Generation
דּוֹרStrong’s H1755dor
Appears in 127 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dor is the Hebrew word usually translated “generation”, “generations your” and “generations their”. It appears in 127 verses of the Old Testament.
“These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.”
Meaning
- Period, generation, habitation, dwellingperiod, age, generation (period of time) · generation (those living during a period) · generation (characterised by quality, condition, class of men) · dwelling-place, habitation
How it's translated
- and a generation 30
- to generations your 26
- a generation 23
- to a generation 22
- generation 9
- to generations their 9
- the generation 7
- generation of 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 37
- Exodus 17
- Leviticus 14
- Isaiah 11
- Numbers 10
- Deuteronomy 10
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:1And 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 9:12And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
- Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Genesis 17:9And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
- Genesis 17:12And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
All 127 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
דּוֹר dor · generation
1) period, generation, habitation, dwelling 1a) period, age, generation (period of time) 1b) generation (those living during a period) 1c) generation (characterised by quality, condition, class of men) 1d) dwelling-place, habitation Aramaic equivalent: dar (דָּר "generation" H1859)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “generation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GENERA'TION, noun
The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals.
- Production; formation; as the generation of sounds or of curves or equations.
- A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age. Genesis 15:16
- The people of the same period, or living at the same time.“O faithless and perverse generation” Luke 9:41
- Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock.“This is the book of the generations of Adam” Genesis 5:1
All definitions
- A family; a race.
- Progeny; offspring.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.