חֲמִשִּׁים
fifty
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Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
140 distinct verses where H2572 appears in the Absolute state, across 18 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 8 verses
- Genesis 6:15 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 7:24 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
- Genesis 8:3 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The waters receded from off the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.
- Genesis 9:28 וַֽ/חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
- Genesis 9:29 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.
- Genesis 18:24 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are therein?
- Genesis 18:26 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
- Genesis 18:28 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
Exodus 17 verses
- Exodus 18:21 חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים adj Cardinal number bp Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 18:25 חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים adj Cardinal number bp Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 26:5 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one to another.
- Exodus 26:6 חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים adj Cardinal number bp You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tent shall be a unit.
- Exodus 26:10 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second coupling.
- Exodus 26:11 חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים adj Cardinal number bp You shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
- Exodus 27:12 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
- Exodus 27:13 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
- Exodus 27:18 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים בַּ/חֲמִשִּׁ֗ים adj Cardinal number bp prep det + Adjective Cardinal number bp The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 30:23 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
- Exodus 36:12 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite one to another.
- Exodus 36:13 חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים adj Cardinal number bp He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tent was a unit.
- Exodus 36:17 חֲמִשִּׁ֗ים וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the second coupling.
- Exodus 36:18 חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים adj Cardinal number bp He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
- Exodus 38:12 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 38:13 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp For the east side eastward fifty cubits.
- Exodus 38:26 וַ/חֲמִשִּֽׁים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
Leviticus 5 verses
- Leviticus 23:16 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 25:10 הַ/חֲמִשִּׁים֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- Leviticus 25:11 הַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
- Leviticus 27:3 חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים adj Cardinal number bp Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
- Leviticus 27:16 בַּ/חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים prep det + Adjective Cardinal number bp "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Numbers 32 verses
- Numbers 1:23 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
- Numbers 1:25 וַ/חֲמִשִּֽׁים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
- Numbers 1:29 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 1:31 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 1:43 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 1:46 וַ/חֲמִשִּֽׁים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
- Numbers 2:6 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 2:8 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 2:13 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
- Numbers 2:15 וַ/חֲמִשִּֽׁים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
- Numbers 2:16 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp "All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their hosts. They shall set out second.
- Numbers 2:30 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 2:31 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp "All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards."
- Numbers 2:32 וַ/חֲמִשִּֽׁים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
- Numbers 4:3 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:23 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:30 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shall you number them, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:35 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 4:36 וַ/חֲמִשִּֽׁים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Those who were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.
- Numbers 4:39 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 4:43 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 4:47 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 8:25 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,
- Numbers 16:2 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
- Numbers 16:17 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp and take every man his censer, and put incense on them, and bring you before Yahweh every man his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.
- Numbers 16:35 הַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
- Numbers 26:10 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
- Numbers 26:34 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
- Numbers 26:47 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
- Numbers 31:30 הַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֗ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tent of Yahweh.
- Numbers 31:47 הַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֔ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:52 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp All the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:15 חֲמִשִּׁים֙ adj Cardinal number bp So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
- Deuteronomy 22:29 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
Joshua 1 verse
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 6:19 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp He struck of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
- 1 Samuel 8:12 חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים adj Cardinal number bp and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 15:1 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
- 2 Samuel 24:24 חֲמִשִּֽׁים adj Cardinal number bp The king said to Araunah, No; but I will most assuredly buy it of you at a price. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Kings 9 verses
- 1 Kings 1:5 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp 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 7:2 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
- 1 Kings 7:6 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp He made the porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.
- 1 Kings 9:23 חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים adj Cardinal number bp These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
- 1 Kings 10:29 בַּ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים prep det + Adjective Cardinal number bp A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
- 1 Kings 18:4 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
- 1 Kings 18:13 חֲמִשִּׁ֨ים חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
- 1 Kings 18:19 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֗ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
- 1 Kings 18:22 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.
2 Kings 15 verses
- 2 Kings 1:9 חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים וַ/חֲמִשָּׁ֑י/ו adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then [the king] sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. He went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He spoke to him, man of God, the king has said, Come down.
- 2 Kings 1:10 הַ/חֲמִשִּׁים֒ חֲמִשֶּׁ֑י/ךָ חֲמִשָּֽׁי/ו ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp cs + sfx pers 2ms adj Cardinal number bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
- 2 Kings 1:11 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וַ/חֲמִשָּׁ֑י/ו adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly.
- 2 Kings 1:13 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וַ/חֲמִשָּׁ֑י/ו הַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֨ים חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp cs + sfx pers 3ms ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
- 2 Kings 1:14 הַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֛ים חֲמִשֵּׁי/הֶ֑ם ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp cs + sfx pers 3mp Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.
- 2 Kings 2:7 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֨ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over against them afar off: and they two stood by the Jordan.
- 2 Kings 2:16 חֲמִשִּׁ֨ים adj Cardinal number bp They said to him, See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray you, and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up, and cast him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, You shall not send.
- 2 Kings 2:17 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but didn't find him.
- 2 Kings 13:7 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
- 2 Kings 15:2 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 15:20 חֲמִשִּׁ֧ים adj Cardinal number bp Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there in the land.
- 2 Kings 15:23 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] two years.
- 2 Kings 15:25 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:27 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years.
- 2 Kings 21:1 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah.
1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 5:21 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וַ/חֲמִשִּׁים֙ adj Cardinal number bp conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp They took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 8:40 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
- 1 Chronicles 9:9 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' [houses] by their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 12:33 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, and were] not of double heart.
2 Chronicles 7 verses
- 2 Chronicles 1:17 בַּ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים prep det + Adjective Cardinal number bp They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
- 2 Chronicles 2:17 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
- 2 Chronicles 3:9 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
- 2 Chronicles 8:10 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.
- 2 Chronicles 8:18 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants who had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 26:3 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 33:1 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Ezra 12 verses
- Ezra 2:7 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Ezra 2:14 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.
- Ezra 2:15 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.
- Ezra 2:22 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The men of Netophah, fifty-six.
- Ezra 2:29 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Nebo, fifty-two.
- Ezra 2:30 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
- Ezra 2:31 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Ezra 2:37 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.
- Ezra 2:60 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.
- Ezra 8:3 וַ/חֲמִשִּֽׁים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.
- Ezra 8:6 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
- Ezra 8:26 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֔ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;
Nehemiah 9 verses
- Nehemiah 5:17 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
- Nehemiah 6:15 לַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים prep det + Adjective Cardinal number bp So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth [day] of [the month] Elul, in fifty-two days.
- Nehemiah 7:10 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:12 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Nehemiah 7:20 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.
- Nehemiah 7:33 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:34 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Nehemiah 7:40 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.
- Nehemiah 7:70 חֲמִשִּׁ֔ים adj Cardinal number bp Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.
Esther 2 verses
- Esther 5:14 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak you to the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet. The thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
- Esther 7:9 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains who were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. The king said, Hang him thereon.
Isaiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 11 verses
- Ezekiel 40:15 חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים adj Cardinal number bp [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:21 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:25 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:29 חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:33 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.
- Ezekiel 40:36 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
- Ezekiel 42:2 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
- Ezekiel 42:7 חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.
- Ezekiel 42:8 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 45:2 וַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it round about.
- Ezekiel 48:17 חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.
Haggai 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun חמשים centers on the idea of “fifty.” The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 141 verses — common. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 6:15. Sharing its root, it stands alongside חמש, חמישי and חמש. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2572 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 141
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 141 distinct verses.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #282
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 282 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 141 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 141 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 64 verses · 45%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 43 verses · 30%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 34 verses · 24%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Fifty 121×, Were fifty 8×, Was fifty 7×
- American Standard Version†: Fifty 115×, Was fifty 7×, Were fifty 7×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Fifty 68×, Fifties 4×, Fiftieth 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Fifty 32×, Were 22×, And 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2572 across 161† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2572 across 161† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2572 across 98† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 64 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2572 across 106† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 64 further occurrences.
14 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 14 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
חמשים I pl. (a) fifty (Arabic خَمْسُونَ Aramaic ܚܰܡܫܝܺܢ, Ph. חמשם
- 1. abs.
- a. a fifty, a company of fifty Ex 18:21, 25 Dt 1:15; 1 S 8:12; 2 K 1:9(×2) + 13 times 2 K 1 (in v 14 = fifties) Is 3:3. e.g. Exodus 18:21
- b. elsewhere, without noun expr., (1) without other numeral Nu 31:30, 47; Ez 27:18(×2) Hg 2:16; (2) with other num. ח׳ preceding Ex 30:23(×2) + 11 times; + 1 Ch 12:34 Baer, van d. H. v 33 (sq. אלף); (3) ח׳ following Ex 38:26 + 10 times; (4) ח׳ between other num. Nu 1:23 + 23 times e.g. Numbers 31:30
- 2. חֲמִשִּׁים without other num.:
- a. before noun Gn 6:15 + 58 times + ח׳ בָּאַמָּה Ex 38:12. e.g. Genesis 6:15
- b. after noun 2 S 24:24; Ex 26:11 + 4 times Chr. e.g. 2 Samuel 24:24
- 3. ח׳ before other num.:
- a. foll. by noun Gn 7:24 +. e.g. Genesis 7:24
- b. preceded bynoun 1 Ch 5:21. e.g. 1 Chronicles 5:21
- 4. ח׳ after other num., and
- a. this after noun 1 Ch 8:40; Ezr 8:3, 26. e.g. 1 Chronicles 8:40
- b. noun repeated e.g. Gn 9:28, 29. e.g. Genesis 9:28
- 5. ח׳ preceded by cstr. e.g. בִּשְׁנַת ח׳ שָׁנָה 2 K 15:23, 27; Lv 15:10, 11. e.g. 2 Kings 15:23
- 6. ח׳ = ordinal, fiftieth Lv 25:10, 11; 2 K 15:23, cf. v 27. e.g. Leviticus 25:10
חמשים II pl. in battle array, always this form, Ex 13
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.pl. (a) fifty (Arabic خَمْسُونَ Aramaic ܚܰܡܫܝܺܢ, Ph. חמשם; MI28 חמשן; Assyrian ḫamšâti Dl in LotzTP 80)—חֲמִשִּׁים Gn 6:15 + 154 times (incl. Ez 40:25, 29, 33, del. Co) + Ez 45:12 (so read A Hi Co for חמשׁה); sf. חֲמִשֶּׁיךָ 2 K 1:10, 12, חֲמִשָּׁיו 2 K 1:9 + 4 times, חֲמִשֵּׁיהֶם 2 K 1:14;—
I. adj.pl. in battle array, always this form, Ex 13:18 (E), Jos 1:14; 4:12 (both D), Ju 7:11 + Nu 32:17 (JE), v. חושׁ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חמש (châmêsh) (H2568) — five.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָמֵשׁ
- (b. h.) five (numeral letter ה׳). Snh. V, 3 בחמש (sub. שעות) during the fifth hour of the day. Ib. בחמשה (sub. ימים) on the fifth of the month.—Sabb. 77ᵇ חמשה אימות וכ׳ (sub. מִינֵי), v. אֵימָה. B. Mets. IV, 9 תשלומי ארבעה וח׳ fines of the fourfold or fivefold value (Ex. XXI, 37); a. v. fr.—Pl. חֲמִשִּׁים (נ׳) fifty. R. Hash. 21ᵇ. Ab. V, 21 בן ח׳ at the age of fifty years; a. v. fr.—Denom. חִמֵּשׁ to divide into five.—Part. pass. מְחוּמָּשׁ; f. מְחוּמֶּשֶׁת, pl. מְחוּמָּשׁוֹת. B. Bath. 150ᵃ ובלבד שיהו מח׳ provided the minimum of wool required is equally divided between the five lambs.—חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה f.; חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר m. (ט"ו) fifteen. Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᵇ (ref. to וחמשים, Ex. XIII, 18) בח׳ ע׳ מיני וכ׳ with fifteen kinds of arms. Taan. IV, 8 כח׳ ע׳ באב like the celebration of the fifteenth of Ab; a. fr.—Constr. of חֲמִשָּׁה; חֲמֵשֶׁת. Kidd. 30ᵃ ח׳ אלפים five thousand; a. fr. e.g. Exodus 21:37
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 40 distinct written forms H2572 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2572, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 130 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 141 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 6:15
- Exodus 18:21
- Leviticus 23:16
- Numbers 1:23
- Deuteronomy 1:15
- Joshua 7:21
- 1 Samuel 6:19
- 2 Samuel 15:1
- 1 Kings 1:5
- 2 Kings 1:9
- 1 Chronicles 5:21
- 2 Chronicles 1:17
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
