Passage Research
Genesis 5 — Sermon Preparation
A genealogy traces ten generations from Adam to Noah, listing each patriarch's age and descendants. Below is a research summary for Genesis 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 32
- verses
- 365 / 66
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 12
- classic sermon excerpts
- 7
- preachers & commentators
Genesis 5 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁנֶה | shâneh | H8141 | 48 | year, revolution |
| יָלַד | yâlad | H3205 | 28 | bear young, beget |
| מֵאָה | mêʼâh | H3967 | 24 | hundred |
| חָיָה | châyâh | H2421 | 16 | live, revive |
| חָמֵשׁ | châmêsh | H2568 | 10 | five |
| תֵּשַׁע | têshaʻ | H8672 | 7 | nine, ninth |
| חֲנוֹךְ | Chănôwk | H2585 | 6 | Chanok |
How preachers through history handled this text
12 public-domain excerpts on Genesis 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Concerning each of these, except Enoch, it is said, "and he died." It is well to observe the deaths of others. They all lived very long; not one of them died till he had seen almost eight hundred years, and some of them lived much longer; a great while for an immortal soul to be prisoned in a house of clay. The present life surely was not to them such a burden as it commonly is now, else they would have been weary of it. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Genesis 5:6–20 (Public Domain)
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