Strong's Hebrew · H2673

חָצָה

châtsâh · khaw-tsaw'

divide, [idiom] live out half, reach to the midst, participle

Definition

to cut or split in two; to halve

Derivation

a primitive root (compare H2086 (זֵד)));

Appears 15 times in Scripture

Numbers 31:27

Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.

Genesis 33:1

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

Judges 7:16

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.

Judges 9:43

So he took his men, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose up against them and attacked them.

Numbers 31:42

From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,

2 Kings 2:8

And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

Genesis 32:7

In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

Exodus 21:35

If a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.

2 Kings 2:14

Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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