Genesis 35:28
in Genesis 35And Isaac lived 180 years.
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ASV
And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.
KJV
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
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This verse in Genesis 35
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. He lived, forty years after he had made his will, and blessed his two sons. Jacob was now one hundred and twenty years of age, being born when his father was sixty; and Joseph was now twenty nine years of age, so that Isaac lived twelve years after the selling of Joseph into Egypt; he was five years older than his father Abraham was when he died.
This site's exposition
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre
on Genesis 35:27-29
Jacob reaches his father at Mamre near Hebron, and Genesis records nothing of the meeting, though the last words between these two were a stolen blessing and a brother's threat to kill. Isaac lives 180 years, and Esau and Jacob bury him together. Gill works out that Isaac was alive twelve years after Joseph was sold, so the death is reported here to close the account.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The age and death of Isaac are here recorded, though it appears by computation that he died not 'till many years after Joseph was sold into Egypt, and much about the time that he was preferred there.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּֽהְי֖וּ | vaiyihyu | and they were | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| יְמֵ֣י | yemei | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| יִצְחָ֑ק | yitzchak | Isaac | H3327 → | 108 times |
| מְאַ֥ת | meat | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שָׁנָ֖ה | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
| וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים | ushemonim | and eighty | H8084 → | 38 times |
| שָׁנָֽה׃ | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
וַיִּֽהְי֖וּand they were
vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times
יְמֵ֣י[the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
יִצְחָ֑קIsaac
yitzchakH3327 →108 times
מְאַ֥תone hundred
meatH3967 →581 times
שָׁנָ֖הyear[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
וּשְׁמֹנִ֥יםand eighty
ushemonimH8084 →38 times
שָׁנָֽה׃year[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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 25:7Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
it leads to
- Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- Genesis 12:4
Through
Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
it leads to
- Psalms 90:10
The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Psalms 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
- Genesis 37:2
This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father…
- Genesis 47:8–9
“How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.
- Psalms 119:84
How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?
- Psalms 90:10
Through
Genesis 50:26So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
it leads to
- Genesis 47:9
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- Genesis 50:22
Now Joseph and his father’s household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.
- Genesis 47:9
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.