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title: תּוֹלֵדוֹת — generations · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תּוֹלֵדוֹת (8435), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 39 times: generations. BDB 1906: n.f.pl. generations genealogies account of man and his descendants. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תּוֹלֵדוֹת

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«תּוֹלֵדוֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **generations** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 39 times · **Key:** 8435 · **BDB:** תּוֹלֵדוֹת

### Glosses

genealogies (12); \[are\].the.accounts (10); generations (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

generations [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8435/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f.pl. generations genealogies account of man and his descendants [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8435/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f.pl. generations, especially in genealogies = account of a man and his descendants;—cstr. תּוֹלְדוֹת Gn 2:4 Ru 4:18; תּוֹלְדֹת Gn 5:1 + 6 times; תֹּלְדוֹת 36:1 + 2 times; תֹּלְדֹת 25:12; sf. תֹּלְדֹתָיו 1 Ch 26:31; תּוֹלְדֹתָם Ex 28:10 + 16 times; תֹּלְדוֹתָם 1 Ch 5:7 + 5 times; תֹּלְדֹתָם Ex 6:16, 19;— account of men and their descendants Gn 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10, 27; 25:12, 19; 36:1, 9; 37:2; Nu 3:1; Ru 4:18; 1 Ch 1:29; successive generations (in) of families (מִשְׁפָּחֹת) Gn 10:32 cf. 25:13, Ex 6:16, 19; 28:10; genealogical divisions, by parentage Nu 1:20 (ת׳ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם) + 11 times Nu 1; וְאֶחָיו לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָיו בְּהִתְיַחֶשׂ לתולדותם 1 Ch 5:7 cf. 7:9 and prob. also 7:2 v Be, 7:4; 8:28; 9:9, 34; 26:31. metaph. תּוֹלְדוֹת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהָאָרֶץ Gn 2:4 lit. begettings of heaven and earth, i.e, account of heaven and earth and that which proceeded from them (cf. DrIntr. 5 n.) In Hex always P.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תּוֹלֵדוֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8435/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 36:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.1/)

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וְאֵ֛לֶּה תֹּלְד֥וֹת עֵשָׂ֖ו ה֥וּא אֱדֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.accounts of.Esau that \[is\].Edom

*JPS 1917:* Now these are the generations of Esau — the same is Edom.

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[Ruth 4:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.18/)

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וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ תּוֹלְד֣וֹת פָּ֔רֶץ פֶּ֖רֶץ הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־חֶצְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.descendants of.Perez Perez he.fathered (et) Hezron

*JPS 1917:* Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez begot Hezron;

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