Genesis 5:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Adam lived an 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 God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
• 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 which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Ps 14:2-3 : 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was shapen{H8797)} in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive{H8765)} me.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee 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 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
• 1 Cor 15:39 : 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
• Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.