The Meaning of Genesis 5:5 Explained

Genesis 5:5

KJV: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

YLT: And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dieth.

Darby: And all the days of Adam that he lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

ASV: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And all the days  that Adam  lived  were nine  hundred  and thirty  years:  and he died. 

What does Genesis 5:5 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 5:5 mean?

So were all the days Adam that lived nine hundred years and thirty years and he died -
וַיִּֽהְי֞וּ כָּל־ יְמֵ֤י אָדָם֙ אֲשֶׁר־ חַ֔י תְּשַׁ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיָּמֹֽת ס

וַיִּֽהְי֞וּ  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.
יְמֵ֤י  the  days 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
אָדָם֙  Adam 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: אָדָם 
Sense: first man.
אֲשֶׁר־  that 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
חַ֔י  lived 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: חַי 
Sense: living, alive.
תְּשַׁ֤ע  nine 
Parse: Number, feminine singular construct
Root: תֵּשַׁע  
Sense: nine, nonad.
מֵאוֹת֙  hundred 
Parse: Number, feminine plural
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
שָׁנָ֔ה  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים  and  thirty 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, common plural
Root: שְׁלֹשִׁים  
Sense: thirty, thirtieth.
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