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Genesis 11:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 11:16 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 11:16 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/genesis/11/16.

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

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
    Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Likewise Eber liued foure and thirtie yeres, and begate Peleg.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Heber lived thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Eber lived thirty-four years, then he fathered Peleg.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Eber was 34, he had Peleg.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.

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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8
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8
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is פָּֽלֶג Peleg H6389 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

פָּֽלֶג Peleg H6389 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 2 adjectives
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַֽיְחִי Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 11 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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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Genesis 11:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 10:21 To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
  • Genesis 10:25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
  • Numbers 24:24 But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim, They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; He also shall come to destruction.
  • 1 Chronicles 1:19 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
  • Luke 3:35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Genesis 11:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַֽיְחִי עֵ֕בֶר אַרְבַּ֥ע וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת פָּֽלֶג

Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 11:16 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ζάω εβερ ἑκατόν τριάκοντα τέσσαρες ἔτος καί γεννάω ὁ φαλεκ

And Heber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.

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)
    וַחֲיָא עֵבֶר תְּלָתִין וְאַרְבַּע שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יָת פָּלֶג

    And Eber lived thirty and four years, and begat Peleg.

    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)
    וַחֲיָא עֵבֶר תְּלָתִין וְאַרְבַּע שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יַת פָּלֶג

    And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begat Peleg.

    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 11:16 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Gen 11:16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

Ver. 16. And begat Peleg.] Whether Peleg were Heber’s firstborn, Buxtorf {a} doubteth and disputeth; but without any just cause. But, cum errat eruditus, errat errore erudito , saith the Arabic proverb. {b}

{a} Dissertat. 2 Thes 75.

{b} Erpenius. Centuricae duae Prov. Arab., 82.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

16. Peleg] See note on Gen_10:25.

The geographer Kiepert compares a place Φαλιγά at the junction of the tributary Ḥabor with 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 Peleg lived, after he begat Reu, two hundred and nine years,.... In all two hundred and thirty nine, little more than half the age of his father:

and begat sons and daughters; but not named the Arabic writers (g) say he begat Melchizedek the priest, and that he died in the month Elul, A. M. 3126; and a Jewish writer (h) says he died in the forty eighth year of Abraham.

(g) Elmacinus apud Hottinger. p. 269. (h) R. Gedaliah, ut supra. (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. 16, 17. And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg. Division; from palag, to divide. For the reason of this cognomen vide. (Gen_10:25) And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years (thus reaching the age of 464, the longest-lived of the postdiluvian fathers) 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 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

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Peleg (“Peleg”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Peleg” (Peleg) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Genesis 10:25, which shares the word «Peleg», 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. «וַֽיְחִי» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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