Fifty

Usually translated “fifty” and “fifties”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• fifty 6
• fifties 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Luke 3
• John 2
• Mark 1
• Acts 1

4 books in all.

• Fifty (chamishshim)

• Luke 7:41There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
• Luke 9:14For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
• Luke 16:6And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
• John 8:57Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
• John 21:11Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
• Acts 13:20And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “fifty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.