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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