What Does Genesis 5:6 Mean?
And Seth lived one hundred and five years, and brought forth Enosh.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:THE KEY
The name at the end of this generation means mortal human, holding human continuity and fragility in the same line.
THE MEANING
Your life is both received and generative: what reaches you can continue through you. Yet the name Enos carries the human condition as mortal, so continuity does not erase vulnerability.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a continuing family line makes human life permanent dissolves here: life passes onward, while each generation remains mortal.
THE ROOT
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʾĔnōsh
GROWS FROM
אָנַשׁ
To be weak, frail, or sick; the root carries the sense of human vulnerability.
“Enos” in this verse is ʾĔnōsh. The name beside this birth carries the root’s sense of frailty into the Hebrew word for a mortal human being. The verse holds a living line and its vulnerability together: generation continues, but does not become permanence.
ALSO GROWS
ʾĕnōsh: A mortal human being; humankind.
אֱנוֹשׁ
This is the word embodied in Enos’s name, making mortality part of the verse’s family line.
ʾānūsh: Incurably sick or critically ill.
אֱנוּשׁ
This related form makes the root’s language of frailty explicit, showing the vulnerability that the name Enosh carries.
THE PATTERN
Human life continues through generations, while each generation remains mortal.
As for humankind, his days are like grass; like the blossom of the field, so he blooms.Man, born of a woman, is short of days and full of trembling.For all flesh is as grass, and all its weight is as the blossom of grass. The grass dries, and the blossom falls.THE THREAD
As for humankind, his days are like grass; like the blossom of the field, so he blooms.The Hebrew word translated “man” is אֱנוֹשׁ (ʾĕnōsh), meaning a mortal human being, the same word carried in Enos’s name. Genesis places that word in a family line; the psalm reveals the vulnerability within it by likening human days to grass.
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