Genesis 5:22

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּתְהַלֵּ֨ךְ חֲנ֜וֹךְ אֶת־הֽ͏ָאֱלֹהִ֗ים אֽ͏ַחֲרֵי֙ הוֹלִיד֣וֹ אֶת־מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֥וֹלֶד בָּנִ֖ים וּבָנֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

wayyithallēk ḥănôk ʾet-hāʾĕlōhîm ʾaḥărê hôlîdô ʾet-mətûšelaḥ šəlōš mēʾôt šānāh wayyôled bānîm ûbānôt

Grammar Details

• *wayyithallēk*: conjunction *wə-* + 3rd masculine singular hithpael imperfect consecutive of *hālak* - and he walked/followed
• *ḥănôk*: proper noun - Enoch
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *hāʾĕlōhîm*: definite article *hā-* + masculine plural noun - the God
• *ʾaḥărê*: preposition - after
• *hôlîdô*: hiphil infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his begetting
• *mətûšelaḥ*: proper noun - Methuselah
• *šəlōš*: cardinal number - three
• *mēʾôt*: feminine plural of *mēʾāh* - hundreds
• *šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year
• *wayyôled*: conjunction *wə-* + 3rd masculine singular hiphil imperfect consecutive - and he begat
• *bānîm*: masculine plural of *bēn* - sons
• *ûbānôt*: conjunction *wə-* + feminine plural of *bat* - and daughters

Word Meanings

• *wayyithallēk*: walked with/followed/conducted himself with
• *ʾet*-*hāʾĕlōhîm*: with God/in God's presence/before God
• *ḥănôk*: Enoch (proper name, meaning possibly 'dedicated')
• *ʾaḥărê*: after/following/subsequent to
• *hôlîdô*: his begetting/his fathering
• *mətûšelaḥ*: Methuselah (proper name, meaning possibly 'man of the dart')
• *wayyôled*: begat/fathered/brought forth
• *bānîm*: sons/male children/descendants
• *bānôt*: daughters/female children/female descendants

Referenced Verses

• Gen 6:9 : 9 These `are' births of Noah: Noah `is' a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.
• Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
• Mal 2:6 : 6 The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity.
• 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
• Gen 17:1 : 1 And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I `am' God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;
• Gen 48:15 : 15 And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, `God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day:
• Ps 116:9 : 9 I walk habitually before Jehovah In the lands of the living.
• Lev 26:12 : 12 and I have walked habitually in your midst, and have become your God, and ye -- ye are become My people;
• Gen 24:40 : 40 and he saith unto me, Jehovah, before whom I have walked habitually, doth send His messenger with thee, and hath prospered thy way, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father;
• Heb 11:5-6 : 5 By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well, 6 and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
• Gen 5:24 : 24 And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him.
• Acts 9:31 : 31 Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.
• Rom 8:1 : 1 There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;
• 1 Cor 7:17 : 17 if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
• Eph 5:15 : 15 See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
• Col 1:10 : 10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
• Col 4:5 : 5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;
• Exod 16:4 : 4 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, I am raining to you bread from the heavens -- and the people have gone out and gathered the matter of a day in its day -- so that I try them whether they walk in My law, or not;
• Ps 128:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.
• Song 1:4 : 4 Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!
• Hos 14:9 : 9 Who `is' wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!
• Amos 3:3 : 3 Do two walk together if they have not met?
• Mic 4:5 : 5 For all the peoples do walk, Each in the name of its god -- and we, We do walk in the name of Jehovah our God, To the age and for ever.
• Deut 5:33 : 33 in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and `it is' well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.
• Deut 13:4 : 4 after Jehovah your God ye walk, and Him ye fear, and His commands ye keep, and to His voice ye hearken, and Him ye serve, and to Him ye cleave.
• Deut 28:9 : 9 `Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways;
• 1 Kgs 2:4 : 4 so that Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake unto me, saying, If thy sons observe their way to walk before Me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul; saying, There is not cut off a man of thine from the throne of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which `is' good in Thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.
• Ps 16:8 : 8 I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because -- at my right hand I am not moved.
• Ps 26:11 : 11 And I, in mine integrity I walk, Redeem me, and favour me.
• Ps 56:13 : 13 For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!
• Ps 86:11 : 11 Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.