Genesis 5:5 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּֽהְי֞וּ	vai.yih.Yu	and they were	H1961 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יְמֵ֤י	ye.Mei	[the] days of	H3117 →
אָדָם֙	'a.Dam	Adam	H121 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
חַ֔י	Chai	he lived	H2421 →
תְּשַׁ֤ע	te.Sha'	nine	H8672 →
מֵאוֹת֙	me.'Ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
שָׁנָ֔ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים	u.she.lo.Shim	and thirty	H7970 →
שָׁנָ֑ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
וַיָּמֹֽת׃ ס	vai.ya.Mot	and he died	H4191 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
leads to
- Job 34:15
  all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
  before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Psalms 104:29
  When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Genesis 2:7
  Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Psalms 90:3
  You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
Through
2 Samuel 14:14
For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one…
leads to
- Job 30:23
  Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Numbers 35:28
  because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
- Hebrews 9:27
  Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 5:11So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.Genesis 5:8So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”1 Corinthians 15:21–22For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,Psalms 49:7–10No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.Psalms 89:48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.Romans 5:12–14Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.Psalms 90:10The 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.Ecclesiastes 12:5when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.Ezekiel 18:4Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.Ecclesiastes 9:8Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.Deuteronomy 30:20and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”Genesis 5:14–32So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

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