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Now the daysוַ יְמֵיof Isaacיִצְחָקwereיִּהְיוּa hundredמְאַתand eightyוּשְׁמֹנִיםyears.שָׁנָה שָׁנָה
Genesis 35:28
Study it in the app“Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 35:28, word by word
- Now the daysיְמֵיyeme
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yeme” appears- of Isaacיִצְחָקyitschak
Isaac
Isaac, the son promised to Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob. His name means "he laughs" (Genesis 17:17, 19; 21:6).
Where else “yitschak” appears- wereיִּהְיוּyihyu
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yihyu” appears- a hundredמְאַתmeat
hundred
The amount of one hundred; with other numbers it forms two hundred, three hundred and the rest.
Where else “meat” appears- and eightyשְׁמֹנִיםshemonim
eighty
Eighty.
Where else “shemonim” appears- yearsשָׁנָהshana
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shana” appears
The context
27Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens.
28 · This verse (above)
29Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
To study Genesis 35 in a group
1. What it says
What did Elohim tell Jacob to do at Bethel, and what did his household leave behind (vv. 1-4)?
2. What it means
What does it show about Jacob that he asks his household to put away the foreign gods (vv. 2-3)?
3. How I live it
What gets in the way of your trust in Elohim, and could you leave it behind?