חֲמִשִּׁים chamishshim

Hebrew word for “fifty” · Strong’s H2572 · used 163 times in 141 verses

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Meaning

1) fifty; 1a) fifty (cardinal number); 1b) a multiple of fifty (with other numbers); 1c) fiftieth (ordinal number)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chamishshim in context, with how often each is used:

• fifty 145
• fifty men 9
• fifties 5
• will be fifty 3
• fifty measures 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezra 2 (9), Numbers 2 (8), Numbers 4 (8), Nehemiah 7 (7), Numbers 1 (6), 2 Kings 1 (6), Ezekiel 40 (6), 2 Kings 15 (5), Exodus 26 (4), Exodus 36 (4)

Forms

• חמשׁים 97
• וחמשׁים 45
• החמשׁים 8
• בחמשׁים 4
• וחמשׁיו 3
• חמשׁיך 2
• חמשׁיו 2
• חמשׁיהם 1
• לחמשׁים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chamishshim more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 65
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 36
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 20
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “six” 20
• פָּקַד paqad “to reckon” 20
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 20
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 17
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 20
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 12
• אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 12
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 15
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 11

Key verses

The verses using chamishshim that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 18:21 — Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of…
• Exodus 30:23 — Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of…
• Leviticus 25:10 — And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye…
• Numbers 4:3 — From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
• Numbers 16:35 — And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
• Joshua 7:21 — When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them,…
• 1 Samuel 6:19 — And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men:…
• 1 Kings 1:5 — Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
• 1 Kings 18:4 — For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread…
• 1 Kings 18:19 — Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four…
• 2 Kings 1:10 — And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came…
• Esther 5:14 — Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.