Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Then after he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
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Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Serug liued, after he begate Nahor, two hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
And Sarug lived after he begot Nachor, two hundred years: and begot sons and daughters.
And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
Then after he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
Serug lived another 200 years after Nahor was born and had other sons and daughters.
And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שְׂר֗וּג Serug H8286 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שְׂר֗וּג Serug H8286 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 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.
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.
וַיְחִ֣י שְׂר֗וּג אַחֲרֵ֛י הוֹלִיד֥וֹ אֶת נָח֖וֹר מָאתַ֣יִם שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בָּנִ֖ים וּבָנֽוֹת
Serug lived after he became the father of Nahor two hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ζάω σερουχ μετά ὁ γεννάω αὐτός ὁ ναχωρ ἔτος διακόσιοι καί γεννάω υἱός καί θυγάτηρ καί ἀποθνήσκω
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
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 →
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.
וַחֲיָא שְׂרוּג בָּתַר דְּאוֹלִיד יָת נָחוֹר מָאתָן שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן
And Serug lived after he had begotten Nachor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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.
וַחֲיָא שְרוּג בָּתַר דְאוֹלִיד יַת נָחוֹר מָאתָן שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן
And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (10 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.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 11:23 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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John Gill's Exposition
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