Genesis 25:7
in Genesis 25Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years.
KJV
And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
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This verse in Genesis 25
Commentary
9 notes on this verseThe days of the years, etc. - There is a beauty in this expression which is not sufficiently regarded. Good men do not live by centuries, though many such have lived several hundred years, nor do they count their lives even by years, but by days, living as if they were the creatures only of A Day; having no more time than they can with any propriety call their own, and living that day in reference to eternity.
This site's exposition
Abraham lived a total of 175 years
on Genesis 25:7-8
He lives 175 years, a hundred years after he left Haran at seventy-five. God had told him at 15:15 that he would go to his fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. The wording of that promise comes back here. He is gathered to his people before the text says one word about a grave.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Isaac, the son of the promise, was born in Abraham's hundredth [year], because the blessing of the inheritance that is promised to all the families of the earth through his seed will doubtless be conferred in the heavenly homeland that is to come.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
And these are the days of Abraham -- he lived one hundred and seventy-five years; just a hundred years after he came to Canaan; so long he was a sojourner in a strange country.
And these are the days of Abraham -- he lived one hundred and seventy-five years; just a hundred years after he came to Canaan; so long he was a sojourner in a strange country.
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life, which he lived,....
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life, which he lived,....
2 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
He died in a good old age, an old man; so God had promised him. His death was his discharge from the burdens of his age: an old man would not so live always. It was also the crown of the glory of his old age.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
these are the days of . . . Abraham--His death is here related, though he lived till Jacob and Esau were fifteen years, just one hundred years after coming to Canaan; "the father of the faithful," "the friend of God" [Jas 2:23], died; and even in his death, the promises were fulfilled (compare Ge 15:15).
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The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵ֗לֶּה | veeleh | and these | H428 → | 746 times |
| יְמֵ֛י | yemei | [are] [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| שְׁנֵֽי־ | shenei- | [the] years of | H8141 → | 877 times |
| חַיֵּ֥י | chaiyei | [the] life of | H2416 → | 498 times |
| אַבְרָהָ֖ם | ʾavraham | Abraham | H85 → | 175 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| חָ֑י | chai | he lived | H2421 → | 282 times |
| מְאַ֥ת | meat | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שָׁנָ֛ה | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
| וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים | veshivim | and seventy | H7657 → | 91 times |
| שָׁנָ֖ה | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
| וְחָמֵ֥שׁ | vechamesh | and five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| שָׁנִֽים׃ | shanim | years | H8141 → | 877 times |
וְאֵ֗לֶּהand these
veelehH428 →746 times
יְמֵ֛י[are] [the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
שְׁנֵֽי־[the] years of
shenei-H8141 →877 times
חַיֵּ֥י[the] life of
chaiyeiH2416 →498 times
אַבְרָהָ֖םAbraham
ʾavrahamH85 →175 times
אֲשֶׁר־which
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
חָ֑יhe lived
chaiH2421 →282 times
מְאַ֥תone hundred
meatH3967 →581 times
שָׁנָ֛הyear[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
וְשִׁבְעִ֥יםand seventy
veshivimH7657 →91 times
שָׁנָ֖הyear[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
וְחָמֵ֥שׁand five
vechameshH2568 →343 times
שָׁנִֽים׃years
shanimH8141 →877 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 stopsEach 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 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
it leads to
- Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan.…
- Genesis 11:27
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
- Hebrews 11:8
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, On the Tabernacle 2.13.85; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.