The Meaning of Genesis 5:14 Explained

Genesis 5:14

KJV: And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

YLT: And all the days of Cainan are nine hundred and ten years, and he dieth.

Darby: And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

ASV: and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And all the days  of Cainan  were nine  hundred  and ten  years:  and he died. 

What does Genesis 5:14 Mean?

Context Summary

Genesis 5:1-24 - Posterity Of Adam
In contrast to Cain's line in the previous chapter, we have Seth's in this. Note the curious similarity in the names, as though the Cainites professed all that the Sethites held, but lacked the reality and power. There have always been these two families in the world, tares and wheat, goats and sheep. This is an old-world cemetery; we walk among old monuments with time-worn inscriptions. Though the Sethites were God-fearers, they were tinged with Adam's sin. He was made in God's image, but they in His. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh." We need what is described in Colossians 3:10 and Ephesians 4:23. The birth of Methuselah seems to have had a profound influence on his father. After that he walked with God. Faith will enable us to do the same, because it makes the unseen visible and God real. Go God's way: keep God's pace: talk to Him aloud and constantly, as the great Companion. [source]

Chapter Summary: Genesis 5

1  Recapitulation of the creation of man
3  The genealogy, age, and death of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah
22  Enoch's godliness and translation into Heaven
25  The family line of Methuselah to Noah and his sons

What do the individual words in Genesis 5:14 mean?

So were all the days of Cainan ten years and nine hundred years and he died -
וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ כָּל־ יְמֵ֣י קֵינָ֔ן עֶ֣שֶׂר שָׁנִ֔ים וּתְשַׁ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיָּמֹֽת ס

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙  So  were 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
יְמֵ֣י  the  days 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
קֵינָ֔ן  of  Cainan 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: קֵינָן  
Sense: son of Enosh and father of Mahalaleel.
עֶ֣שֶׂר  ten 
Parse: Number, feminine singular
Root: עֶשֶׂר 
Sense: ten.
שָׁנִ֔ים  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
וּתְשַׁ֥ע  and  nine 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, feminine singular construct
Root: תֵּשַׁע  
Sense: nine, nonad.
מֵא֖וֹת  hundred 
Parse: Number, feminine plural
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
שָׁנָ֑ה  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
וַיָּמֹֽת  and  he  died 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: מוּת  
Sense: to die, kill, have one executed.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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