Strong’s H2567 · Hebrew
חָמַשׁ
châmash · khaw-mash'
Origin a denominative from חָמֵשׁ (H2568);
Meaning to tax a fifth
In the King James Version take up the fifth participle
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- Genesis 41:34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.