Relatives
מוֹלֶ֫דֶתStrong’s H4138moledet (mo-le-det)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Moledet is the Hebrew word usually translated “kindred my”, “kindred his” and “kindred your”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.”
Meaning
- Kindred, birth, offspring, relativeskindred · birth, circumstances of birth · one born, begotten, issue, offspring, female offspring
How it's translated
- kindred my 4
- kindred his 2
- and to kindred your 2
- kindred your 2
- one born of 2
- kindred her 2
- and birth your 2
- and from kindred your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 9
- Esther 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Leviticus 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Numbers 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 12:1Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
- Genesis 24:4But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
- Genesis 24:7The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
- Genesis 31:3And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
- Genesis 31:13I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
- Genesis 32:9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹלֶ֫דֶת moledet · relatives
1) kindred, birth, offspring, relatives 1a) kindred 1b) birth, circumstances of birth 1c) one born, begotten, issue, offspring, female offspring
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “relative” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REL'ATIVE, adjective
[Latin relativus.]
- Having relation; respecting.
- Not absolute or existing by itself; considered as belonging to or respecting something else.
- Incident to man in society; as relative rights and duties.
- Particular; positive. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “relative”
REL'ATIVE, noun
- A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
- That which has relation to something else.
- In grammar, a word which relates to or represents another word, called its antecedent, or to a sentence or member of a sentence, or to a series of sentences, which constitutes its antecedent. 'He seldom lives frugally, who lives by chance.' Here who is the relative which represents he, the antecedent.
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.