hēmisuem

Strong’sG2255

half

stem hēmisu-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἥμισυς, -εια, -υ, gen., -ους (late, as in π., for cl., -εος; Bl., §8, 4; Mayser, 294), n. p1., ἡμίσια (Rec., cl., -εια),

[in LXX for חֲצִי, מַחֲצִית;] half;

1. as adj., agreeing in gender and number with the substantive following, τὰ ἡμίσια τ. ὑταρχόντων, Lk 19:8.

2. As neut. subst., τὸ ἥμισυ, the half; ἥ. (anarth.), a half: c. gen., ἥ. καιροῦ, Re 12:14; ἕως ἡμίσους τ. βασιλείας μου, Mk 6:23; after a cardinal number, ἡμέρας τρεῖς κ. ἥμισυ, Re 11:9, 11.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2255 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhay'-mee-soo

(as noun) half

Fromneuter of a derivative from an inseparable prefix akin to G260 (through the idea of partition involved in connection) and meaning semi-;

King Jameshalf.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἥμῐσυς, εια, υ,
genitive ἡμίσεος Refs 5th c.BC+ is sometimes a variant, as in Refs 5th c.BC+ [same places], and is found in later writers, as Refs 5th c.BC+; later contraction ἡμίσους LXX+8th c.BC+, Attic dialect ἡμίσεις Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.: Ionic dialect feminine ἡμίσεᾰ Refs 5th c.BC+), accusative plural -έας Refs 5th c.BC+: ἥμυσυς (assim.), Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.: neuter ἥμισον, τό, Refs 5th c.BC+; also ἥμισσον, τό, Refs 4th c.BC+: accusative plural τοὺς ἡμίσους Refs:—half,
I as adjective, ἡμίσεες λαοί half the people, ἡ. δ᾽ ἄρα λαοὶ ἐρητύοντο.. ἡ. δ᾽ ἀναβάντες ἐλαύνομεν Refs 8th c.BC+ as substantive (see.Refs 5th c.BC+; ἥμισυς λόγος half the tale, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὸ ἥμισυ τεῖχος Refs 5th c.BC+ half of what he intended, Refs 5th c.BC+. 'half-and-half', Refs
I.2 in Prose also with the substantive in genitive and giving its gender and number to ἥμισυς, τῶν νήσων τὰς ἡμισέας Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ ἡμίσειαι τῶν νεῶν half of the ships, Refs 5th c.BC+. half of them, Refs 5th c.BC+
II as substantive in neuter, ἥ. τιμῆς, ἐνάρων, ἀρετῆςRefs 8th c.BC+; τὸ μὲν.., τὸ δ᾽ ἥ. Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν ἡμίσει τῆς νυκτός at midnight, LXX+8th c.BC+; θἤμισυ Refs 5th c.BC+: indeclinable, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἥ. LXX; τῷ ἥ. φυλῆςLXX+5th c.BC+; ῥαφανίδων τὰ ἡ. Thphr.[same place]: after Numerals, ἐν δυοῖν καὶ ἡμίσει ἡμέρας Refs 1st c.BC+: indeclinable, τριῶν ἥμισυ σταδίων Refs 1st c.BC+: as adverb, ἥ. μὲν νύμφην.., ἥ. δ᾽ αὖτε ὄφιν Refs 8th c.BC+: so in plural, τὰ μὲν ἡμίσεα φιλόπονος, τὰ δὲ ἡ. ἄπονος Refs 5th c.BC+. not half, Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb ἡμισέως half-done, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b ἥμισυ, τό,= ἡμίεκτον, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.2 _feminine_, ἡ ἡμίσεια (i.e. μοῖρα), τῇ ἡμισείᾳ τῆς γῆς Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐ γὰρ ἐφ᾽ ἡμισείᾳ χρηστὸν εἶναι δεῖ by halves, Refs 4th c.BC+; enlarged from ἡμι-.)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

half5×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	hēmisuos	hēmisuas	hēmisuem3×ἥμισυ	hēmisuois	hēmisuais	hēmisueim1×ἡμίσιά
object accusative	hēmisuon	hēmisuan		hēmisuoin	hēmisuain
direct address vocative	hēmisuor	hēmisuar		hēmisuoir	hēmisuair
of, belonging to genitive	hēmisuou	hēmisuau	hēmisueu1×ἡμίσους	hēmisuoiu	hēmisuaiu	hēmisueiu
to, for dative	hēmisuo	hēmisua	hēmisue	hēmisuoi	hēmisuai	hēmisuei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

hēmisustem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hēmisu is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

hēmisuem“half”subject or objectdirect singular3×

Revelation 11:9… tem ptōmem autoiu hēmerain treis kai hēmisuem, kai teim ptōmeim autoiu ouk afiēkalō …For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and …

Revelation 11:11Kai meta tain treis hēmerain kai hēmisuem pneumem zōau ek tou theou eiserchata …But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from …

Revelation 12:14… trefotō ekei kairon kai kairoin kai hēmisuem kairou apo prosōpeu tou ofiou.… for a time, and times, and half a time.

hēmisueu“half”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Mark 6:23… ean min aitaseia dōami si heōs hēmisueu tau basileiau mu.… I will give you, up to half my kingdom!”

hēmisueim“half”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Luke 19:8… legata pros ton kurion; Idou teim hēmisueim mu teiu huparcharōnteiu, kurior, toi ptōchoi …… said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to …