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Genesis 11:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 11:22 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 11:22 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/genesis/11/22.

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Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
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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
    Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Serug lived thirty years, then he fathered Nahor.

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

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 שְׂר֖וּג Serug H8286 — 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:

  • נָחֽוֹר Nahor H5152

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שְׂר֖וּג Serug H8286 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

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

Verb forms

  • וַיְחִ֥י 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.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Genesis 11:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Joshua 24:2 Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Genesis 11:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְחִ֥י שְׂר֖וּג שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת נָחֽוֹר

Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 11:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ζάω σερουχ ἑκατόν τριάκοντα ἔτος καί γεννάω ὁ ναχωρ

And Seruch lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.

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 שְׂרוּג תְּלָתִין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יָת נָחוֹר

    And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor.

    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 שְרוּג תְּלָתִין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יַת נָחוֹר

    And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor.

    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 11:22 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 11:22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

Ver. 22. And begat Nahor.] Who, first of the patriarchs, fell to idolatry: for Laban sware by Nahor’s gods.

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

22. Nahor] The name here of Abram’s grandfather, as also, in Gen_11:26, of Abram’s brother (cf. Gen_22:20, Jos_24:2). Very similar personal names are found in early Assyrian business documents.

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

Now these are the generations of Terah,.... Or the genealogy of his posterity, which is a very short one; for it only gives an account of his three sons as before:

Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and of three grand children, Lot, Milcah, and Iscah, the children of Haran; and chiefly for the sake of Abram it is given, and indeed the above genealogy of Shem, which ends with him; and of whom and whose posterity the remaining part of this book of Genesis treats:

and Haran begat Lot: of whom we have some further account in Gen 13:1.

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. 22, 23. And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor. Pantie. (Gesenius); from nachar, to breathe hard, to snort. Piercer, slayer (Furst); from an unused root signifying to Bore through. And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years (or 230 in all), 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 Sᵉrûwg (“Serug”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Serug” (Sᵉrûwg) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. The word “Nahor” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Genesis 11:20 shares the word «Serug» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. The verb «וַיְחִ֥י» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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