'Half' in the Bible

And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the blood over the altar.

And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.

And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high,

And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House.

Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.

And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.

And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.

The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.

Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.

And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high;

And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high;

And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;

A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.