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Genesis 5:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 5:15 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 5:15 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/genesis/5/15.

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Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then he fathered Jared.

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
    Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Mahalaleel also liued sixtie and fiue yeres, and begate Iered.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Malaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Jared.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Mahalaleel lives sixty-five years [[or one hundred and sixty-five years]], and begets Jared.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then he fathered Jared.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begot Jared.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Mahalalel was 65, he had Jared.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared.

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8
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מַֽהֲלַלְאֵ֔ל Mahalaleel H4111 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • וְשִׁשִּׁ֣ים sixty H8346
  • יָֽרֶד Jared H3382

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מַֽהֲלַלְאֵ֔ל Mahalaleel H4111 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 2 adjectives
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַֽיְחִ֣י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיּ֖וֹלֶד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • שָׁנִ֖ים year H8141 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

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 9 Hebrew tokens and 12 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 5:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

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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.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 14 words vs World English Bible 10. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Genesis 5:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַֽיְחִ֣י מַֽהֲלַלְאֵ֔ל חָמֵ֥שׁ שָׁנִ֖ים וְשִׁשִּׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת יָֽרֶד

Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 5:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ζάω μαλελεηλ ἑκατόν καί ἑξήκοντα πέντε ἔτος καί γεννάω ὁ ιαρεδ

And Maleleel lived one hundred and sixty and five years, and he begot Jared.

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 מַהֲלַלְאֵל שִׁתִּין וַחֲמֵשׁ שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יָת יָרֶד

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    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 מַהֲלַלְאֵל שִׁתִּין וַחֲמֵשׁ שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד יַת יֶרֶד

    And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and begat Jared.

    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 5:15 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 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:

Ver. 15. And begat Jared,] i.e., One that is going down, sc., to the dust of death: for, to live, is but to lie a-dying: every day we yield somewhat to death, and a man’s cradle stands in his grave.

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

15. Jared] Heb. Yared = “a going down.” Cf. Jordan (Heb. Yardên) = “the going down, or descending, river” (?). The Book of jubilees, written in the latter part of the second century b.c., made use of this Hebrew etymology of the name, and connected it with the descending of angels upon the earth, when “the sons of God saw the daughters of men,” &c., Gen_6:2. To suppose that it denotes “descent,” in the sense of “deterioration,” is very far fetched.

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 all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years, and he died. The name of this patriarch signifies "descending"; and, according to the Arabic writers (q), he had his name from the posterity of Seth, descending from the holy mountain in his time; for upon a noise being heard on the mountain, about an hundred men went down to the sons of Cain, contrary to the prohibition and dehortation of Jared, and mixed themselves with the daughters of Cain, which brought on the apostasy: when Jared was near his end, he called to him Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, and their children, and said unto them, ye know what some have done, that they have gone down from the mountain, and have had conversation with the daughters of Cain, and have defiled themselves; take you care of your purity, and do not descend from the holy mountain; after which he blessed them, and having appointed Enoch his successor, he died the twelfth of Adar, answering to February, A. M. 1922: according to the Samaritan version, he lived only eight hundred and forty seven years: he died, according to Bishop Usher, A. M. 1422.

(q) Elmacinus, & Patricides in ib. p. 235.

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

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General Information:

The records in Genesis 5:6-27 have the same format. Translate them according to the notes in Genesis 5:6-8. (See: How to Translate Names and Numbers)

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Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mahălalʼêl (“Mahalaleel”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Mahalaleel” (Mahălalʼêl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
  3. How does Genesis 5:12, which shares the word «Mahalaleel», read alongside this verse?
  4. What does the repetition of “year” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  5. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  6. 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?
  7. «וַֽיְחִ֣י» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  8. 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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