Genesis 11:11

Genesis 11:11

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

a. NLT: After the birth of  Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

b. NIV: And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

c. YLT: And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

d. Amplified Bible Classic: And Shem lived after Arpachshad was born 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

e. Septuagint: And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.

f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: And Shem lived 500 years after begetting Arpachshad, and begot sons and daughters.

1. “And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years…”

a. [And] Shem [Strong: 8035 Shem shame the same as 8034; name; Shem, a son of Noah (often includ. his posterity):--Sem, Shem.]

b. lived [Strong: 2421 chayah khaw-yaw' a primitive root (Compare 2331, 2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive:--keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.]

c. after [Strong: 310 'achar akh-ar' from 309; properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses):--after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.]

d. he begat [Strong: 3205 yalad yaw-lad' a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage:--bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).]

e. Arphaxad [Strong: 775 'Arpakshad ar-pak-shad' probably of foreign origin; Arpakshad, a son of Noah; also the region settled by him:--Arphaxad.]

f. five [Strong: 2568 chamesh khaw-maysh' masculine chamishshah {kham-ish-shaw}; a primitive numeral; five:--fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).]

g. hundred [Strong: 3967 me'ah may-aw' or metyah {may-yaw'}; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction:--hundred ((-fold), -th), + sixscore.]

h. years 8141 shaneh shaw-neh'; (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}; from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time):--+ whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).]

1). Shem was 98 years old after the flood. His first son was born two years after the flood. He lived a total of 600 years, 502 of them after the flood, Genesis 11:10, 11. With Shem living 502 years after the flood, this puts his death well after the tower of Babel and well into the time of Abraham and the implications are rather astounding. He seems to fall off the Biblical landscape and yet he lived 500 more years after the flood. Shem was 450 years old when Abram was born and he was 550 years old when Isaac was born, living another 50 years. Abraham was 150 years old when Shem died. While his death is reported here, Shem actually lived past Genesis 24 and into Genesis 25. How long is unclear because there are no chronological markers of when Abraham married Keturah in Genesis 25. We only know that he died 25 years before Abraham and ten years before Jacob and Esau were born. Yes Abraham was contemporary with Jacob and Esau for 15 years.  

2. “…and begat sons and daughters.”

a. and begat [Strong: 3205 yalad yaw-lad' a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage:--bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).]

b. sons [Strong: 1121 ben bane from 1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.)):--+ afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.]

c. [and] daughters [Strong: 1323 bath bath from 1129 (as feminine of 1121); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively):--apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.]