# H4276 מַחֲצִית

מַחֲצִית (machătsîyth), Strong’s H4276: a halving or the middle KJV: half (so much), mid(-day).. Occurs 16 times.

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*machătsîyth* — a halving or the middle

KJV: half (so much), mid(-day).

Derived from [חָצָה châtsâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H2673) (to cut or split in two)

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַחֲצִית n.f. half, middle
- 1 half of a shekel
- 2 middle = midday, noon

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 30:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=13) — They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the…
- [Exodus 30:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=15) — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of…
- [Exodus 30:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=23) — “Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred…
- [Exodus 38:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/38?v=26) — a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those…
- [Leviticus 6:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/6?v=13) — “This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to the LORD in the day when he is anointed: one…
- [Numbers 31:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=29) — Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the LORD’s wave offering.
- [Numbers 31:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=30) — Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the…
- [Numbers 31:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=42) — Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
- [Numbers 31:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=47) — even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave…
- [Joshua 21:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/21?v=25) — Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasture lands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: two cities.