Word

חֲמִשִּׁים

chămishshîym · H2572 · Hebrew · 163 occurrences

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Meanings

five

State in which a countable entity is five in number

Examples
Genesis 18:28 “Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will You destroy the entire city because of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
Exodus 27:18 “The length of the courtyard shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.
Ezekiel 40:21 It had three guardrooms on each side; and its side pillars and its porches had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
fifty

State in which a countable entity is fifty in number

Examples
Genesis 6:15 “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Genesis 18:24 “Suppose there are fifty righteous people within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
Genesis 18:26 So the LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the entire place on their account.”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

8 occurrences in 3 groups

הוּhis 5
ךָyour 2
הֶםtheir 1

What is done to itIt is the object

8 occurrences in 2 groups

אָכַלto eat, to devour 5
שָׁלַחto send, to send away 3

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

5 occurrences in 4 groups

אִישׁman, person, each 2
בֵּןson 1
קֶלַעhangings, curtain, sling 1
רֹחַבbreadth 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

11 occurrences in 1 groups

שַׂרcommander, chief, official 11

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

πεντήκοντα pentḗkonta · G4004 · fifty: Direct numerical equivalent: Greek πεντήκοντα renders Hebrew חֲמִשִּׁים in cardinal numeral contexts, both denoting the quantity fifty.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Quantity002001001046: חֲמִשִּׁים denotes the number fifty, used as an ordinary cardinal numeral throughout the Old Testament, as in the dimensions of the ark (Genesis 6:15) and the flood's 150 days (Genesis 7:24, 8:3).
Frequency002001003009: The same numeral is used distributively in the idiom "150 apiece" for imported horses (2 Chronicles 1:17), genuinely illustrating a repeated, per-unit sense of frequency or distribution rather than a simple count.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

חָמֵשׁ châmêsh · H2568 · five, fifty · 343×חֲמִשִּׁיםchămishshîym · H2572חֲמִישִׁי chămîyshîy · H2549 · fifth, a fifth (part) · 45×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2572. chamishshim חֲמִשִּׁים164 noun plural (a) fifty (Arabic Aramaic , Phoenician חמשם;…

H2572. chamishshim
חֲמִשִּׁים164 noun plural (a) fifty (Arabic Aramaic , Phoenician חמשם; MI28 חמשן; Assyrian —amšâti Di in LotzTP 80) — חֲמִשִּׁים Gen 6:15 154t. (including Eze 40:25, Eze 40:29, Eze 40:33, strike out Co) + Eze 45:12 (so read A Hi Co for חמּשׁה); suffix חֲמִשֶּׁיךָ 2Ki 1:10, 2Ki 1:12, חֲמִשָּׁיו 2Ki 1:9 2Ki 1:4t., חֲמִשֵּׁיהֶם 2Ki 1:14; — 1 absolute
a. a fifty, a company of fifty Exo 18:21, Exo 18:25; Deu 1:15; 1Sa 8:12; 2Ki 1:9 (twice in verse) + 13 t. 2 Kings 1 (in 2Ki 1:14 = fifties), Isa 3:3.
b. elsewhere, without noun expressed, (1) without other numeral Num 31:30, Num 31:47; Eze 27:18 (twice in verse); Hag 2:16; (2) with other number ׳ח preceding Exo 30:23 (twice in verse) + 11 t.; + 1Ch 12:34 Baer, van d. H. v.1Ch 12:33 (followed by אלף); (3) ׳ח following Exo 38:26 Exo 38:10t.; (4) ׳ח between other number Num 1:23 Num 1:23t.
2 חֲמִשִּׁים without other number:
a. before noun Gen 6:15 58t. + ׳ח בָּאַמָּה Exo 38:12.
b. after noun 2Sa 24:24; Exo 26:11 Exo 26:4t. Chronicles
3 ׳ח before other numbers:
a. followed by noun Gen 7:24 +.
b. preceded by noun 1Ch 5:21.
4 ׳ח after other number, and
a. this after noun 1Ch 8:40; Ezr 8:3, Ezr 8:26.
b. noun repeated e.g. Gen 9:28-29,.
5 ׳ח preceded by construct e.g. ח ׳בִּשְׁנַת שָׁנָה 2Ki 15:23, 2Ki 15:27; Lev 15:10-11,.
6 ׳ח = ordinal, fiftieth Lev 25:10-11, 2Ki 15:23, compare 2Ki 15:27.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0