The Meaning of Genesis 23:1 Explained

Genesis 23:1

KJV: And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

YLT: And the life of Sarah is a hundred and twenty and seven years -- years of the life of Sarah;

Darby: And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

ASV: And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Genesis 23:1?

MEANING: What does Genesis 23:1 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Genesis 23:1 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Genesis 23:1?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And Sarah  was an hundred  and seven  and twenty  years  old:  [these were] the years  of the life  of Sarah. 

What does Genesis 23:1 Mean?

Context Summary

Genesis 23:1-20 - Abraham Buys A Burial Place
Death is an ever-constant monitor that this world is not our home. We rise up from before our dead to confess that we are only strangers and sojourners on the earth. Though the whole country, by God's deed and gift, belonged to Abraham, it had not as yet been made over; hence the necessity for this deliberate purchase with all the stately formalities of the leisured East. Abraham's insistence on buying this grave, and the care with which the negotiations were pursued, show that he realized that his descendants would come again into that land and possess it. It was as though he felt that he and Sarah should lie there awaiting the return of their children and children's children. See also Genesis 49:29-30. So the graves of the martyrs and of missionaries who have fallen at the post of duty are the silent outposts that hold those lands for Christ, as the graves of the saints await the Second Advent. [source]

Chapter Summary: Genesis 23

1  The age and death of Sarah
3  The purchase of the field and cave of Machpelah;
19  where Sarah is buried

What do the individual words in Genesis 23:1 mean?

And was old Sarah a hundred years and twenty and seven years the years of the life of Sarah
וַיִּהְיוּ֙ חַיֵּ֣י שָׂרָ֔ה מֵאָ֥ה שָׁנָ֛ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְשֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֑ים שְׁנֵ֖י חַיֵּ֥י שָׂרָֽה

וַיִּהְיוּ֙  And  was 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
חַיֵּ֣י  old 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: חַי 
Sense: living, alive.
שָׂרָ֔ה  Sarah 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׂרָה  
Sense: wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
מֵאָ֥ה  a  hundred 
Parse: Number, feminine singular
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.
שָׁנָ֛ה  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים  and  twenty 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, common plural
Root: עֶשְׂרִים  
Sense: twenty, twentieth.
וְשֶׁ֣בַע  and  seven 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Number, feminine singular
Root: שֶׁבַע  
Sense: seven (cardinal number).
שָׁנִ֑ים  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
שְׁנֵ֖י  the  years 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
חַיֵּ֥י  of  the  life 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: חַי 
Sense: living, alive.
שָׂרָֽה  of  Sarah 
Parse: Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׂרָה  
Sense: wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.

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