וַֽיְחִי פֶ֖לֶג שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת רְעֽוּ
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 11:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 11:18 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.
English Translation
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
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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
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Peleg lived thirty years, then he fathered Reu.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Peleg liued thirtie yeeres, and begate Reu.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Phaleg also lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Peleg lived thirty years, then he fathered Reu.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
When Peleg was 30, he had Reu.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
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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רְעֽוּ
Rᵉʻûw
H7466
“Reu”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Reu = "friend"
- son of Peleg and an ancestor of Abraham
- וַֽיְחִי châyâh H2421 “and · to live” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- פֶ֖לֶג Peleg H6389 “Peleg” Noun, Proper
- שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים shᵉlôwshîym H7970 “thirty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שָׁנָ֑ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וַיּ֖וֹלֶד yâlad H3205 “and · to bear” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- רְעֽוּ Rᵉʻûw H7466 “Reu” Noun, Proper
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is רְעֽוּ Reu H7466 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- רְעֽוּ Reu H7466
Shared distinctive vocabulary
רְעֽוּ Reu H7466 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 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 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.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Genesis 11:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Luke 3:35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ζάω φαλεκ ἑκατόν τριάκοντα ἔτος καί γεννάω ὁ ραγαυ
And Phaleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
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)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וַחֲיָא פֶלֶג תְּלָתִין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יָת רְעוּ
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.
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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וַחֲיָא פֶּלֶג תְּלָתִין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יַת רְעוּ
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.
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.
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 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Rᵉʻûw (“Reu”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Reu” (Rᵉʻûw) shape what this verse is saying?
- This is the first place “Reu” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Genesis 11:19, which shares the word «Reu», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַֽיְחִי» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 11:18 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 →
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Gill's Exposition
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
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
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.