Genesis 6:9

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
generations	תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת tol.Dot	H8435	(plural only) descent · noun, common feminine plural construct
Noah	נֹ֔חַ No.ach	H5146	Noach · proper noun, a man's name
Noah	נֹ֗חַ No.ach	H5146	Noach · proper noun, a man's name
just	צַדִּ֛יק tza.Dik	H6662	just · adjective, masculine singular absolute
man	אִ֥ישׁ 'ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
perfect	תָּמִ֥ים ta.Mim	H8549	entire (literally · adjective, masculine singular absolute
generations	בְּדֹֽרֹתָ֑יו be.do.ro.Tav	H1755	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Noah	נֹֽחַ No.ach	H5146	Noach · proper noun, a man's name
walked	הִֽתְהַלֶּךְ hit.ha.lekh-	H1980	to walk (in a great variety of applications · verb, hithpael perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
God	הָֽאֱלֹהִ֖ים ha.'E.lo.Him	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he c…
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ung…
Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be t…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:8-10

We have here Noah distinguished from the rest of the world, and a peculiar mark of honour put upon him. 1. When God was displeased with the rest of the world, he favoured Noah: But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, Gen 6:8. This vindicates God's justice in his displeasure against the world, and shows that he had strictly examined the character of every person in it before he pronounced it universally corrupt; for, there being one good man, he found him out, and smiled upon him. It also magnifies his grace towards Noah that he was made a vessel of God's mercy when all mankind besides had become the generation of his wrath: distinguishing favours bring under peculiarly strong obligatio…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 6:9

Noah . . . just . . . and perfect--not absolutely; for since the fall of Adam no man has been free from sin except Jesus Christ. But as living by faith he was just (Gal 3:2; Heb 11:7) and perfect--that is, sincere in his desire to do God's will.

Adam Clarke on Genesis 6:8

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord - Why? Because he was, 1. A just man, איש צדיק ish tsaddik, a man who gave to all their due; for this is the ideal meaning of the original word. 2. He was perfect in his generation - he was in all things a consistent character, never departing from the truth in principle or practice. 3. He walked with God - he was not only righteous in his conduct, but he was pious, and had continual communion with God. The same word is used here as before in the case of Enoch. See Gen 5:22.

John Gill on Genesis 6:9

These are the generations of Noah,.... Or this is the account of his posterity, of the persons that were generated by him, that sprung from him, and peopled the earth after the flood, who are mentioned in the next verse, what follows being to be put in a parenthesis; as the genealogy of Adam is carried on from Adam to Noah, Genesis 5:1 so the old world ending at the flood, the genealogy of the new world begins with Noah: though Aben Ezra and Ben Gersome interpret the word "events", things which days bring forth, Proverbs 27:1 these are the events or the things which befell Noah, of which an account is given in this and some following chapters, whose character is next observed: Noah was a ju…

The Church Fathers

Noah was found faithful by reason of his service; he proclaimed a new birth to the world, and through him the Lord saved the living creatures who entered in harmony into the ark.
— Clement of Rome, THE LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 9.2-4

Let us steadfastly contemplate those who have perfectly ministered to his excellent glory... Noah, being found faithful, preached regeneration to the world through his ministry; and the Lord saved by him the animals which, with one accord, entered into the ark.
— Clement of Rome, Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 9

Speaking of Noah, our unerring Scriptures tell us that he "was a just and perfect man in his generation," meaning that he was perfect as far as citizens of the city of God can be perfect during the pilgrimage of this present life, not, of course, as perfect as they are to be in that immortal life in which they will be as perfect as the angels of God.
— Augustine of Hippo, City of God 15.26

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Cainan — Possession; smith. (1.) The fourth antediluvian patriarch, the eldest son of Enos. He was 70 years old at the birth of his eldest son Mahalaleel, after which he lived 840 years (Gen. 5:9-14), and was…
Enoch — Initiated. (1.) The eldest son of Cain (Gen. 4:17), who built a city east of Eden in the land of Nod, and called it “after the name of his son Enoch.” This is the first “city” mentioned in Scripture.…
Generation — Gen. 2:4, “These are the generations,” means the “history.” 5:1, “The book of the generations,” means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, “The generations of Jacob” = the history of Jacob…
Noah — Rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah (Gen. 5:25-29), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam’s…
Character · .Just — .Just
Character Of Saints · Just — Just
Communion · .Noah — .Noah
Communion With God · Exemplified: Noah — Exemplified: Noah
Fellowship · WITH GOD — WITH GOD
Perfection · Ascribed to .Noah — Ascribed to .Noah
Walking · .Noah — .Noah

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Genesis 6:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:8-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 6:9

Adam Clarke on Genesis 6:8

John Gill on Genesis 6:9

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Genesis 6:9

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:8-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 6:9

Adam Clarke on Genesis 6:8

John Gill on Genesis 6:9

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Genesis 6:9-10

Keil & Delitzsch on Genesis 6:9–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 6:9

Rashi on Genesis 6:9