King James Version
Genesis 5:17 in the King James Version says “And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.”
Genesis 5:17 · KJV
And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: Jared: Heb. Jered
And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“And all the days”
H3117a 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
“of Mahalaleel”
H4111mahalalel, the name of an antediluvian patriarch and of an israelite
“were eight”
H8083a cardinal number, eight (as if a surplus above the 'perfect' seven); also (as ordinal) eighth
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