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Genesis 21:5

in Genesis 21

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

KJV

And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

This verse in Genesis 21

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

Abraham gave the name Isaac

on Genesis 21:3-5

God had given the name Isaac at 17:19, before there was a child. It means he laughs. Isaac is circumcised on the eighth day, as God had commanded at 17:12. Abraham was then a hundred, twenty-five years on from the call at 12:4.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאַבְרָהָ֖םand Abraham

    veavrahamH85175 times

  • בֶּן־[was] a son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • מְאַ֣תone hundred

    meatH3967581 times

  • שָׁנָ֑הyear[s]

    shanahH8141877 times

  • בְּהִוָּ֣לֶדwhen was born

    behivaledH3205496 times

  • ל֔וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • אֵ֖ת<obj.>

    ʾetH85310935 times

  • יִצְחָ֥קIsaac

    yitzchakH3327108 times

  • בְּנֽוֹ׃son his

    benoH11214930 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 17:1

    When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

    it leads to

    • Philippians 4:13

      I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

    • Ephesians 3:20

      Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,

    • Luke 1:6

      Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

    • Genesis 18:14

      Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”

    • Genesis 6:9

      This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

  • Through

    Romans 4:19

    Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 11:11–19

      By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.

    • Genesis 17:17

      Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”

    • Romans 4:20–21

      Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.