Genesis 25:7 - Exposition

And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, —an impressive and appropriate expression for the computation of life (of. Genesis 47:9 )— an hundred and threescore and fifteen years — i . e . 175 years; so that he must have lived seventy-five years after Isaac's birth and thirty-eight years after Sarah's death. "His grandfather lived 148 years, his father 205, his son 180, and his grandson 147; so that his years were the full average of that period (Murphy).