Generation
דָּרStrong’s H1859dar
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dar is the Aramaic word usually translated “generation”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.”
Meaning
- Generation
How it's translated
- generation 2
- and generation 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
דָּר dar · generation
generation Aramaic of dor (דּוֹר "generation" H1755)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.