The Meaning of Genesis 5:23 Explained

Genesis 5:23

KJV: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

YLT: And all the days of Enoch are three hundred and sixty and five years.

Darby: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

ASV: and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And all the days  of Enoch  were three  hundred  sixty  and five  years: 

What does Genesis 5:23 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 5:23 mean?

So were all the days of Enoch five and sixty years and three hundred years
וַיְהִ֖י כָּל־ יְמֵ֣י חֲנ֑וֹךְ חָמֵ֤שׁ וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָֽה

וַיְהִ֖י  So  were 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
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.
חֲנ֑וֹךְ  of  Enoch 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֲנׄוךְ 
Sense: eldest son of Cain.
חָמֵ֤שׁ  five 
Parse: Number, feminine singular
Root: חָמֵשׁ  
Sense: five.
וְשִׁשִּׁים֙  and  sixty 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, common plural
Root: שִׁשִּׁים  
Sense: sixty, three score.
שָׁנָ֔ה  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁ  and  three 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, feminine singular construct
Root: מִשְׁלֹשׁ 
Sense: three, triad.
מֵא֖וֹת  hundred 
Parse: Number, feminine plural
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
שָׁנָֽה  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.

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