Progeny
נֶ֫כֶדStrong’s H5220nekhed (ne-khed)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nekhed is the Hebrew word usually translated “progeny my” and “progeny”. 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
- Progeny, posterity
How it's translated
- and to progeny my 1
- progeny 1
- and progeny 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.
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Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫כֶד nekhed · progeny
progeny, posterity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “progeny” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROG'ENY, noun
[Latin progenies, from progignor.]
Offspring; race; children; descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; as the progeny of a king; the progeny of Adam; the progeny of beasts or fowls; a word of general application.
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.