What Does Genesis 9:29 Mean in the King James?
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The text counts nine hundred and fifty years, yet its final words show that even an immense life has an edge.
THE MEANING
Your years do not become endless through their length: even Noah’s nine hundred and fifty years reach death. The verse lets the full span stand, then names its ending plainly: “and he died.”
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that exceptional longevity exempts someone from mortality: Noah’s 950 years still end in death.
THE ROOT
וַיָּמֹת
wayyāmōṯ
GROWS FROM
מות
m-w-t
to die
“died” in this verse is wayyāmōṯ. The verb comes from the same root family as the Hebrew words for “death” and “dead.” English separates the event from the state, while the Hebrew forms keep them connected: Noah’s ending belongs to the same reality named by death itself.
ALSO GROWS
māweṯ: death
מָוֶת
This noun shares the root of “he died,” joining Noah’s final act to death as a named reality.
mēṯ: dead; a dead person
מֵת
This form names the state or person resulting from the verb: the same root holds both dying and being dead.
THE PATTERN
A counted human life still reaches death, however long its span.
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:THE THREAD
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.Adam’s verse uses the same Hebrew root for “died” as Noah’s. The repeated wording links their counted years to one shared human ending, even though Noah’s span is longer.
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