Strong’s H2569 · Hebrew
חֹמֶשׁ
chômesh · kho'-mesh
Origin from חָמַשׁ (H2567);
Meaning a fifth tax
In the King James Version fifth participle
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- Genesis 47:26And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.
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.