Genesis 5:27
Strong's Lexicon
So Methuselah
מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח (mə·ṯū·še·laḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4968: Methuselah = 'man of the dart' 1) son of Enoch, 6th in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech

lived
וַיִּהְיוּ֙ (way·yih·yū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

a total of
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything

יְמֵ֣י (yə·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

969
תֵּ֤שַׁע (tê·ša‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8672: 1) nine, nonad 1a) nine (as cardinal number) 1b) ninth (as ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers

מֵא֖וֹת (mê·’ō·wṯ)
Number - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3967: 1) hundred 1a) as simple number 1b) as part of larger number 1c) as a fraction-one one-hundredth (1/100)

שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8141: 1) year 1a) as division of time 1b) as measure of time 1c) as indication of age 1d) a lifetime (of years of life)

וְשִׁשִּׁים֙ (wə·šiš·šîm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8346: 1) sixty, three score

וּתְשַׁ֥ע (ū·ṯə·ša‘)
Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8672: 1) nine, nonad 1a) nine (as cardinal number) 1b) ninth (as ordinal number) 1c) in combination with other numbers

years,
שָׁנָ֑ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8141: 1) year 1a) as division of time 1b) as measure of time 1c) as indication of age 1d) a lifetime (of years of life)

and then he died.
וַיָּמֹֽת׃ (way·yā·mōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4191: 1) to die, kill, have one executed 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to die 1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death 1a3) to die, perish (of a nation) 1a4) to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct) 1b) (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch 1c) (Hiphil) to kill, put to death 1d) (Hophal) 1d1) to be killed, be put to death 1d1a) to die prematurely

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Methuselah’s life lasted 969 years; then he died.

New American Standard Bible
So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

King James Bible
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

New Living Translation
Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.

English Standard Version
Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

New American Standard Bible
So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

King James Bible
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Methuselah's life lasted 969 years; then he died.

International Standard Version
Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then died.

NET Bible
The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.

American Standard Version
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

English Revised Version
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.
















Cross References
Genesis 5:26
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:28
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 5:25
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

Genesis 5:30
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
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