The number 50 in the Bible — Yovel (Jubilee) · Liberty · The Spirit
חֲמִשִּׁים
Fifty is seven-sevens-plus-one: the day after seven complete weeks. Shavuot falls on the fiftieth day — the day tradition assigns to Sinai and the day the Spirit was poured out in Acts 2: law on tablets answered by law on hearts, three thousand fallen at the calf answered by three thousand saved. The fiftieth year is the Yovel: proclaim liberty throughout the land — debts released, land returned, captives home. Nun the seed sprouts: fifty is release into new life.
Where 50 shapes the story
Lev 25:10 — The Yovel — proclaim liberty in the land
Lev 23:15-16 — Count fifty days to Shavuot
Acts 2:1-4 — The Spirit poured out at Pentecost
Associations
Jubilee release and returnSinai and Pentecost — the two fiftieth daysFreedom purchased and proclaimed
Occurrences
Gen 6:15Gen 7:24Gen 8:3Gen 9:28Gen 9:29Gen 18:24Gen 18:26Gen 18:28Exod 26:5Exod 26:6Exod 26:10Exod 26:11Exod 27:12Exod 27:13Exod 27:18Exod 30:23Exod 36:12Exod 36:13Exod 36:17Exod 36:18Exod 38:12Exod 38:13Exod 38:26Lev 23:16Lev 25:10Lev 25:11Lev 27:3Lev 27:16Num 1:25Num 1:46Num 2:15Num 2:16Num 2:32Num 4:3Num 4:23Num 4:30Num 4:35Num 4:36Num 4:39Num 4:43Num 4:47Num 8:25Num 16:2Num 16:17Num 16:35Num 26:10Num 31:30Num 31:47Num 31:52Deut 22:29Josh 7:211Sam 6:192Sam 15:12Sam 24:241Kgs 1:51Kgs 7:21Kgs 7:61Kgs 9:231Kgs 10:291Kgs 18:4+49 more in the app