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2 Kings 7:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
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2 Kings 8:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.
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