H8435 - תּוֹלְדָה (tôwlᵉdâh)

H8435 תּוֹלְדָה (tôwlᵉdâh) to-led-aw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

generation

Strong's Definition

(plural only) descent, i.e. family; (figuratively) history

Derivation: or תֹּלְדָה; from H3205 (יָלַד);

KJV Usage: birth, generations.

TWOT Reference: 867g

Outline of Biblical Usage

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)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1078 G4772

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

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)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

תֹּלְדָה / תּוֹלְדָה tôledâh BDB Definition: 1) descendants, results, proceedings, generations, genealogies 1a) account of men and their descendants 1a1) genealogical list of ones descendants 1a2) ones contemporaries 1a3) course of history (of creation etc) 1b) begetting or account of heaven (metaphorically) Part of Speech: noun feminine plural A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3205 Same Word by TWOT Number: 867g Total KJV Occurrences: 40

Bible Occurrences (39)

2:4 5:1 6:9 10:1 10:32 11:10 11:27 25:12 25:13 25:19 36:1 36:9 37:2

6:16 6:19 28:10

1:20 1:22 1:24 1:26 1:28 1:30 1:32 1:34 1:36 1:38 1:40 1:42 3:1

4:18

1:29 5:7 7:2 7:4 7:9 8:28 9:9 9:34 26:31

Genesis 2:4

This [is] the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made [them]....

Genesis 5:1

This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness....

Genesis 6:9

This [is] the account of Noah. Noah... was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 10:1

This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth,... who also had sons after the flood.

Genesis 10:32

All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.

Genesis 11:10

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

Genesis 11:27

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Genesis 25:12

This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.