תּוֹלֵדוֹת
to.le.dah
“generation”
Definition
(plural only) descent, i.e. family; (figuratively) history
or תֹּלְדָה; from H3205 (יָלַד);
- 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)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
תּוֹלֵדוֹת appears 39 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
These are their genealogies:Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
and 956 of their relatives according to their genealogy. All these men were heads of their families.
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.
From the sons of Judah, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
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