Genesis 2:4
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,
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Colossians 1:26
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
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דּוֹר
dôwr · dore
74 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 6:9Strong's last: Joel 2:2
Open full H1755 profile →תּוֹלְדָה
tôwlᵉdâh · to-led-aw'
38 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
(plural only) descent, i.e. family; (figuratively) history
Strong's KJV usage: birth, generations.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 2:4Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 26:31
Open full H8435 profile →γενεά
geneá · ghen-eh-ah'
6 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 1:17Strong's last: Colossians 1:26
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H8435
These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
H8435
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
H8435
And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
H8435
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.
H8435
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
H8435
These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
H8435
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
H8435
These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
H1755
Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;
H8435
Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.
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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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