King James Version
Genesis 5:30 in the King James Version says “And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:”
Genesis 5:30 · KJV
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. Noah: Gr. Noe: that is Rest, or, Comfort
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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“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)
“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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