Genesis 9:28

וַֽיְחִי־נֹחַ אַחַר הַמַּבּוּל שְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַֽחֲמִשִּׁים שָׁנָֽה׃

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Hebrew

וַֽיְחִי־נֹ֖חַ אַחַ֣ר הַמַּבּ֑וּל שְׁלֹ֤שׁ מֵאוֹת֙ שָׁנָ֔ה וַֽחֲמִשִּׁ֖ים שָׁנָֽה׃

Greek (Septuagint)

Ἔζησεν δὲ Νῶε μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν τριακόσια ἔτη.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Vixit autem Noë post diluvium trecentis quinquaginta annis.

Spanish

Después del diluvio, Noé vivió trescientos cincuenta años más.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y vivió Noé después del diluvio trescientos y cincuenta años.

English

After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

✦ What the text says

Summary

The verse states that Noah lived (yechi, H2421) for a specific span of time after the flood (ha-mabbul, H3999): three hundred years and fifty years, totaling 350 years.

Key words

yechi ("he lived", H2421) — qal verb in narrative form, continuing the sequential storyline ("and then he lived").
Noach ("Noah", H5146) — proper name, subject of the verb.
achar ("after", H0310A) — construct form meaning "after [something]", linking to ha-mabbul.
ha-mabbul ("the flood", H3999) — definite noun, the reference point for the time span.
shelosh me'ot ("three hundred", H7969 + H3967) — construct numeral phrase, "three of hundreds", combined with shanah ("year", H8141) to form "three hundred years".
va-chamishim shanah ("and fifty years", H2572 + H8141) — additional numeral joined by the conjunction va (H9002), extending the count to 350 years total.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence opens with the narrative vav (va, H9001) attached to the verb yechi, marking this as a continuation of the preceding narrative sequence about Noah's life. The verb-subject order (yechi Noach, "he-lived Noah") is typical of Biblical Hebrew narrative syntax, where the verb precedes the subject.

The time expression is built in two numeral phrases: shelosh me'ot shanah ("three hundred years") and va-chamishim shanah ("and fifty years"). Each phrase repeats the noun shanah ("year", H8141) rather than using it only once for the combined total — a common pattern in Biblical Hebrew numeral constructions where large numbers are built by joining two numeral phrases, each governing its own instance of the counted noun. The word achar ("after", H0310A) is in construct form, directly linking to ha-mabbul ("the flood") to indicate the reference point from which the 350 years are counted — not from Noah's birth or the flood's onset, but after its conclusion.

Differences between versions

The LXX (Swete text) reads triakosia etē ("three hundred years"), omitting the "fifty" (πεντήκοντα) that appears in the Hebrew va-chamishim shanah. The Vulgate follows the Hebrew total, giving trecentis quinquaginta annis ("three hundred fifty years"). Modern translations (RV1909, BSB, SBLIBRE) also render the full 350-year figure, aligning with the Hebrew rather than with the shorter LXX number shown here.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.