Generation
תּוֹלֵדוֹתStrong’s H8435toledah (to-le-dah)
Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Toledah is the Hebrew word usually translated “genealogies their”, “accounts of” and “generations their”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.
“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,”
Meaning
- Descendants, results, proceedings, generations, genealogiesaccount of men and their descendants · begetting or account of heaven (metaph)
How it's translated
- genealogies their 12
- accounts of 10
- to generations their 7
- to descendants their 4
- descendants of 3
- according to genealogies their 1
- generations their 1
- to generations his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 13
- Numbers 13
- 1 Chronicles 9
- Exodus 3
- Ruth 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 10:1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- Genesis 10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
- Genesis 11:10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
- Genesis 11:27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹלֵדוֹת toledah · generation
1) descendants, results, proceedings, generations, genealogies 1a) account of men and their descendants 1a1) genealogical list of one's descendants 1a2) one's contemporaries 1a3) course of history (of creation etc) 1b) begetting or account of heaven (metaph)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “generation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GENERA'TION, noun
The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals.
- Production; formation; as the generation of sounds or of curves or equations.
- A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age. Genesis 15:16
- The people of the same period, or living at the same time.“O faithless and perverse generation” Luke 9:41
- Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock.“This is the book of the generations of Adam” Genesis 5:1
All definitions
- A family; a race.
- Progeny; offspring.
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.