חֹמֶשׁchômesh

fifth part, read perhaps הַחֹמֶשׁ (Genesis 47:26)

Pronunciation: kho'-mesh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2569

Same root

חָמַשׁchâmash · H2567to tax a fifth

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

Genesis 47:26 Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in the land of Egypt, that Pharaoh should receive one-fifth of all the crops grown on his land. Only the land belonging to the priests was not given to Pharaoh.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).