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Strong's H2572 חֲמִשִּׁים (chamishshim)

Chamishshim means “fifty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2572 — kalypto (“cover”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2572
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 141
Books 18

Strong's H2572 Quick Answer

Strong's H2572 חֲמִשִּׁים (chamishshiym) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. chamishshiym (kham-ish-sheem') num. 1. fifty [multiple of H2568] It has 141 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include fifty and are. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
chamishshiym (kham-ish-sheem') num. 1. fifty [multiple of H2568]
Usage
141 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
fifty and are

Meaning and Definition

chamishshiym (kham-ish-sheem') num. 1. fifty [multiple of H2568] KJV: fifty. Root(s): H2568

Original Word
חֲמִשִּׁים
Transliteration
chamishshiym
Derivation
Root: חמשׁ First root strongs: 2568
Morphology
number

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2572. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2572 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chamishshiym, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

fifty Genesis 6:15 111× are Genesis 18:24

How Strong's H2572 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 141 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2572 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2572 in the Old Testament

141 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 6:15 KJV

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.

Genesis 7:24 KJV

And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:3 KJV

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2572.

Genesis 6:15 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Genesis 7:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Genesis 9:28 Old Testament, KJV
And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Genesis 9:29 Old Testament, KJV
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Genesis 18:24 Old Testament, KJV
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis 18:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
Genesis 18:28 Old Testament, KJV
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
Exodus 18:21 Old Testament, KJV
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 thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Exodus 18:25 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 Old Testament, KJV
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
Exodus 26:6 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Exodus 26:10 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
Exodus 26:11 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
Exodus 27:12 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 Old Testament, KJV
And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus 27:18 Old Testament, KJV
The length of the court shall be an 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 Old Testament, KJV
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 sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
Exodus 36:12 Old Testament, KJV
Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
Exodus 36:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
Exodus 36:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
Exodus 36:18 Old Testament, KJV
And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
Exodus 38:12 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 Old Testament, KJV
And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exodus 38:26 Old Testament, KJV
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Leviticus 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Leviticus 25:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Leviticus 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Leviticus 27:3 Old Testament, KJV
And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 27:16 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Numbers 1:23 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 1:25 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 1:29 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:31 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:43 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 1:46 Old Testament, KJV
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Numbers 2:16 Old Testament, KJV
All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
Numbers 2:30 Old Testament, KJV
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:31 Old Testament, KJV
All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
Numbers 2:32 Old Testament, KJV
These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers 4:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 4:23 Old Testament, KJV
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers 4:30 Old Testament, KJV
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers 4:35 Old Testament, KJV
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers 4:36 Old Testament, KJV
And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
Numbers 4:39 Old Testament, KJV
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers 4:43 Old Testament, KJV
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers 4:47 Old Testament, KJV
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers 8:25 Old Testament, KJV
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
Numbers 16:2 Old Testament, KJV
And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
Numbers 16:17 Old Testament, KJV
And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
Numbers 16:35 Old Testament, KJV
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Numbers 26:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
Numbers 26:34 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers 26:47 Old Testament, KJV
These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 31:30 Old Testament, KJV
And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Numbers 31:47 Old Testament, KJV
Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers 31:52 Old Testament, KJV
And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
Deuteronomy 1:15 Old Testament, KJV
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
Deuteronomy 22:29 Old Testament, KJV
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Joshua 7:21 Old Testament, KJV
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, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
1 Samuel 6:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
1 Samuel 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
2 Samuel 15:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel 24:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Kings 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
1 Kings 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
1 Kings 9:23 Old Testament, KJV
These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
1 Kings 10:29 Old Testament, KJV
And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and 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 Old Testament, KJV
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 and water.)
1 Kings 18:13 Old Testament, KJV
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 18:19 Old Testament, KJV
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 hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
1 Kings 18:22 Old Testament, KJV
Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
2 Kings 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
2 Kings 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2 Kings 1:11 Old Testament, KJV
Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
2 Kings 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2 Kings 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings 2:7 Old Testament, KJV
And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
2 Kings 2:16 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
2 Kings 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
2 Kings 13:7 Old Testament, KJV
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
2 Kings 15:2 Old Testament, KJV
Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 15:20 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 stayed not there in the land.
2 Kings 15:23 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
2 Kings 15:27 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
1 Chronicles 5:21 Old Testament, KJV
And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles 8:40 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles 9:9 Old Testament, KJV
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles 12:33 Old Testament, KJV
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
2 Chronicles 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
2 Chronicles 2:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles 3:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
2 Chronicles 8:10 Old Testament, KJV
And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
2 Chronicles 8:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
2 Chronicles 26:3 Old Testament, KJV
Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:1 Old Testament, KJV
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
Ezra 2:7 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Ezra 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.
Ezra 2:15 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
Ezra 2:22 Old Testament, KJV
The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
Ezra 2:29 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Nebo, fifty and two.
Ezra 2:30 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.
Ezra 2:31 Old Testament, KJV
The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Ezra 2:37 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
Ezra 2:60 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
Ezra 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
Ezra 8:6 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
Ezra 8:26 Old Testament, KJV
I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;
Nehemiah 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
Nehemiah 6:15 Old Testament, KJV
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Nehemiah 7:10 Old Testament, KJV
The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2572, grouped by book.

Genesis 8 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 17 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 5 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 32 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 9 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 16 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 7 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 12 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Esther 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 11 usages, Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2572 FAQ

What does chamishshim (חֲמִשִּׁים) mean?

Chamishshim (Strong's H2572) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fifty". chamishshiym (kham-ish-sheem') num. 1. fifty [multiple of H2568]

How many times is chamishshim (חֲמִשִּׁים) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 141 linked usages for Strong's H2572 across 18 books.

Where can I study chamishshim (חֲמִשִּׁים) in context?

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What English words translate chamishshim (חֲמִשִּׁים)?

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