Genealogy
יַ֫חַשׂStrong’s H3188yachas (ya-cha-s)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yachas is the Hebrew word usually translated “genealogical enrolment of”, “genealogical enrolment” and “genealogy”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;”
Meaning
- Genealogy
How it's translated
- genealogical enrolment of 1
- and to genealogical enrolment 1
- the genealogy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Nehemiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 31:18And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
- Nehemiah 7:5And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
Hebrew dictionary
יַ֫חַשׂ yachas · genealogy
genealogy
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “genealogy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GENEAL'OGY, noun
[Latin genealogia; Gr. race, and discourse; Eng. kind.]
- An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession.
- Pedigree; lineage; regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor.
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.