Fifty
חֲמִשִּׁיםStrong’s H2572chamishshim (cha-mish-shim)
Appears in 141 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chamishshim is the Hebrew word usually translated “fifty”, “fifties” and “fifty his”. It appears in 141 verses of the Old Testament.
“And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.”
Meaning
- Fiftyfifty (cardinal number) · a multiple of fifty (with other numbers) · fiftieth (ordinal number)
How it's translated
- fifty 90
- and fifty 45
- the fifty 7
- fifties 4
- for fifty 3
- a fifty 3
- and fifty his 3
- fifty your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 32
- Exodus 17
- 2 Kings 16
- Ezra 12
- Ezekiel 11
- 1 Kings 9
18 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
- Genesis 8:3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
- Genesis 9:28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
- Genesis 9:29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
- Genesis 18:24Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
- Genesis 18:26And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֲמִשִּׁים chamishshim · fifty
1) fifty 1a) fifty (cardinal number) 1b) a multiple of fifty (with other numbers) 1c) fiftieth (ordinal number)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fifty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FIF'TY, adjective
- “And they sat down by fifties” Mark 6:40
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.