Descendant
עֵ֫קֶרStrong’s H6133eqer (e-qer)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Eqer is the Hebrew word usually translated “member of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:”
Meaning
- Member, offspring, offshoot
How it's translated
- to a member of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עֵ֫קֶר eqer · descendant
member, offspring, offshoot Aramaic equivalent: iq.qar (עִקַּר "root" H6136)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “descendant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESCENDANT, noun
Any person proceeding from an ancestor in any degree; issue; offspring, in the line of generation, ad infinitum. We are all the descendants of Adam and Eve.
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.