tolda · generations

What it means

tolda (תּוֹלְדָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “generations”.

What comes from someone: his descendants and their history. "These are the generations of..." is the phrase with which Genesis opens each of its sections.

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. Someone's descendants and their story.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• generations ×38
• order of their birth ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×13
• Exodus×3
• Numbers×13
• Ruth×1
• 1 Chronicles×9

• Genesis 2:4

  These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that YHWH Elohim made earth and heavens.

• Genesis 5:1

  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created the human being, in the likeness of Elohim he made him.

• Genesis 6:9

  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; with Elohim Noah walked.

• Genesis 10:1

  And these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

• Genesis 10:32

  These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations separated on the earth after the flood.

• Genesis 11:10

  These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

• Genesis 11:27

  Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

• Genesis 25:12

  These are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave woman, bore to Abraham.

• Genesis 25:13

  These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

• Genesis 25:19

  These are the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.

• Genesis 36:1

  These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

• Genesis 36:9

  These are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in the hill country of Seir.

• Genesis 37:2

  These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought bad reports about them to their father.

• Exodus 6:16

  These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty- seven years.

• Exodus 6:19

  The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

• Exodus 28:10

  six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the second stone, in the order of their birth.

• Numbers 1:20

  The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:22

  Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those of them counted, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:24

  Of the sons of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:26

  Of the sons of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:28

  Of the sons of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:30

  Of the sons of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:32

  Of the sons of Joseph, of the sons of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:34

  Of the sons of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:36

  Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:38

  Of the sons of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:40

  Of the sons of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:42

  The sons of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 3:1

  And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses on the day YHWH spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

• Ruth 4:18

  Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron;

• 1 Chronicles 1:29

  These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

• 1 Chronicles 5:7

  And his brothers, by their families, in the genealogical record according to their generations: the head, Jeiel; and Zechariah,

• 1 Chronicles 7:2

  And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola, mighty men of valor according to their generations; their number in the days of David: twenty-two thousand six hundred.

• 1 Chronicles 7:4

  And with them, according to their generations, by their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army of war: thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.

• 1 Chronicles 7:9

  And their genealogical record, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor: twenty thousand two hundred.

• 1 Chronicles 8:28

  These were heads of fathers’ houses according to their generations, heads; these lived in Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 9:9

  and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers’ houses according to their fathers’ houses.

• 1 Chronicles 9:34

  These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their generations, heads; these lived in Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 26:31

  Of the Hebronites, Jeriah was the head, of the Hebronites according to their generations by fathers’ houses. In the year forty of the reign of David they were searched out, and there were found among them very capable men at Jazer of Gilead.