Lexical Summary chomesh: fifth part Original Word: חֹמֶשׁTransliteration: chomesh Phonetic Spelling: (kho'-mesh) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: fifth part Meaning: a fifth tax Strong's Concordance fifth participle From chamash; a fifth tax -- fifth participle see HEBREW chamash Brown-Driver-Briggs H2569. chomesh I. חֹ֫מֶשׁ noun [masculine] fifth part — only לַהֹמֶשׁ לְפַרְעֹה Genesis 47:26, but connection with preceding awk-ward; read perhaps הַחֹמֶשׁ (ᵑ6), or ᵐ5 לְחַמֵּשׁ, see Di. |