נֶכֶד

neched · descendants

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5220 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

neched (נֶכֶד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “descendants”.

Those who come after.

How to say it

ne·ched

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. Those born of someone over time.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • descendant ×1
  • descendants ×1
  • posterity ×1

Where it appears

  • Genesis 21:23

    So now, swear to me here by Elohim that you will not deal falsely with me or with my children or with my descendants. As the loyal love that I have shown you, so you will show me and the land in which you have resided as an alien.”

  • Job 18:19

    He has no son nor descendant among his people, and there is no survivor where he resided.

  • Isaiah 14:22

    “And I will rise up against them,” declares YHWH Tsevaot, “and I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, progeny and posterity,” declares YHWH.