King James Version
Genesis 5:19 in the King James Version says “And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:”
Genesis 5:19 · KJV
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:
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: Methuselah: Gr. Mathusala
KJV Study — Public Domain
“after”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
“and begat”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“eight”
H8083a cardinal number, eight (as if a surplus above the 'perfect' seven); also (as ordinal) eighth
“and begat”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
“sons”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and daughters”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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