Strong's #2673: chatsah (pronounced khaw-tsaw')

a primitive root (compare 2086)); to cut or split in two; to halve:--divide, X live out half, reach to the midst, participle

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châtsâh

1) to divide, cut in two, cut short, live half (of one' s life)

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to divide

1a2) to half, cut in two

1b) (Niphal) to be divided

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [compare H2686])

Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

 

Genesis 32:7: "Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that"
Genesis 33:1: "him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah,"
Exodus 21:35: "then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and"
Exodus 21:35: "the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide."
Numbers 31:27: " And divide the prey them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle,"
Numbers 31:42: "half, Moses divided from the men that warred,"
Judges 7:16: " And he divided the three men into three companies, and he put"
Judges 9:43: "And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field,"
2 Kings 2:8: "and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over"
2 Kings 2:14: "also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha"
Job 41:6: "Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?"
Psalms 55:23: "and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust"
Isaiah 30:28: "And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations"
Ezekiel 37:22: "two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:"
Daniel 11:4: "And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not"