Hebrew Interlinear

Genesis 6:3 Interlinear

said And the LORD strive My spirit with man shall not always for that he also is flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years

Word-by-Word Analysis

#OriginalStrong'sEnglishDefinition
1וַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559saidto say (used with great latitude)
2יְהוָ֗הH3068And the LORD(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
3לֹֽאH3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
4יָד֨וֹןH1777striveto rule; by implication to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law)
5רוּחִ֤יH7307My spiritwind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
6בָֽאָדָם֙H120with manruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
7לְעֹלָ֔םH5769shall not alwaysproperly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial
8בְּשַׁגַּ֖םH1571for that he alsoproperly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
9ה֣וּאH1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
10בָשָׂ֑רH1320is fleshflesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
11וְהָי֣וּH1961to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
12יָמָ֔יוH3117yet his daysa day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
13מֵאָ֥הH3967shall be an hundreda hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
14וְעֶשְׂרִ֖יםH6242and twentytwenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
15שָׁנָֽה׃H8141yearsa year (as a revolution of time)

Verse Context

Genesis 6:2saw That the sons of God the daughters of men...
Genesis 6:3 (current)said And the LORD strive My spirit with man shall not always for that he also is flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years
Genesis 6:4There were giants in the earth in those days children to them the same ...

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