Genesis 5:23
in Genesis 5So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.
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and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
KJV
And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
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This verse in Genesis 5
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. A year of years, living as many years as there are days in a year; not half the age of the rest of the patriarchs: our poet (t) calls him one of middle age; though his being taken away in the midst of his days was not a token of divine displeasure, but of favour, as follows; see Psa 55:23. (t) Milton's Paradise Lost, B. 11. l. 665.
This site's exposition
When Enoch was 65 years old
on Genesis 5:21-24
The pattern breaks once. Enoch walked with God is said twice, at verse 22 and again at verse 24, and Genesis 41:32 says a doubled word is established by God. He was no more, and God had taken him away. Hebrews 11:5 says he was taken so that he never died.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1307: “Enoch” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1876)
on Genesis 5:21-24
THE three passages of Scripture which I have read are all the authentic information we have concerning Enoch. It would be idle to supplement it with the fictions of ancient commentators. Enoch is called the seventh from Adam, to distinguish him from the other Enoch of the line of Cain, who was the third from Adam. In the first Patriarchs God was pleased to manifest to men portions of His Truth in reference to true religion.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
ENOCH. Son of Jared. Scripture says about Enoch, And Enoch walked with God.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
That is, he died. So, too, take, I beseech Thee, my life from me (Jonah:3).
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְהִ֖י | vayhi | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| יְמֵ֣י | yemei | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| חֲנ֑וֹךְ | chanokh | Enoch | H2585 → | 16 times |
| חָמֵ֤שׁ | chamesh | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ | veshishim | and sixty | H8346 → | 59 times |
| שָׁנָ֔ה | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
| וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁ | ushelosh | and three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שָׁנָֽה׃ | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
וַיְהִ֖יand it was
vayhiH1961 →3559 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
יְמֵ֣י[the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
חֲנ֑וֹךְEnoch
chanokhH2585 →16 times
חָמֵ֤שׁfive
chameshH2568 →343 times
וְשִׁשִּׁים֙and sixty
veshishimH8346 →59 times
שָׁנָ֔הyear[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
וּשְׁלֹ֥שׁand three
usheloshH7969 →432 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
שָׁנָֽה׃year[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1307: Enoch; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1307: “Enoch” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.