Genesis 4:26

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And Seth begat a sonne and called hys name Enos. And in that tyme began men to call on the name of the LORde.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּלְשֵׁ֤ת גַּם־הוּא֙ יֻלַּד־בֵּ֔ן וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ אֱנ֑וֹשׁ אָ֣ז הוּחַ֔ל לִקְרֹ֖א בְּשֵׁ֥ם יְהוָֽה׃ פ

Transliteration

And-to-Shet also-he yullad-ben and-he-yiqraʾ ʾet-his-name ʾEnosh then huḥal liqroʾ in-name-of YHWH

Grammar Details

• *u-le-Shet*: conjunction + preposition + proper noun - and to Seth
• *gam*-*huʾ*: adverb + 3rd masculine singular pronoun - also he
• *yullad*: pual perfect, 3rd masculine singular - was born
• *ben*: noun, masculine singular - son
• *yiqraʾ*: qal imperfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - called
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *shemo*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name
• *ʾEnosh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Enosh
• *ʾaz*: adverb - then/at that time
• *huḥal*: hophal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - it was begun
• *liqroʾ*: qal infinitive construct - to call
• *be-shem*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - by/on the name of
• *YHWH*: divine name

Word Meanings

• *ʾaz huḥal liqroʾ be-shem YHWH*: then began calling on the name of YHWH/then it was begun to invoke the name of YHWH
• *ʾEnosh*: man/mortal/humanity (as meaning of name)

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 Vnto the congregacion of God which is at Corinthum. To them that are sanctified in Christ Iesu sainctes by callynge with all that call on the name of oure LORde Iesus Christ in every place both of theirs and of oures
• Acts 2:21 : 21 And it shalbe that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lorde shalbe saved.
• Gen 12:8 : 8 Then departed he thence vnto a mountayne that lyeth on the east syde of BETHEL and pytched hys tente: BETHEL beynge on the west syde and Ay on the east: And he buylded there an aulter vnto the LORde and called on the name of ye LORde.
• Gen 26:25 : 25 And than he buylded an aulter there and called vpo the name of the LORde and there pitched his tente. And there Isaacs servauntes dygged a well.
• Deut 26:17-18 : 17 Thou hast sett vpp the Lorde this daye to be thy God and to walke in hys wayes and to kepe his ordinaunces, his commaundmentes and his lawes, and to herken vnto his voyce. 18 And the Lord hath sett the vp this daye, to be a seuerall people vnto him (as he hath promysed the) and that thou kepe his commaundmentes,
• Luke 3:38 : 38 which was the sonne of Enos: which was the sonne of Seth: which was the sonne of Adam: which was the sonne of God.
• Acts 11:26 : 26 And when he had founde him he brought him vnto Antioche. And it chaunsed yt a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregacio there and taught moche people: in so moche that the disciples of Antioche were the fyrst that were called Christen.
• Rom 10:13 : 13 For whosoever shall call on the name of the LORde shalbe safe.
• Eph 3:14-15 : 14 For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure LORde Iesus Christ 15 which is father over all that ys called father In heven and in ert