Exodus 6:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקַּ֨ח עַמְרָ֜ם אֶת־יוֹכֶ֤בֶד דֹּֽדָתוֹ֙ ל֣וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֔ה וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֔וֹ אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹ֖ן וְאֶת־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וּשְׁנֵי֙ חַיֵּ֣י עַמְרָ֔ם שֶׁ֧בַע וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛ים וּמְאַ֖ת שָׁנָֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-yiqqaḥ ʿAmrām ʾet-Yôḵeḇed dōdātô to-him for-ʾiššāh wə-tēled to-him ʾet-ʾAhărōn wə-ʾet-Mōšeh û-šənê ḥayyê ʿAmrām seven and-thirty and-hundred šānāh

Grammar Details

*wə-yiqqaḥ*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he took
*ʿAmrām*: proper noun - Amram
*ʾet-Yôḵeḇed*: direct object marker + proper noun - Jochebed
*dōdātô*: noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his aunt
to-him: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix *lô* - to him
for-*ʾiššāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - for a wife
*wə-tēled*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - and she bore
*ʾet-ʾAhărōn*: direct object marker + proper noun - Aaron
*wə-ʾet-Mōšeh*: conjunction + direct object marker + proper noun - and Moses
*û-šənê*: conjunction + noun, masculine dual construct - and years of
*ḥayyê*: noun, masculine plural construct - life of
seven: number *šeḇaʿ* - seven
and-thirty: conjunction + number *û-šəlōšîm* - and thirty
and-hundred: conjunction + number *û-məʾat* - and hundred
*šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year

Word Meanings

*yiqqaḥ*: he took, he married, he received
*ʿAmrām*: Amram
*Yôḵeḇed*: Jochebed
*dōdātô*: his aunt, his father's sister
*ʾiššāh*: wife, woman
*tēled*: she bore, she gave birth to, she delivered
*ʾAhărōn*: Aaron
*Mōšeh*: Moses
*šənê*: years of
*ḥayyê*: life of, lifetime of
*šānāh*: year

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Referenced Verses

Exod 2:1-2 : 1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Num 26:59 : 59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
Exod 6:16 : 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
Exod 6:18 : 18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

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