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The daysיְמֵיof Terahתֶרַחwereוַיִּהְיוּtwo hundredמָאתַיִםandוּfiveחָמֵשׁyears,שָׁנִים שָׁנָהandוַTerahתֶּרַחdiedיָּמָתin Haran.בְּחָרָן
Genesis 11:32
Study it in the app“The days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 11:32, word by word
- The daysיְמֵיyeme
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appears- of Terahתֶרַחterach
Terah
Terah, the father of Abram; also a place in the wilderness.
Where else “terach” appears- wereיִּהְיוּyihyu
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yihyu” appears- two hundredמָאתַיִםmatayim
hundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “matayim” appears- fiveחָמֵשׁchamesh
five
Five.
Where else “chamesh” appears- yearsשָׁנִיםshanim
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shanim” appears- diedיָּמָתyamat
die
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “yamat” appears- in Haranחָרָןcharan
Haran
See it on the mapWhere else “charan” appears
Places in this verse
Haran
Today: Harran, southern Turkey, near Syria
A city in northern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Turkey near the Syrian border.
Abram stopped there with his family and left at seventy-five at God's command (Gen 12:4). Jacob fled there and worked for Laban (Gen 28:10; 29:4).
The context
31Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.
32 · This verse (above)
To study Genesis 11 in a group
1. What it says
What did the people in the land of Shinar say as they built their city and tower (vv. 3-4)?
2. What it means
Why did YHWH confuse their language and scatter them over the whole earth (vv. 6-9)?
3. How I live it
In what you are planning, what is for making a name for yourself, and what is for serving others?