Genesis 7:1
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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Generation
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1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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Genesis
33 verses
Exodus
54 verses
Numbers
22 verses
Deuteronomy
99 verses
Judges
21 verses
2 Kings
22 verses
Esther
11 verses
Psalms
1716 verses
Proverbs
55 verses
Ecclesiastes
21 verses
Isaiah
95 verses
Jeremiah
43 verses
Lamentations
21 verses
Daniel
42 verses
Joel
32 verses
Matthew
1313 verses
Mark
54 verses
Luke
1413 verses
Acts
33 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
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דּוֹר
dôwr · dore
59 times translated as this KJV form165 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
Strong's KJV usage: age, × evermore, generation, (n-) ever, posterity.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 7:1Strong's last: Joel 3:20
Open full H1755 profile →γενεά
geneá · ghen-eh-ah'
31 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons)
Strong's KJV usage: :--age, generation, nation, time.
Strong's first: Matthew 11:16Strong's last: Hebrews 3:10
Open full G1074 profile →γέννημα
génnēma · ghen'-nay-mah
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
offspring; by analogy, produce (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fruit, generation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 3:7Strong's last: Luke 3:7
Open full G1081 profile →דָּר
dâr · dawr
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
an age
Strong's KJV usage: generation.
Strong's first: Daniel 4:3Strong's last: Daniel 4:34
Open full H1859 profile →γένεσις
génesis · ghen'-es-is
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
nativity; figuratively, nature
Strong's KJV usage: :--generation, nature(-ral).
Strong's first: Matthew 1:1Strong's last: Matthew 1:1
Open full G1078 profile →γένος
génos · ghen'-os
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
"kin" (abstract or concrete, literal or figurative, individual or collective)
Strong's KJV usage: :--born, country(-man), diversity, generation, kind(-red), nation, offspring, stock.
Strong's first: 1 Peter 2:9Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:9
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H1755
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
H1755
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
H1755
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
H1755
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
H1755
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
H1755
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
H1755
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
H1755
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
H1755
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
H1755
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
H1755
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
H1755
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
H1755
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
H1859
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
H1859
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
H1859
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
H1859
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
H1755
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
H1755
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
H1755
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
G1078
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
G1081
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
G1074
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
G1081
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
G1074
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
English meaning and historical usage.
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generation
GENERA'TION, noun The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals.
1. Production; formation; as the generation of sounds or of curves or equations.
2. A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age. Thus we say, the third, the fourth, or the tenth generation Genesis 15:16.
3. The people of the same period, or living at the same time.
O faithless and perverse generation Luke 9:41.
4. Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. Genesis 5:1.
5. A family; a race.
6. Progeny; offspring.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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