Half
Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words [1]
A. Noun.
Chêtsı̂y ( חֲצִי , Strong'S #2677), “half; halfway; middle.” This word appears about 123 times and in all periods of biblical Hebrew. First, the word is used to indicate “half” of anything. This meaning first occurs in Exod. 24:6: “And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.” Second, chêtsı̂y can mean “middle,” as it does in its first biblical appearance: “And it came to pass, that at midnight [literally, “the middle of the night”] the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt …” (Exod. 12:29). In Exod. 27:5, the word means “halfway”: “And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst [i.e., up to the middle] of the altar.”
B. Verb.
Châtsâh ( חָצָה , Strong'S #2673), “to divide, reach unto.” This verb appears about 15 times in biblical Hebrew and has cognates in Phoenician, Moabite, and Arabic. The word most commonly means “to divide,” as in Exod. 21:35: “… Then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it.…”
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( adv.) In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious.
(2): ( a.) Part; side; behalf.
(3): ( a.) One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; - sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple.
(4): ( a.) Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
(5): ( a.) Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
(6): ( v. t.) To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
an adjective, is used (a) as such in the neuter plural, in Luke 19:8 , lit., "the halves (of my goods);" (b) as a noun, in the neuter sing., "the half," Mark 6:23; "half (a time)," Revelation 12:14; "a half," Revelation 11:9,11 , RV.
King James Dictionary [4]
H`ALF, n. h`af. plu.halves, pron. h`avz.
One equal part of a thing which is divided into two parts, either in fact or in contemplation a moiety as half a pound half a tract of land half an orange half the miseries or pleasures of life. It is applied to quantity, number, length, and every thing susceptible of division. In practice, of is often or usually omitted after half. We say, half a pound half a mile half the number.
Half the misery of life.
H`ALF, To divide into halves. See Halve.
H`ALF, adv. In part, or in an equal part of degree.
Half loth, and half consenting.
In composition, half denotes an equal part or indefinitely, a part, and hence, imperfect.
