Notice:
Name, In Hebrew, Meaning
Adam
אָדָם
ruddy, man, person, or mankind
Seth
שֵׁת
Substituted or appointed – Gen 4:25; put; who puts; fixed
Enos
אֱנוֹשׁ
mortal, sickly, despaired of; forgetful
Cainan
קֵינָן
to chant a dirge; lament – Amos 8:10; Ezekiel 27:32; 1 Samuel 1:17
Mahalaleel
מַהֲלַלְאֵל
From מַ, praise הֲלַלְ, God אֵל – literally “From Praise God” or “Praising God”
Jared
יָרֶד
a ruling; commanding; coming down
Enoch
חֲנוֹךְ
teaching
Methuselah
מְתוּשָׁלַח
dwelling-places; afflicted; his death will bring
Lamech
לָמֶךְ
poor; made low; good for nothing
Noah
נֹחַ
repose; consolation; rest
Man, appointed mortal [and] sorrow[ful]. From praise God coming down teaching. His death will bring [the] poor consolation.
I present some thoughts on the sentence. Because Adam sinned, and because we all come from him, we die – made mortal (1). Because we sinned, we are to have our days full of sorrow (2). Indeed! Praise God, He (Jesus) came down (3) and taught (4) us that by His death on the cross He will give us Peace (5)!
(1) Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
(2) Genesis 3:17 “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;” Genesis 3:19 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
(3) John 6:33 “For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.” John 6:48 “I am that bread of life.”
(4) John 12:49 “For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.”
(5) Colossians 1:20 “And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” Luke 4:18-21 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
You could even cut and paste the Hebrew and put it into Google’s translation and see that the meanings are still close even with the differences between modern and ancient Hebrew. You’ll have to separate Mahalale-el to get proper translation. Cainan is lost as noted and Seth has a different meaning today.
This is what we call the "Plan of Salvation" right there in the names of Genesis 5! So cool!
Name, In Hebrew, Meaning
Adam
אָדָם
ruddy, man, person, or mankind
Seth
שֵׁת
Substituted or appointed – Gen 4:25; put; who puts; fixed
Enos
אֱנוֹשׁ
mortal, sickly, despaired of; forgetful
Cainan
קֵינָן
to chant a dirge; lament – Amos 8:10; Ezekiel 27:32; 1 Samuel 1:17
Mahalaleel
מַהֲלַלְאֵל
From מַ, praise הֲלַלְ, God אֵל – literally “From Praise God” or “Praising God”
Jared
יָרֶד
a ruling; commanding; coming down
Enoch
חֲנוֹךְ
teaching
Methuselah
מְתוּשָׁלַח
dwelling-places; afflicted; his death will bring
Lamech
לָמֶךְ
poor; made low; good for nothing
Noah
נֹחַ
repose; consolation; rest
Man, appointed mortal [and] sorrow[ful]. From praise God coming down teaching. His death will bring [the] poor consolation.
I present some thoughts on the sentence. Because Adam sinned, and because we all come from him, we die – made mortal (1). Because we sinned, we are to have our days full of sorrow (2). Indeed! Praise God, He (Jesus) came down (3) and taught (4) us that by His death on the cross He will give us Peace (5)!
(1) Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
(2) Genesis 3:17 “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;” Genesis 3:19 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
(3) John 6:33 “For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.” John 6:48 “I am that bread of life.”
(4) John 12:49 “For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.”
(5) Colossians 1:20 “And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” Luke 4:18-21 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
You could even cut and paste the Hebrew and put it into Google’s translation and see that the meanings are still close even with the differences between modern and ancient Hebrew. You’ll have to separate Mahalale-el to get proper translation. Cainan is lost as noted and Seth has a different meaning today.
This is what we call the "Plan of Salvation" right there in the names of Genesis 5! So cool!
