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Genesis 11:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 11:14 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Genesis 11:14 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/genesis/11/14.

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Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
World English Bible · Public Domain
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Shelah lived thirty years, then he fathered Eber.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And Shelah liued thirtie yeeres, and begat Eber.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Shelah lived thirty years, then he fathered Eber.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Shelah was 30, he had Eber.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְשֶׁ֥לַח Shelah H7974 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְשֶׁ֥לַח Shelah H7974 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • חַ֖י Qal · Perfect
  • וַיּ֖וֹלֶד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 7 Hebrew tokens and 10 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Genesis 11:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשֶׁ֥לַח חַ֖י שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת עֵֽבֶר

Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 11:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ζάω σαλα ἑκατόν τριάκοντα ἔτος καί γεννάω ὁ εβερ

And Sala lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְשֶׁלַח חֲיָא תְּלָתִין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יָת עֵבֶר

    And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber.

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְשֶׁלַח חֲיָא תְּלָתִין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יַת עֵבֶר

    And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 11:14 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

14. Eber] See note on Gen_10:24. Here, as in that passage, the context suggests that a name meaning “the other side” or “across,” is most naturally applicable to a country on the east side of the river Euphrates.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Eber lived thirty four years, and begat Peleg. Of Peleg, see Gill on Gen 10:25.

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Genesis 11:17

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gen 11:17

gen 11:17And Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty

years,.... All the years of his life were four hundred and sixty four:

and he begat sons and daughters; one of which is elsewhere mentioned, whose name is Joktan, Gen 10:25 according to the above Jewish writer (e), he died in the seventy ninth year of Jacob.

(e) R. Gedaliah, Shalshalet, fol. 1. 2.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 14, 15. And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber. Literally, the region on the otherside (peran); from rb; to pass over (cf. uJper, Greek; uber, German; over, Saxon). The ancestor of the Hebrews, (Gen_10:21) so called from his descendants having crossed the Euphrates and commenced a southward emigration, or from the circumstance that he or another portion of his posterity remained on the other side. Prof. Lewis thinks that this branch of the Shemites, having lingered so long in the upper country, had not much to do with the tower building on the plain of Shinar. And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years (in all 433 years, or five years less than Arphaxad), and begat sons and daughters.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

The records in Genesis 11:12-25 have the same format. See how you translated them in Genesis 11:12-13. (See: How to Translate Names and Numbers)

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shelach (“Shelah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Shelah” (Shelach) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Genesis 10:24, which shares the word «Shelah», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «חַ֖י» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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