Genesis 5:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 5:7 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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Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then after he fathered Enosh, Seth lived 807 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And Sheth liued, after he begate Enosh, eight hundreth and seuen yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Seth lived after he begot Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Seth liveth after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Seth lives after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years [[or seven hundred and seven years]], and begets sons and daughters.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    After he became the father of Enosh, he lived 807 years and became the father of more sons and daughters.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then after he fathered Enosh, Seth lived 807 years, and he fathered sons and daughters.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Seth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Seth lived another 807 years after Enosh was born, and had other sons and daughters.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Seth lived after he begot Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

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אֱנ֔וֹשׁ
ʼĔnôwsh
H583
“Enos”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H582

TWOT: None

Enos = "man" - son of Seth
  1. וַֽיְחִי châyâh H2421 “and · to live” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. שֵׁ֗ת Shêth H8352 “Seth” Noun, Proper
  3. אַֽחֲרֵי֙ ʼachar H310 “after” Preposition
  4. הוֹלִיד֣וֹ yâlad H3205 “to bear · him” Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  6. שֶׁ֣בַע shebaʻ H7651 “seven” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  7. שָׁנִ֔ים shâneh H8141 “years” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, 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 אֱנ֔וֹשׁ Enos H583 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֱנ֔וֹשׁ Enos H583 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

  • וַֽיְחִי 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
  • שָׁנִ֔ים 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 5:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַֽיְחִי שֵׁ֗ת אַֽחֲרֵי֙ הוֹלִיד֣וֹ אֶת אֱנ֔וֹשׁ שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֔ים וּשְׁמֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בָּנִ֖ים וּבָנֽוֹת

Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 5:7 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ζάω σηθ μετά ὁ γεννάω αὐτός ὁ ενως ἑπτακόσιοι καί ἑπτά ἔτος καί γεννάω υἱός καί θυγάτηρ

And Seth lived after his begetting Enos, seven hundred and seven years, and he begot sons and daughters.

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 שֵׁת בָּתַר דְּאוֹלִיד יָת אֱנוֹשׁ תַּמְנֵי מְאָה וּשְׁבַע 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.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 5:7 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 5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

Ver. 7. Eight hundred and seven years.] {See Trapp on "Gen 5:20"}

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 all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. As his father Adam before him. Seth, according to Josephus (l), was a very good man, and brought up his children well, who trod in his steps, and who studied the nature of the heavenly bodies; and that the knowledge of these things they had acquired might not be lost, remembering a prophecy of Adam, that the world should be destroyed both by fire and by water, they erected two pillars, called Seth's pillars; the one was made of brick, and the other of stone, on which they inscribed their observations, that so if that of brick was destroyed by a flood, that of stone might remain; and which the above writer says continued in his time in the land of Siriad. The Arabic writers (m) make Seth to be the inventor of the Hebrew letters, and say, that when he was about to die he called to him Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, their wives and children, and adjured them by the blood of Abel not to descend from the mountain where they dwelt, after the death of Adam, nor suffer any of their children to go to, or mix with any of the seed of Cain, which were in the valley; whom he blessed, and ordered by his will to serve the Lord, and then died in the year of his age nine hundred and twelve, on the third day of the week of the month Ab (which answers to part of July and part of August), A. M. 1142, and his sons buried him in the hidden cave in the holy mountain, and mourned for him forty days.

(l) Antiqu. l. 1. c. 2. sect. 3. (m) Elmacinus, Patricides, apud Hottinger, p. 228, 229.

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 ʼĔnôwsh (“Enos”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Enos” (ʼĔnôwsh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Genesis 4:26 shares the word «Enos» 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. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. The verb «וַֽיְחִי» 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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