chamishim · fifty

What it means

chamishim (חֲמִשִּׁים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fifty”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The number that is five times ten.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Fifty. It comes from חָמֵשׁ, “five”.

• The fiftieth year: the jubilee Leviticus 25:10
• The fifty days up to the feast Leviticus 23:16
• “Perhaps there are fifty righteous” Genesis 18:24
• A commander of fifty with his fifty 2 Kings 1:9

Historical and cultural background

Leviticus 25:10 orders to “sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land”; Leviticus 23:16 counts “fifty days” up to the new grain offering.

How we translate it

“Fifty” 155 times, “fifties” 5, “fiftieth” 2. Another similar word, חֲמֻשִׁים, is not this number: it is translated “in battle formation”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fifty ×155
• fifties ×5
• fiftieth ×2
• all along ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×23
• Leviticus×5
• Numbers×33
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×10
• 2 Kings×25
• 1 Chronicles×5
• 2 Chronicles×7
• Ezra×12
• Nehemiah×9
• Esther×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×14
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 6:15

  And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

• Genesis 7:24

  And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

• Genesis 8:3

  And the waters receded from the earth, going and receding; and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had decreased.

• Genesis 9:28

  And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

• Genesis 9:29

  And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

• Genesis 18:24

  Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city; will you really sweep away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?

• Genesis 18:26

  YHWH said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

• Genesis 18:28

  Perhaps the fifty righteous will lack five; will you destroy for the five the whole city?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find there forty-five.”

• Exodus 18:21

  And you shall look for, from all the people, capable men, who fear Elohim, men of truth, who hate unjust gain; and place them over them as chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.

• Exodus 18:25

  Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.

• Exodus 26:5

  Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set, the loops opposite one to another.

• Exodus 26:6

  You shall make fifty clasps of gold and join the curtains one to another with the clasps, so that the dwelling shall be one whole.

• Exodus 26:10

  You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the second set.

• Exodus 26:11

  You shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent so that it is one whole.

• Exodus 27:12

  For the width of the courtyard on the west side there shall be hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their bases ten.

• Exodus 27:13

  The width of the courtyard on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be fifty cubits.

• Exodus 27:18

  The length of the courtyard shall be a hundred cubits, the width fifty all along, and the height five cubits, of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 30:23

  “And you, take for yourself the finest spices: of liquid myrrh five hundred, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, two hundred and fifty, and of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty,

• Exodus 36:12

  Fifty loops he made on the one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the end of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one to another.

• Exodus 36:13

  And he made fifty clasps of gold and joined the curtains, one to another, with the clasps, so that the dwelling became one.

• Exodus 36:17

  And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the set, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain of the second set.

• Exodus 36:18

  And he made fifty clasps of bronze to join the tent to be one.

• Exodus 38:12

  And for the west side, hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten and their bases ten; the hooks of the pillars and their rods were of silver.

• Exodus 38:13

  And for the east side, toward the sunrise, fifty cubits.

• Exodus 38:26

  a beka per head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

• Leviticus 23:16

  Until the day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days, and you shall present a new grain offering to YHWH.

• Leviticus 25:10

  And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, and you shall return, each to his possession, and each to his clan you shall return.

• Leviticus 25:11

  That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows by itself and you shall not gather its unpruned vines.

• Leviticus 27:3

  the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be a valuation of fifty shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 27:16

  And if a man consecrates to YHWH part of the field of his possession, the valuation shall be according to its seed: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

• Numbers 1:23

  those of them counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 1:25

  those of them counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

• Numbers 1:29

  those of them counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 1:31

  those of them counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 1:43

  those of them counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 1:46

  all those counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

• Numbers 2:6

  and his army, those of them counted, are fifty-four thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 2:8

  and his army, those of them counted, are fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 2:13

  and his army, those of them counted, are fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

• Numbers 2:15

  and his army, those of them counted, are forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

And 123 more times.