Genesis 5:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 5:16 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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Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then after he fathered Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And after he had become the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And after he had become the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Also Mahalaleel liued, after he begate Iered, eight hundreth and thirtie yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Malaleel lived after he begot Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel liveth after his begetting Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Mahalaleel lives after his begetting Jared eight hundred and thirty years [[or seven hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then after he fathered Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    After Jared was born, Mahalalel lived another 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Mahalalel lived after he begot Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

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מַֽהֲלַלְאֵ֗ל
Mahălalʼêl
H4111
“Mahalaleel”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4110 and H410

TWOT: None

Mahalaleel = "praise of God" - son of Cainan and the 4th in descent from Adam in the line of Seth - a descendant of Perez, the son of Judah
  1. וַֽיְחִ֣י châyâh H2421 “and · to live” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. אַֽחֲרֵי֙ ʼachar H310 “after” Preposition
  3. הוֹלִיד֣וֹ yâlad H3205 “to bear · him” Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  5. יֶ֔רֶד Yered H3382 “Jared” Noun, Proper
  6. שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים shᵉlôwshîym H7970 “thirty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  7. שָׁנָ֔ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וּשְׁמֹנֶ֥ה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  9. מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  10. שָׁנָ֑ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  11. וַיּ֥וֹלֶד yâlad H3205 “and · to bear” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  12. בָּנִ֖ים bên H1121 “sons” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  13. וּבָנֽוֹת bath H1323 “and · daughters” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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14
words
12
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

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

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 6 nouns
  • 3 adjectives
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַֽיְחִ֣י Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • הוֹלִיד֣וֹ Hiphil · Infinitive Construct
  • וַיּ֥וֹלֶד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • הוֹלִיד֣וֹ to bear H3205 ×2
  • שָׁנָ֔ה year H8141 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 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 14 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.

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.

Hebrew Genesis 5:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַֽיְחִ֣י מַֽהֲלַלְאֵ֗ל אַֽחֲרֵי֙ הוֹלִיד֣וֹ אֶת יֶ֔רֶד שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה וּשְׁמֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בָּנִ֖ים וּבָנֽוֹת

Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 5:16 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ζάω μαλελεηλ μετά ὁ γεννάω αὐτός ὁ ιαρεδ ἑπτακόσιοι καί τριάκοντα ἔτος καί γεννάω υἱός καί θυγάτηρ

And Maleleel lived after his begetting Jared, seven hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, John Gill's Exposition discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 בָּתַר דְּאוֹלִיד יָת יֶרֶד תַּמְנֵי מְאָה וּתְלָתִין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    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 בָּתַר דְאוֹלִיד יַת יֶרֶד תְּמָנֵי מְאָה וּתְלָתִין שְׁנִין וְאוֹלִיד בְּנִין וּבְנָן

    And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty 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.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 5:16 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.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Gen 5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

Ver. 16. And begat.] {See Trapp on "Gen 5:13}

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. Here the Septuagint version adds again an hundred years; and that Enoch had a son, whose name was Methuselah, is affirmed by Eupolemus (r), an Heathen writer; and Enoch being a prophet gave him this name under a spirit of prophecy, foretelling by it when the flood should be; for his name, according to Bochart (s), signifies, "when he dies there shall be an emission", or sending forth of waters upon the earth, to destroy it,

(r) Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 9. c. 17. p. 419. (s) Thaleg. l. 2. c. 13. col. 88. so Ainsworth.

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

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mahălalʼêl (“Mahalaleel”). 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. Genesis 5:12 shares the word «Mahalaleel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “to bear” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  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 «וַֽיְחִ֣י» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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