חֲמִשִּׁיםchămishshîym

fifty

Pronunciation: kham-ish-sheem' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2572

Meanings

1. absolute

a. a fifty (Exodus 18:21; Exodus 18:25; Deuteronomy 1:15)

2. without other number

3. before other numbers

4. after other number

5. preceded by construct (2 Kings 15:23; 2 Kings 15:27; Leviticus 15:10)

6. fiftieth, = ordinal (Leviticus 25:10; Leviticus 25:11; 2 Kings 15:23)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 163 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 6:15 Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
  • Genesis 7:24 And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
  • Genesis 8:3 So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,
  • Genesis 9:28 Noah lived another 350 years after the great flood.
  • Genesis 9:29 He lived 950 years, and then he died.
  • Genesis 18:24 Suppose you find fifty righteous people living there in the city—will you still sweep it away and not spare it for their sakes?
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).