moledet · birthplace, kindred

What it means

moledet (מוֹלֶדֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “birthplace, kindred”.

The place where one was born; one's native land and family of origin; also offspring.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One's family and homeland.
2. The fact of coming into the world, or the place where someone was born.
3. One's offspring.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• kindred ×11
• birth ×7
• born ×3
• children ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×1
• Ruth×1
• Esther×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 11:28

  Haran died in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

• Genesis 12:1

  YHWH said to Abram, “Go from your land, from your kindred, and from the house of your father to the land that I will show you.

• Genesis 24:4

  but to my land and to my kindred you will go and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

• Genesis 24:7

  YHWH, the Elohim of the heavens, who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.

• Genesis 31:3

  Then YHWH said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

• Genesis 31:13

  I am El of Bethel, where you anointed a standing stone, where you made to me a vow. Now get up, leave this land and return to the land of your kindred.’”

• Genesis 32:9

  And Jacob said, “Elohim of my father Abraham and Elohim of my father Isaac, YHWH, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you,’

• Genesis 43:7

  They said, “The man asked closely about us and about our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?’ And we told him according to these words. Could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring down your brother’?”

• Genesis 48:6

  But the children whom you have fathered after them will be yours; by the name of their brothers they will be called in their inheritance.

• Leviticus 18:9

  The nakedness of your sister, daughter of your father or daughter of your mother, born at home or born outside, you shall not uncover their nakedness.

• Leviticus 18:11

  The nakedness of the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

• Numbers 10:30

  And he said to him, “I will not go; but to my land and to my kindred I will go.”

• Ruth 2:11

  Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully told to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, and how you abandoned your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not know before.

• Esther 2:10

  Esther had not made known her people or her kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her that she not make it known.

• Esther 2:20

  Esther was not making known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; and Esther did the command of Mordecai as when she was being brought up by him.

• Esther 8:6

  For how could I see the evil that would find my people? And how could I see the ruin of my kindred?”

• Jeremiah 22:10

  Do not weep for the dead and do not grieve for him; weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will not return again or see the land of his birth.

• Jeremiah 46:16

  He made many stumble; indeed, each one fell against his neighbor, and they said, “Get up, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, from before the sword of the oppressor.”

• Ezekiel 16:3

  and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was the Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

• Ezekiel 16:4

  And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, and you were not washed with water for cleansing, and you were not rubbed with salt, and you were not wrapped in cloths.

• Ezekiel 23:15

  girded with belts on their loins, with dangling turbans on their heads, with the appearance of officers, all of them, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their birth.

And 1 more times.