1. ספר s^epher – “writing, a writing, a book.”
2. קינן qēynān – Kenan, “po e or, or spearsman.”
3. מהללאל mah^el…

Noah was five hundred years old. —No reason is given why Noah had no son until he had reached such an advanced age; nor, in fact, …

And Noah was five hundred years old. Concerning the fathers whom Moses has previously listed, it is not easy to surmise whether each of th…

And Noah was five hundred years old
Or "the son of five hundred years" ^F6 ; he was in his five hundredth …

Methuselah signifies, “he dies, there is a dart,” or “a sending forth,” namely, of the deluge, which came the year that Methuselah died. He lived 9…