King James Version
Genesis 6:3 in the King James Version says “And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hund...” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
Genesis 6:3 · KJV
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. every: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires continually: Heb. every day
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“And the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“My spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“with man”
H120ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
“shall not always”
H5769properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial
“for that he also”
H1571properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“is flesh”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“yet his 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
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