וַיִּהְיוּ֙ כָּל יְמֵ֣י מַהֲלַלְאֵ֔ל חָמֵ֤שׁ וְתִשְׁעִים֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וּשְׁמֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיָּמֹֽת
All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Genesis 5:17
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 5:17 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
All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
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King James Version Public Domain
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
So all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.
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
All the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.
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King James Version Public Domain
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
So all the dayes of Mahalaleel were eight hundreth ninetie and fiue yeeres: and he died.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And all the days of Malaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And all the days of Mahalaleel are eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he dieth.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And all the days of Mahalaleel are eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he dies.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
So all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died.
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מַהֲלַלְאֵ֔ל
Mahălalʼêl
H4111
“Mahalaleel”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 5:12
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
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
- וַיִּהְיוּ֙ hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יְמֵ֣י yôwm H3117 “days of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- מַהֲלַלְאֵ֔ל Mahălalʼêl H4111 “Mahalaleel” Noun, Proper
- חָמֵ֤שׁ châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְתִשְׁעִים֙ tishʻîym H8673 “and · ninety” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שָׁנָ֔ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וּשְׁמֹנֶ֥ה shᵉmôneh H8083 “and · eight” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֖וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שָׁנָ֑ה shâneh H8141 “year” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וַיָּמֹֽת mûwth H4191 “and · to die” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 →
- 11
- words
- 10
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מַהֲלַלְאֵ֔ל Mahalaleel H4111 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מַהֲלַלְאֵ֔ל Mahalaleel H4111 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 4 adjectives
Verb forms
- וַיִּהְיוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיָּמֹֽת Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- שָׁנָ֔ה year H8141 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 13 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.
καί γίγνομαι πᾶς ὁ ἡμέρα μαλελεηλ ὀκτακόσιοι καί ἐνενήκοντα πέντε ἔτος καί ἀποθνήσκω
And all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he 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 →
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)
וַהֲווֹ כָּל יוֹמֵי מַהֲלַלְאֵל תַּמְנֵי מְאָה וְתִשְׁעִין וַחֲמֵשׁ שְׁנִין וּמִית
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וַהֲווֹ כָּל יוֹמֵי מַהֲלַלְאֵל תְּמָנֵי מְאָה וְתִשְׁעִין וַחֲמֵשׁ שְׁנִין וּמִית
And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.
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 11 words (10 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
- What does “Mahalaleel” (Mahălalʼêl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 5:12, which shares the word «Mahalaleel», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “year” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַיִּהְיוּ֙» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- “year” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 5:17 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
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.