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Genesis 5:27 KJV
Genesis · chapter 5 · verse 27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.Genesis 5:27 · King James Version
Genesis 5:27 in context
25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
28And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- MethuselahMᵉthûwshelachMethushelach, an antediluvian patriarchH4968 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- hundredshâneha yearH8141 →
- sixtyshishshîymsixtyH8346 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
- ninetêshaʻnine or ninthH8672 →
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Concerning Methuselah observe, 1. The signification of his name, which some think was prophetical, his father Enoch being a prophet. Methuselah signifies, he dies, or there is a dart, or, a sending forth, namely, of the deluge, which came the very year that Methuselah died.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-27