Genesis 6:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵ֚לֶּה תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת נֹ֔חַ נֹ֗חַ אִ֥ישׁ צַדִּ֛יק תָּמִ֥ים הָיָ֖ה בְּדֹֽרֹתָ֑יו אֶת־הֽ͏ָאֱלֹהִ֖ים הִֽתְהַלֶּךְ־נֹֽחַ׃

Transliteration

These tôlĕdōt Nōaḥ Nōaḥ ʾîš ṣaddîq tāmîm hāyâ in dōrōtāyw ʾet-hā-ʾĕlōhîm hithallek-Nōaḥ

Grammar Details

*tôlĕdōt*: noun feminine plural construct - generations of/account of
*Nōaḥ*: proper noun - Noah
*ʾîš*: noun masculine singular - man
*ṣaddîq*: adjective masculine singular - righteous/just
*tāmîm*: adjective masculine singular - perfect/complete/blameless
*hāyâ*: qal perfect 3ms - was
*dōrōtāyw*: noun masculine plural + 3ms suffix with prefix preposition - in his generations
*ʾet*: preposition with
*hā-ʾĕlōhîm*: noun masculine plural with definite article - God
*hithallek*: hithpael perfect 3ms - walked

Word Meanings

*tôlĕdōt*: generations/account/history
*ṣaddîq*: righteous/just/lawful
*tāmîm*: perfect/complete/blameless/whole
*hithallek*: walked/walked habitually/walked about

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Referenced Verses

Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Gen 5:24 : 24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Gen 7:1 : 1 And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Gen 17:1 : 1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.
Gen 5:22 : 22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Ezek 14:14 : 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezek 14:20 : 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
1 Pet 2:5 : 5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Job 1:8 : 8 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.
Job 12:4 : 4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Ps 37:37 : 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.
Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Eccl 7:20 : 20 Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Luke 2:25 : 25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
Luke 23:50 : 50 And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a councillor, a good and righteous man
Acts 10:22 : 22 And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and one that feareth God, and well reported of by all the nation of the Jews, was warned [of God] by a holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words from thee.
Rom 1:17 : 17 For therein {G846} is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.
Gal 3:11 : 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;
Phil 3:9-9 : 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith: 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; 11 if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14 I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal {G2532} unto you:
Gen 48:15 : 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day,
1 Kgs 3:6 : 6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great lovingkindness, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great lovingkindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
2 Chr 15:17 : 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chr 25:2 : 2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.
Gen 10:1 : 1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, [namely], of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Gen 2:4 : 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
Gen 5:1 : 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Hab 2:4 : 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Gen 6:8
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8But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.
Gen 6:10-11
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10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Gen 7:1
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1And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Gen 7:5-7
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5And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.
6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Gen 6:22
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22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Gen 9:8
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8And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Gen 8:15-16
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15And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
2 Pet 2:5
73%
5and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Heb 11:7
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7By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
Gen 8:18
72%
18And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
Gen 9:28-29
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28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: And he died.
Gen 7:12-13
2 verses
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12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Gen 9:1
71%
1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Gen 10:1
71%
1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, [namely], of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Gen 5:32
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32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Gen 9:18-20
3 verses
70%
18And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread.
20And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
Gen 10:32
70%
32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Gen 5:22
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22and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 7:23-24
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70%
23And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.
24And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Gen 7:9-10
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69%
9there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
10And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Gen 6:18
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18But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
1 Chr 1:3-4
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3Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
4Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Gen 5:24
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24and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Gen 6:13
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13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
1 Pet 3:20
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20that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein {G3739} few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
Prov 20:7
68%
7A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
2 Pet 3:6
68%
6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
Gen 8:1
68%
1And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;