Lexical Definition

‎חֹמֶשׁ‎ chômesh (kho'-mesh) fifth ^H:N-M
from ‎חָמַשׁ‎

fifth participle

• a fifth tax

1) fifth part

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎חֹ֫מֶשׁ‎ noun [masculine] fifth part — only ‎לְפַרְעֹה‎ ‎לַהֹמֶשׁ‎ Gen 47:26, but connection with preceding awk-ward; read perhaps ‎הַחֹמֶשׁ‎ (ᵑ6), or ‎לְחַמֵּשׁ‎ ᵐ5, see Di.

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