Strong’s H2572 · Hebrew

חֲמִשִּׁים
chămishshîym
kham-ish-sheem'

Definition

fifty

Etymology

multiple of H2568 (חָמֵשׁ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • fifty

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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