From G2255 (hēmisu, half) and G2348 (thnēskō, to die). Used only in Luke 10:30 in the Good Samaritan parable.
Hēmithanēs appears only once but carries immense weight. The man on the Jericho road is humanity after the Fall: stripped, wounded, half dead. He cannot save himself. The priest and Levite — the Law — pass by. Only the Samaritan — the despised outsider — stops. The deeper question: 'Who can save the half-dead?' Only one who crosses every boundary to reach us.