The Hebrew Meanings of the 10 Generations
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When we assemble the meanings of the names together in birth order, we find a message unfolding
before us... just as it must have for those who witnessed the generations so long ago:

MANKIND / IS APPOINTED TO / A FEEBLE, FRAIL, MORTALITY / IN A FIXED DWELLING PLACE.
/ GOD WHO IS PRAISED / COMES DOWN / TO INSTRUCT / AS A MAN SENT FORTH / TO BE
BEATEN, SMITTEN AND TORTURED / BRINGING REST, A QUIET PEACE.

ADAM = MANKIND  
    OT:120 'adam (aw-dawm'); from OT:119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species,
    mankind, etc.):

SETH = APPOINTED TO
    OT:7896 shiyth (sheeth); a primitive root; to place (in a very wide application):KJV appoint

ENOS = FEEBLE, FRAIL, MORTALITY (#582 FROM #605)
    OT:582 'enowsh (en-oshe'); from OT:605; properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more
    dignified OT:120);
    OT:605 'anash (aw-nash'); a primitive root; to be frail, feeble

CAINAN = A FIXED DWELLING PLACE
    OT:7064 qen (kane); contracted from OT:7077; a nest (as fixed)

MAHALALEEL = GOD WHO IS PRAISED
    OT:4111 Mahalal'el (mah-hal-al-ale'); from OT:4110 and OT:410; praise of God

JARED = COMES DOWN, DESCEND
    OT:3382 Yered (yeh'-red); from OT:3381; a descent;

ENOCH = TO INSTRUCT, TRAIN UP
    OT:2596 chanak (khaw-nak'); a primitive root; properly, to narrow, figuratively, to initiate or
    discipline: KJV - dedicate, train up.

METHUSELAH = A MAN SENT FORTH (#4968 FROM #4962, #7973)
    OT:4968 Methuwshelach (meth-oo-sheh'-lakh); from OT:4962 and OT:7973; man of a dart;
    OT:7973 shelach (sheh'-lakh); from OT:7971; a missile of attack,

LAMECH = TO BE BEATEN, SMITTEN, AND TORTURED
    OT:3929 Lemek (leh'-mek); from #4347
    OT:4347 makkah,  a blow, by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also beaten,
    slaughter, smote, X sore, stripe, stroke, wound((-ed)).

NOAH = TO BRING REST, A QUIET PEACE
    OT:5146 Noach (no'-akh); the same as OT:5118; rest
    OT:5118 nuwach (noo'-akh); or nowach (no'-akh); from OT:5117; quiet:  

(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew
Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
Mentioned in Genesis 5                       printer friendly version
Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainain, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah
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