Genesis 5:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וֽ͏ַיְחִ֣י אָדָ֗ם שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וּמְאַת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בִּדְמוּת֖וֹ כְּצַלְמ֑וֹ וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ שֵֽׁת׃

Transliteration

wayḥî ʾādām šəlōšîm ûməʾat šānāh wayyôled in-dəmûtô kəṣalmô wayyiqrāʾ ʾet-šəmô šēt

Grammar Details

• *wayḥî*: conjunction *wə-* + 3rd masculine singular qal imperfect consecutive of *ḥāyāh* - and he lived
• *ʾādām*: proper noun, masculine - Adam/man
• *šəlōšîm*: cardinal number - thirty
• *ûməʾat*: conjunction *wə-* + feminine singular construct - and hundred
• *šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year
• *wayyôled*: conjunction *wə-* + 3rd masculine singular hiphil imperfect consecutive - and he begat
• *dəmûtô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix with prefix *bə-* - in his likeness
• *kəṣalmô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix with prefix *kə-* - according to his image
• *wayyiqrāʾ*: conjunction *wə-* + 3rd masculine singular qal imperfect consecutive - and he called
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *šəmô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name
• *šēt*: proper noun - Seth

Word Meanings

• *wayḥî*: lived/existed/remained alive
• *wayyôled*: begat/fathered/brought forth
• *dəmûtô*: his likeness/his resemblance/his pattern
• *ṣalmô*: his image/his representation/his form
• *šēt*: Seth (proper name, meaning 'appointed/placed')

Referenced Verses

• Gen 4:25 : 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, [said she], God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.
• Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Ps 14:2-3 : 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. 3 They are all gone aside; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.
• John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Rom 5:12 : 12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned: —
• 1 Cor 15:39 : 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one {G3303} [flesh] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.
• Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: —