Reference: Generation
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Besides the common acceptation of this word, as signifying race, descent, lineage, it is used for the history and genealogy of a person, as in Ge 5:1, "the book of the generations of Adam," that is, the history of Adam's creation and of his posterity. So in Ge 2:4, "The generations of the heavens and of the earth," that is, their genealogy, so to speak, the history of the creation of heaven and earth; also in Mt 1:1, "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ," that is, the genealogy of Jesus Christ," that is, the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the history of his descent and life. "The present generation" comprises all those who are now alive; "This generation shall not pass till all be fulfilled," some now living shall witness the even foretold, Mt 24:34. "Save yourselves from this untoward generation," form the punishment which awaits these perverse men, Ac 2:40.
The Hebrews, like other ancient nations, sometimes computed loosely by the fourth generation thy descendants shall come hither again." The duration of a generation is of course very uncertain; indeed, it is impossible to establish any precise limits. It is, however, generally admitted that a generation in the earliest periods is to be reckoned longer than one in later times. The Greeks regarded a generation as one-third of a century. It is now currently reckoned as thirty years.
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These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham.
Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.
And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
Easton
Ge 2:4, "These are the generations," means the "history." Ge 5:1, "The book of the generations," means a family register, or history of Adam. Ge 37:2, "The generations of Jacob" = the history of Jacob and his descendants. Ge 7:1, "In this generation" = in this age. Ps 49:19, "The generation of his fathers" = the dwelling of his fathers, i.e., the grave. Ps 73:15, "The generation of thy children" = the contemporary race. Isa 53:8, "Who shall declare his generation?" = His manner of life who shall declare? or rather = His race, posterity, shall be so numerous that no one shall be able to declare it.
In Mt 1:17, the word means a succession or series of persons from the same stock. Mt 3:7, "Generation of vipers" = brood of vipers. Mt 24:34, "This generation" = the persons then living contemporary with Christ. 1Pe 2:9, "A chosen generation" = a chosen people.
The Hebrews seem to have reckoned time by the generation. In the time of Abraham a generation was an hundred years, thus: Ge 15:16, "In the fourth generation" = in four hundred years (comp. Ge 15:13; Ex 12:40). In De 1:35; 2:14 a generation is a period of thirty-eight years.
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These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land that is not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.
And the residence of the children of Israel that they resided in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
None among these men, this evil generation, shall in any wise see that good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers!
Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn unto them.
It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.
If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.
He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
All the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David were fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the carrying away of Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen generations.
But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.
But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;
Fausets
Hebrew dowr, "revolution," period of time; 100 years in the patriarchal age (Ge 15:13,16; Ex 12:40), afterward 30 or 40 years (Job 42:16; Lu 1:50). On the plural GENERATIONS, Hebrew toledowt, (See GENEALOGY. Mankind is ethnologically ranged under three heads in Ge 10:3,6,22, "the sons of Japhet, Ham, Shem." Modern science by independent research arrives at a similar three fold division into Semitic, Aryan, and Turanian (Allophylian). Genesis, in accordance with modern ethnology, classifies together the Cymry or Celts (Gomer), the Medes (Madai), and the Ionians or Greeks (Javan); thus anticipating the Indo-European theory, which makes the European races (represented by the Celts and the Ionians) akin to the Aryans (represented by the Asiatic Madai or Medes).
Also Scripture, in agreement with ethnology, groups together as "children of Shem" (i.e. Semitics) Asshur (Assyrians), Aram (Syrians), Eber (Hebrew), and Joktan (the Joktanian Arabs). Also it rightly classifies under the "sons of Ham" Cash (Ethiopians), Mizraim (Egyptians), Sheba and Dedan (certain southern Arabs), and Nimrod (i.e. the oldest Babylonians). (See BABEL) Sir H. Rawlinson truly terms "the generations (genealogy) of the sons of Noah" "the most authentic record we possess for the affiliation of nations" (Journal of the Asiatic Society, 15:230). Generation means also the men of an age: as Isa 53:8, "who shall declare His generation?" i.e. their wickedness, in parallelism to their oppressive "judgment." In Jer 7:29, "generation of His wrath," i.e. with whom He is angry. Also generation is used with reference to the characteristic disposition of the age, "adulterous," "unbelieving," "untoward" (Mt 11:16; 12:39; 17:17; Ac 2:40).
In Lu 16:8, "the children of this world are in respect to their own (so the Greek) generation (i.e. in relation to men of their own kind, men of this world) wiser than the children of light," are in respect to their generation (men of their kind, godly, men of the world to come). In Mt 3:7 generation means "brood of vipers." In Mt 24:34 "this generation shall not pass (namely, the Jewish race, of which the generation in Christ's days was a sample in character; compare Christ's address to the generation, Mt 23:35-36, in proof that generation means at times the whole Jewish race) until all these things be fulfilled," a prophecy that the Jews shall be a distinct people still when He shall come again.
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And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land that is not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
And the residence of the children of Israel that they resided in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, which, calling to their companions,
But he, answering, said to them, A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it save the sign of Jonas the prophet.
And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me.
so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.
and his mercy is to generations and generations to them that fear him.
And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.
And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
Hastings
Generation' is used in AV to tr 1. Heb. d
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These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.
He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.
It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.
I said, My God, take me not away in the midst of my days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation.
There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother; there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness; read more. there is a generation, how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up! a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham.
But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.
the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been made manifest to his saints;
But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;
Morish
This is used in various senses in scripture.
1. As from a father to his son, or from a king to his successor, ?????, as in the three series of 'fourteen generations' in Mt 1:17, though the same term is applied where names have been omitted. See GENEALOGY OF THE LORD JESUS.
2. In a much wider sense, as when the Lord said of the unbelieving Jews, "This generation shall not pass away till all these things be fulfilled." Mt 24:34; Lu 21:32: cf. De 32:5,20. The unbelieving Jews still exist and will until the events take place.
3. As offspring, ???????, where there was a moral likeness, as "generation of vipers." Mt 3:7, etc.
4. As class, family, etc., ?????. Ye are 'a chosen generation.' 1Pe 2:9.
5. As signifying perpetuity: God's dominion is 'from generation to generation.' Da 4:3,34.
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They have dealt corruptly with him; Not his children's is their spot: A crooked and perverted generation!
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto the heavens, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.
All the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David were fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the carrying away of Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen generations.
But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall in no wise pass away until all come to pass.
But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;
Smith
Generation.
In the long-lived patriarchal age a generation seems to have been computed at 100 years,
comp. Gene 15:13 and Eccl 12:40 but subsequently the reckoning was the same which has been adopted by modern civilized nations, viz. from thirty to forty years
(Generation is also used to signify the men of an age or time, as contemporaries,
posterity, especially in legal formulae,
etc.; fathers, or ancestors.
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This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.
And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
It is an everlasting statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings: no fat and no blood shall ye eat.
And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.
He was taken from oppression and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Watsons
GENERATION. Beside the common acceptation of this word, as signifying descent, it is used for the history and genealogy of any individual, as "The book of the generations of Adam," Ge 5:1, the history of Adam's creation, and of his posterity. "The generations of the heavens and of the earth," Ge 2:4, is a recital of the creation of heaven and earth. "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David," Mt 1:1, is the genealogy of Jesus Christ, and the history of his life. The ancients sometimes computed by generations: "In the fourth generation thy descendants shall come hither again," Ge 15:16. "Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation," Ge 50:23. "A bastard shall not be admitted into the congregation, till the tenth generation," De 23:2. Among the ancients, when the duration of generations was not exactly described by the age of four men succeeding one another from father to son, it was fixed by some at a hundred years, by others at a hundred and ten, by others at thirty-three, thirty, twenty-five, and even at twenty years; being neither uniform nor settled: only, it is remarked, that a generation is longer as it is more ancient.
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These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.
A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.
Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham.