Genesis 11 · Verse 32

Genesis 11:32

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 11:32, King James Version

Genesis 11:32 in other translations

BSBTerah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
WEBThe days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
ASVAnd the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
YLTAnd the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.
DARBYAnd the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
BBEAnd all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.
WebsterAnd the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

What does Genesis 11:32 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 11:27-32

Here begins the story of Abram, whose name is famous in both Testaments. Even the children of Eber had become worshippers of false gods. Those who are through grace, heirs of the land of promise, ought to remember what was the land of their birth; what was their corrupt and sinful state by nature. Abram's brethren were, Nahor, out of whose family both Isaac and Jacob had their wives; and Haran, the father of Lot…

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Genesis 11:32 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּהְי֣וּvai.yih.Yuand they wereH1961
יְמֵי\־ye.mei-[the] days ofH3117
תֶ֔רַחTe.rachTerahH8646
חָמֵ֥שׁcha.MeshfiveH2568
שָׁנִ֖יםsha.NimyearsH8141
וּמָאתַ֣יִםu.ma.Ta.yimand two hundredH3967
שָׁנָ֑הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141
וַיָּ֥מָתvai.Ya.motand he diedH4191
תֶּ֖רַחTe.rachTerahH8646
בְּחָרָֽן\׃\ \סbe.cha.Ranin HaranH2771

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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Context

  • Genesis 11:31

    And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

  • Genesis 11:32

    And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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Genesis 11:32 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y fueron los días de Thare doscientos y cinco años; y murió Thare en Harán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et les jours de Térakh furent 205 ans; et Térakh mourut à Charan.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und die Tage Tarahs waren 205 Jahre, und Tarah starb in Haran.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et facti sunt dies Thare ducentorum quinque annorum, et mortuus est in Haran.