2001 Translation

ĒMISOUS, ēmisous

Sounds Like: hay-MEE-soos

Translations: of half, a half

From the root: ΗΜΙΣΥΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word means 'half' and is used to describe a portion or division of something. It functions as an adjective, indicating that something is divided into two equal parts. It can be used to refer to half of a quantity, time, or any other measurable entity.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine or Neuter

Strong’s number: G2255 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:57

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Chronicles — 12:32, 12:38
• 2 Esdras — 13:9, 13:12, 13:17, 13:18
• Esther — 5:3, 5:6, 7:2
• 1 Maccabees — 10:30
• Mark — 6:23

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 14:301
• Book 3 — 6:116, 6:127, 6:139
• Book 7 — 2:57
• Book 8 — 3:83
• Book 12 — 2:64
• Book 13 — 2:49

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 25:9, 25:16, 25:22, 26:16, 27:5, 30:15, 38:24
• Numbers — 31:29, 31:30
• Joshua — 21:5, 21:6, 21:25, 21:27, 22:32, 22:33, 22:34
• 1 Kings — 7:18, 16:9
• 1 Chronicles — 6:61, 6:70, 6:71, 12:31, 12:37, 26:32
• Nehemiah — 3:9, 3:12, 3:17, 3:18, 8:3
• Esther — 5:3, 7:2
• 1 Maccabees — 10:30
• Isaiah — 44:16
• Ezekiel — 40:42
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 7:25

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 6:23

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΗΜΙΣΥΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΗΜΙΣΕΙ — half, a half, (to) half
• ΗΜΙΣΕΙΑ — half, a half
• ΗΜΙΣΕΙΑΝ — half, a half
• ΗΜΙΣΕΙΑΣ — half, a half, of half
• ΗΜΙΣΕΙΣ — half, a half, the half
• ΗΜΙΣΕΩΣ — of half, of a half
• ΗΜΙΣΗ — half
• ΗΜΙΣΙ — half, a half
• ΗΜΙΣΙΑ — half, a half
• ΗΜΙΣΟΥ — half, a half, (of) half
• ΗΜΙΣΥΣ — half, a half

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