Genesis 5 · Verse 19

Genesis 5:19

And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:19, King James Version

Genesis 5:19 in other translations

BSBAnd after he had become the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
WEBJared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
ASVand Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
YLTAnd Jared liveth after his begetting Enoch eight hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
DARBYAnd Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
BBEAnd Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
WebsterAnd Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

What does Genesis 5:19 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 5:6-20

Concerning each of these, except Enoch, it is said, "and he died." It is well to observe the deaths of others. They all lived very long; not one of them died till he had seen almost eight hundred years, and some of them lived much longer; a great while for an immortal soul to be prisoned in a house of clay. The present life surely was not to them such a burden as it commonly is now, else they would have been weary…

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Genesis 5:19 in the original Hebrew

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וַֽיְחִי\־vay.chi-and he livedH2421
יֶ֗רֶדYe.redJaredH3382
אַֽחֲרֵי֙'a.cha.ReiafterH310
הוֹלִיד֣וֹho.li.Dofathered heH3205
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
חֲנ֔וֹךְcha.NokhEnochH2585
שְׁמֹנֶ֥הshe.mo.NeheightH8083
מֵא֖וֹתme.'othundred<s>H3967
שָׁנָ֑הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141
וַיּ֥וֹלֶדvai.Yo.ledand he fatheredH3205
בָּנִ֖יםba.NimsonsH1121
וּבָנֽוֹת\׃u.va.Notand daughtersH1323

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

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Context

  • Genesis 5:18

    And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

  • Genesis 5:19

    And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Genesis 5:20

    And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

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Genesis 5:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y vivió Jared, después que engendró á Henoch, ochocientos años: y engendró hijos é hijas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Jéred, après qu’il eut engendré Hénoc, vécut 800 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Jered lebte, nachdem er Henoch gezeugt hatte, 800 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et vixit Jared, postquam genuit Henoch, octingentis annis, et genuit filios et filias.