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Genesis 11:23 KJV
Genesis · chapter 11 · verse 23
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.Genesis 11:23 · King James Version
Genesis 11:23 in context
21And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
22And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
23And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- SerugSᵉrûwgSerug, a postdiluvian patriarchH8286 →
- livedchâyâhto live, whether literally or figurativelyH2421 →
- afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
- begatyâladto bear youngH3205 →
- NahorNâchôwrNochor, the name of the grandfather and a brother of AbrahamH5152 →
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We have here a genealogy, not an endless genealogy, for here it ends in Abram, the friend of God, and leads further to Christ, the promised seed, who was the son of Abram, and from Abram the genealogy of Christ is reckoned (Mat 1:1, etc.); so that put ch. 5, ch. 11, and Mt.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-26