מַחֲצִיתmachătsîyth

Meanings

Same root

• חָצָהchâtsâh · H2673to cut or split in two; to halve

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

• Exodus 30:13 Each person who is counted must give a small piece of silver as a sacred offering to the Lord. (This payment is half a shekel, based on the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.)
• Exodus 30:15 When this offering is given to the Lord to purify your lives, making you right with him, the rich must not give more than the specified amount, and the poor must not give less.
• Exodus 30:23 “Collect choice spices—12 1⁄2 pounds of pure myrrh, 6 1⁄4 pounds of fragrant cinnamon, 6 1⁄4 pounds of fragrant calamus,
• Exodus 38:26 This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census. (The tax is one beka, which is half a shekel, based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550 men who had reached their twentieth birthday.
• Leviticus 6:20 “On the day Aaron and his sons are anointed, they must present to the Lord the standard grain offering of two quarts of choice flour, half to be offered in the morning and half to be offered in the evening.
• Numbers 31:29 Give this share of the army’s half to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord.