And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

GENESIS 5:11KJV
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Genesis 5:11 (KJV)

What does Genesis 5:11 mean?

Genesis 5:11 closes the account of Enos by giving the full length of his life. In the King James Version, Enos lived 905 years, and his death marks the end of his place in the family record.

The storyteller uses the phrase “all the days” to count a whole lifetime, though the total is given in years. Following the mention of Enos’s sons and daughters in verse 10, the sentence brings his account to a close.

Why Genesis 5:11 matters

  • The number is Enos’s total age, not the length of time after his son was born. Genesis 5:9–10 divides his life into the years before and after the birth of Cainan; verse 11 gives the total.
  • Enos is one link in a family line traced from Adam. His father, Seth, appears before him in Genesis 5:6–8, and his son Cainan follows in verse 12.
  • The words “and he died” follow the pattern used for Adam and Seth earlier in the passage. The repeated ending marks the close of each person’s account.

Where else these words appear

“Enos” Hebrew H583 · used in 7 verses

  • Genesis 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
  • Genesis 5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
  • Genesis 5:10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

“nine” Hebrew H8672 · used in 57 verses

  • Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
  • Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
  • 2 Kings 25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: