Strong G2255ἥμισυς
half
- Transliteration
- hēmisu
- Pronunciation
- hay'-mee-soo
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Neuter of a derivative from an inseparable prefix akin to G260 (through the idea of partition involved in connection) and meaning semi-; (as noun) half: - half.
Detailed definition
ἥμισυς, -εια, -υ genitive, -ους (late, as in π., for cl., -εος Bl., § 8, 4; Mayser, 294), n. p1., ἡμίσια (Rec., cl., -εια),
[in LXX for חֵצִי, מַחֲצִית;] half;
1. as adj., agreeing in gender and number with the substantive following, τὰ ἡμίσια τ. ὑταρχόντων, Luk.19:8.
2. As neut. subst., τὸ ἥμισυ, the half; ἥ. (anarth.), a half: with genitive, ἥ. καιροῦ, Rev.12:14; ἕως ἡμίσους τ. βασιλείας μου, Mrk.6:23; after a cardinal number, ἡμέρας τρεῖς κ. ἥμισυ, Rev.11:9, 11.†
(AS)
[in LXX for חֵצִי, מַחֲצִית;] half;
1. as adj., agreeing in gender and number with the substantive following, τὰ ἡμίσια τ. ὑταρχόντων, Luk.19:8.
2. As neut. subst., τὸ ἥμισυ, the half; ἥ. (anarth.), a half: with genitive, ἥ. καιροῦ, Rev.12:14; ἕως ἡμίσους τ. βασιλείας μου, Mrk.6:23; after a cardinal number, ἡμέρας τρεῖς κ. ἥμισυ, Rev.11:9, 11.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2255 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- half5
First verses
- Mark 6:23And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
- Luke 19:8And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
- Revelation 11:9And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
- Revelation 11:11And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
- Revelation 12:14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἥμῐσυς, εια, υ,
genitive ἡμίσεος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.126, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.78, 4.83, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 18.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 205e, “IG” 22.1612.267, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.213, etc. (ἡμίσεως)] is sometimes a variant, as in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus)] [same places], and is found in later writers, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.70); also as _feminine_, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.104)]; later contraction ἡμίσους [LXX+8th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.17, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 34, etc. (as _feminine_, LXX.1Ki.16.9): _nominative_ and _accusative_ _plural_ _masculine_, _Ionic dialect_ ἡμίσεες, -εας, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.7, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.51)], Attic dialect ἡμίσεις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 154c (ἡμίσεας is preferred by 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.73B.): _neuter_ _plural_ ἡμίσεα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 438c, later ἡμίση 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.36 (codex S), +others, “IG” 22.1678.23, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 30.16, “IG” 12 (5).872.107 (from Tenos), “SIG” 2588.4(Delos, 2nd c.BC))], etc.: Ionic dialect feminine ἡμίσεᾰ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.111 (hyperion. -σέη 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Syr.D.” 14)]), accusative plural -έας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.27, also _accusative_ _sing._ ἡμίσεαν “IG” 2.1055.16, 1059.14, _genitive_ ἡμισέας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 83c)]: ἥμυσυς (assim.), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Rev.Phil.” 54.192 (Erythrae, 5th c.BC), “IG” 22.43 A 45 (4th c.BC), “PEleph.” 20.40 (4th c.BC), “IG” 11(2).161 A 23(Delos, 3rd c.BC), “UPZ” 54.6 (2nd c.BC))], etc.: neuter ἥμισον, τό, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.8 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC), “SIG” 1011.7 (Chalcedon, 3rd-2nd c.BC), [prev. work]671 A 13 (Delph., 2nd c.BC), “BGU” 183.41 (1st c.AD): _plural_ ἥμισα “SIG” 56.7 (Argos, 5th c.BC))]; also ἥμισσον, τό, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work]306.14 (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, 4th c.BC), 1009.20 (Ephesus, 3rd-2nd c.BC): _plural_ ἥμισσα [prev. work] 240 P (Delph., 4th c.BC))]: accusative plural τοὺς ἡμίσους [Refs (“Not.Arch.” 4.20 (Cyrene, Aug.))]:—half,
I as adjective, ἡμίσεες λαοί half the people, ἡ. δ᾽ ἄρα λαοὶ ἐρητύοντο.. ἡ. δ᾽ ἀναβάντες ἐλαύνομεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.155 {ἡμισύτριτον}, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.7 (elsewhere 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only _neuter_ ἥμισυ)] as substantive (see.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (below 11)); τοὺς ἡμίσεας ἀποστέλλειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.51, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.16, etc.)]; ἥμισυς λόγος half the tale, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 428 (λόγου codex _middle_))]; τὸ ἥμισυ τεῖχος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.78; ὁ ἥ. ἀριθμός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 946a: with _genitive_, like a _comparative_, τὸ ὕψος ἥμισυ ἐτελέσθη οὗ διενοεῖτο)] half of what he intended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93: _metaphorically_, οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἥμισυς ἑαυτοῦ γένοιτο πρὸς ἀρετήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 647d (οὐ δι᾽ ἥμισυν stands for οὐ διήμ)]. 'half-and-half', [Refs ([prev. work] 806c).)]
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+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.10; τῶν ἀνδραπόδων τὰ ἡμίσεα [prev. author] 6.23)]; αἱ ἡμίσειαι τῶν νεῶν half of the ships, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.8; οἱ ἡμίσεις τῶν ἄρτων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.4; ὁ ἥμισυς τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 104a; τοῦ χρόνου 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.8: _absolutely_, οἱ ἡ)]. half of them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20.)]
II as substantive in neuter, ἥ. τιμῆς, ἐνάρων, ἀρετῆς[Refs 8th c.BC+ (, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.616, 17.231, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.322)]; τὸ μὲν.., τὸ δ᾽ ἥ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.565; πλέον ἥ. παντός 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 40, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 466c; ὑπὲρ ἥ. πάντων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.47; ἥ. οὗ δεῖ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 77c, etc.)]; ἐν ἡμίσει τῆς νυκτός at midnight, [LXX+8th c.BC+ (LXX.Judg.16.3: usually with _Article_, τὸ ἥ. τοῦ στρατοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.83, etc.; also τὤμισυ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 559, “Schwyzer” 701 (Erythrae, 5th c.BC))]; θἤμισυ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 116)]: indeclinable, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἥ. [LXX (LXX.Exo.30.15)]; τῷ ἥ. φυλῆς[LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Num.32.33: _plural_, τῆς χορείας τὰ ἡμίσεα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 672e; ἄρτων ἡμίσεα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.9.26)]; ῥαφανίδων τὰ ἡ. Thphr.[same place]: after Numerals, ἐν δυοῖν καὶ ἡμίσει ἡμέρας [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“IG” 22.1673.73; δεκατεττάρων καὶ ἡμίσους 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.39; μνῶν.. δώδεκα καὶ ἡμίσους 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.17; τετραποδίαν μίαν καὶ ἥμισυ “IG” 12.373.28; without καί, μυριάδων ἑπτὰ ἡμίσους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 34)]: indeclinable, τριῶν ἥμισυ σταδίων [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.21, compare “PTeb.” 110.5 (1st c.BC), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 44, etc.)]: as adverb, ἥ. μὲν νύμφην.., ἥ. δ᾽ αὖτε ὄφιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 298, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.87)]: so in plural, τὰ μὲν ἡμίσεα φιλόπονος, τὰ δὲ ἡ. ἄπονος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 535d: with Preps., οὐδ᾽ εἰς ἥ)]. not half, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 452: regular)] adverb ἡμισέως half-done, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 601c.)]
II.b ἥμισυ, τό,= ἡμίεκτον, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
II.2 _feminine_, ἡ ἡμίσεια (i.e. μοῖρα), τῇ ἡμισείᾳ τῆς γῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.31; ἡ ἡ. τοῦ τιμήματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 956d)]; οὐ γὰρ ἐφ᾽ ἡμισείᾳ χρηστὸν εἶναι δεῖ by halves, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.277; ἐξ ἡμισείας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 1, 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.26, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 10.145. (ἡμισυ- from ἡμιτυ-, ἡμισσο- from ἡμιτϝο-, compare ἡμίτεια, ἡμιτύεκτον)]; enlarged from ἡμι-.)
genitive ἡμίσεος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.126, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.78, 4.83, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 18.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 205e, “IG” 22.1612.267, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.213, etc. (ἡμίσεως)] is sometimes a variant, as in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus)] [same places], and is found in later writers, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.70); also as _feminine_, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.104)]; later contraction ἡμίσους [LXX+8th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.17, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 34, etc. (as _feminine_, LXX.1Ki.16.9): _nominative_ and _accusative_ _plural_ _masculine_, _Ionic dialect_ ἡμίσεες, -εας, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.7, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.51)], Attic dialect ἡμίσεις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 154c (ἡμίσεας is preferred by 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.73B.): _neuter_ _plural_ ἡμίσεα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 438c, later ἡμίση 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 36.36 (codex S), +others, “IG” 22.1678.23, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 30.16, “IG” 12 (5).872.107 (from Tenos), “SIG” 2588.4(Delos, 2nd c.BC))], etc.: Ionic dialect feminine ἡμίσεᾰ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.111 (hyperion. -σέη 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Syr.D.” 14)]), accusative plural -έας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.27, also _accusative_ _sing._ ἡμίσεαν “IG” 2.1055.16, 1059.14, _genitive_ ἡμισέας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 83c)]: ἥμυσυς (assim.), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Rev.Phil.” 54.192 (Erythrae, 5th c.BC), “IG” 22.43 A 45 (4th c.BC), “PEleph.” 20.40 (4th c.BC), “IG” 11(2).161 A 23(Delos, 3rd c.BC), “UPZ” 54.6 (2nd c.BC))], etc.: neuter ἥμισον, τό, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.8 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC), “SIG” 1011.7 (Chalcedon, 3rd-2nd c.BC), [prev. work]671 A 13 (Delph., 2nd c.BC), “BGU” 183.41 (1st c.AD): _plural_ ἥμισα “SIG” 56.7 (Argos, 5th c.BC))]; also ἥμισσον, τό, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work]306.14 (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, 4th c.BC), 1009.20 (Ephesus, 3rd-2nd c.BC): _plural_ ἥμισσα [prev. work] 240 P (Delph., 4th c.BC))]: accusative plural τοὺς ἡμίσους [Refs (“Not.Arch.” 4.20 (Cyrene, Aug.))]:—half,
I as adjective, ἡμίσεες λαοί half the people, ἡ. δ᾽ ἄρα λαοὶ ἐρητύοντο.. ἡ. δ᾽ ἀναβάντες ἐλαύνομεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.155 {ἡμισύτριτον}, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.7 (elsewhere 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only _neuter_ ἥμισυ)] as substantive (see.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (below 11)); τοὺς ἡμίσεας ἀποστέλλειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.51, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.16, etc.)]; ἥμισυς λόγος half the tale, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 428 (λόγου codex _middle_))]; τὸ ἥμισυ τεῖχος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.78; ὁ ἥ. ἀριθμός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 946a: with _genitive_, like a _comparative_, τὸ ὕψος ἥμισυ ἐτελέσθη οὗ διενοεῖτο)] half of what he intended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93: _metaphorically_, οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἥμισυς ἑαυτοῦ γένοιτο πρὸς ἀρετήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 647d (οὐ δι᾽ ἥμισυν stands for οὐ διήμ)]. 'half-and-half', [Refs ([prev. work] 806c).)]
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+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.10; τῶν ἀνδραπόδων τὰ ἡμίσεα [prev. author] 6.23)]; αἱ ἡμίσειαι τῶν νεῶν half of the ships, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.8; οἱ ἡμίσεις τῶν ἄρτων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.4; ὁ ἥμισυς τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 104a; τοῦ χρόνου 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.8: _absolutely_, οἱ ἡ)]. half of them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20.)]
II as substantive in neuter, ἥ. τιμῆς, ἐνάρων, ἀρετῆς[Refs 8th c.BC+ (, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.616, 17.231, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.322)]; τὸ μὲν.., τὸ δ᾽ ἥ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.565; πλέον ἥ. παντός 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 40, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 466c; ὑπὲρ ἥ. πάντων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.47; ἥ. οὗ δεῖ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 77c, etc.)]; ἐν ἡμίσει τῆς νυκτός at midnight, [LXX+8th c.BC+ (LXX.Judg.16.3: usually with _Article_, τὸ ἥ. τοῦ στρατοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.83, etc.; also τὤμισυ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 559, “Schwyzer” 701 (Erythrae, 5th c.BC))]; θἤμισυ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 116)]: indeclinable, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἥ. [LXX (LXX.Exo.30.15)]; τῷ ἥ. φυλῆς[LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Num.32.33: _plural_, τῆς χορείας τὰ ἡμίσεα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 672e; ἄρτων ἡμίσεα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.9.26)]; ῥαφανίδων τὰ ἡ. Thphr.[same place]: after Numerals, ἐν δυοῖν καὶ ἡμίσει ἡμέρας [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“IG” 22.1673.73; δεκατεττάρων καὶ ἡμίσους 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.39; μνῶν.. δώδεκα καὶ ἡμίσους 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.17; τετραποδίαν μίαν καὶ ἥμισυ “IG” 12.373.28; without καί, μυριάδων ἑπτὰ ἡμίσους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 34)]: indeclinable, τριῶν ἥμισυ σταδίων [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.21, compare “PTeb.” 110.5 (1st c.BC), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 44, etc.)]: as adverb, ἥ. μὲν νύμφην.., ἥ. δ᾽ αὖτε ὄφιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 298, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.87)]: so in plural, τὰ μὲν ἡμίσεα φιλόπονος, τὰ δὲ ἡ. ἄπονος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 535d: with Preps., οὐδ᾽ εἰς ἥ)]. not half, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 452: regular)] adverb ἡμισέως half-done, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 601c.)]
II.b ἥμισυ, τό,= ἡμίεκτον, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
II.2 _feminine_, ἡ ἡμίσεια (i.e. μοῖρα), τῇ ἡμισείᾳ τῆς γῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.31; ἡ ἡ. τοῦ τιμήματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 956d)]; οὐ γὰρ ἐφ᾽ ἡμισείᾳ χρηστὸν εἶναι δεῖ by halves, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.277; ἐξ ἡμισείας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 1, 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.26, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 10.145. (ἡμισυ- from ἡμιτυ-, ἡμισσο- from ἡμιτϝο-, compare ἡμίτεια, ἡμιτύεκτον)]; enlarged from ἡμι-.)