Offspring
נִיןStrong’s H5209nin
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nin is the Hebrew word usually translated “posterity my” and “posterity”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.”
Meaning
- Offspring, posterity
How it's translated
- and to posterity my 1
- posterity 1
- and posterity 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נִין nin · offspring
offspring, posterity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “offspring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OFF'SPRING, noun
[off and spring.
- A child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. Acts 17:28Revelation 22:16
- Propagation; generation.
- Production of any kind.
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.