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 geneses of the heavens and the earth when they were created, - in the day when Yahweh God made earth and heavens.
This, is the record of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, In the likeness of God, made he him:
The Lineage Roll of Jesus Christ, - Son of David, Son of Abraham.
Verily, I say unto you - In nowise, shall this generation, pass away, until all these things, shall happen:
And, with many different words, bare he frail witness, and went on exhorting 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 geneses of the heavens and the earth when they were created, - in the day when Yahweh God made earth and heavens.
This, is the record of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, In the likeness of God, made he him:
And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy house, into the ark, - for, thee, have I seen righteous before me, in this generation.
And he said to Abram - Thou must surely know, that, sojourners, will thy seed become in a land not theirs, and shall serve them and they will humble them, four hundred years;
And, in the fourth generation, shall they return hither, - for not complete, is the iniquity of the Amorites, as yet,
These, are the generations of Jacob - Joseph, when seventeen years old, was shepherding with his brethren among the flocks, and, he, being a youth, was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah wives of his father, - so then Joseph brought in the talk about them - something bad, unto their father.
Now, the time during which the sons of Israel dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
Surely, not one of these men, this wicked generation, - shall see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers:
Now, the days in which we journeyed from Kadesh-barnea, as far as where we crossed the ravine of Zered, were thirty-eight years, - until all the generation of the men of war were consumed out of the midst of the camp, as Yahweh had sworn unto them.
He shall enter as far as the circle of his fathers, Nevermore, shall they see the light.
If I had thought, I will relate it thus, Lo! the circle of thy sons, had I betrayed.
By constraint and by sentence, was he taken away, And of his age, who considered That he was cut off out of the land of the living, For my peoples transgression, did the stroke fall on him?
So then, all the generations from Abraham unto David, are, fourteen, generations, and, from David unto the removal to Babylon, fourteen, generations; and, from the removal to Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen, generations.
But, seeing, many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming unto his immersion, he said to them, - Broods of vipers! who suggested to you, to be fleeing from the coming wrath?
Verily, I say unto you - In nowise, shall this generation, pass away, until all these things, shall happen:
But, ye, are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a peculiar treasure, that, the excellences, ye may tell forth, of him who, out of darkness, hath called you into his marvellous 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 Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
And he said to Abram - Thou must surely know, that, sojourners, will thy seed become in a land not theirs, and shall serve them and they will humble them, four hundred years;
And, in the fourth generation, shall they return hither, - for not complete, is the iniquity of the Amorites, as yet,
Now, the time during which the sons of Israel dwelt 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.
By constraint and by sentence, was he taken away, And of his age, who considered That he was cut off out of the land of the living, For my peoples transgression, did the stroke fall on him?
Cut thou off thy crown of hair O Jerusalem , and cast it away, And lift thou up on the bare heights, a dirge, - For Yahweh hath rejected and cast out the generation with which he was wroth.
But, seeing, many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming unto his immersion, he said to them, - Broods of vipers! who suggested to you, to be fleeing from the coming wrath?
But, unto what, shall I liken this generation? It is, like, unto children, sitting the market-places, who, calling unto the others,
But, he, answering, said unto them, A wicked and adulterous generation, a sign, doth seek, and, a sign, will not be, given, it, save the sign of Jonah the prophet.
And Jesus, answering, said - O faithless and perverted generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me, here.
That there may come upon you - all righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the Temple and the altar. Verily, I say unto you - All these things, will have come, upon this generation.
Verily, I say unto you - In nowise, shall this generation, pass away, until all these things, shall happen:
And his mercy is unto generations and generations, to them who revere him;
And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, in that with forethought he acted: - Because, the sons of this age, have more forethought than the sons of light, respecting their own generation.
And, with many different words, bare he frail witness, and went on exhorting 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 geneses of the heavens and the earth when they were created, - in the day when Yahweh God made earth and heavens.
This, is the record of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, In the likeness of God, made he him:
These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations, - with God, did Noah walk.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be shaken, - From generation to generation, shall I be in no misfortune.
He shall enter as far as the circle of his fathers, Nevermore, shall they see the light.
I said, O my GOD, do not remove me in the midst of my days, Throughout the generation of generations, are thy years;
A generation! Its father, it revileth, and, its mother, it doth not bless. A generation! Pure in its own eyes, yet, from its filth, hath it not been bathed, read more. A generation! How lofty are its eyes, and its eyelashes uplifted. A generation! Swords, are its teeth, and, knives, its incisors, - to devour the humbled out of the earth, and the needy, from among men.
My dwelling, hath been broken up. And is stripped from me, like a shepherds tent, - I have roiled up - as a weaver - my life From the loom, doth he cut me off, From day until night, I said - Thou wilt finish me.
For like a garment, shall they be eaten of the moth, And like wool, shall they he eaten of the larva; But, my righteousness, unto times age-abiding shall continue, And, my salvation, unto the remotest generation.
The Lineage Roll of Jesus Christ, - Son of David, Son of Abraham.
But, seeing, many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming unto his immersion, he said to them, - Broods of vipers! who suggested to you, to be fleeing from the coming wrath?
Verily, I say unto you - In nowise, shall this generation, pass away, until all these things, shall happen:
The sacred secret which had been hidden away from the ages and from the generations, but, now, hath been made manifest unto his saints -
But, ye, are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a peculiar treasure, that, the excellences, ye may tell forth, of him who, out of darkness, hath called you into his marvellous 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 broken faith with him to be no sons of his - their fault, - A generation twisted and crooked.
So he said: - I will hide any face from them, I will see what will be their hereafter, - For a generation given to intrigue, they are, Sons, whom there is no trusting;
His signs, how great! and, his wonders, how mighty! His kingdom, is an age-abiding kingdom, and, his dominion, lasteth from generation to generation.
And, at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes unto the heavens, did uplift, and, mine understanding, unto me, returned, and, the Most High, I blessed, and, to him that liveth age-abidingly, I rendered praise and honour, - whose dominion, is an age-abiding dominion, and, his kingdom, lasteth from generation to generation;
So then, all the generations from Abraham unto David, are, fourteen, generations, and, from David unto the removal to Babylon, fourteen, generations; and, from the removal to Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen, generations.
But, seeing, many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming unto his immersion, he said to them, - Broods of vipers! who suggested to you, to be fleeing from the coming wrath?
Verily, I say unto you - In nowise, shall this generation, pass away, until all these things, shall happen:
Verily, I say unto you - In nowise shall this generation pass away, until, all things, shall happen:
But, ye, are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a peculiar treasure, that, the excellences, ye may tell forth, of him who, out of darkness, hath called you into his marvellous 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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These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations, - with God, did Noah walk.
And, in the fourth generation, shall they return hither, - for not complete, is the iniquity of the Amorites, as yet,
An age-abiding statute to your generations, in all your dwellings, - none of the fat nor of the blood, shall ye eat.
And Job lived, after this, a hundred and forty years, - and saw his sons and his sons' sons, four generations.
He shall enter as far as the circle of his fathers, Nevermore, shall they see the light.
By constraint and by sentence, was he taken away, And of his age, who considered That he was cut off out of the land of the living, For my peoples transgression, did the stroke fall on him?
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 geneses of the heavens and the earth when they were created, - in the day when Yahweh God made earth and heavens.
This, is the record of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, In the likeness of God, made he him:
And, in the fourth generation, shall they return hither, - for not complete, is the iniquity of the Amorites, as yet,
And Joseph saw Ephraim's, sons of three generations - moreover the sons of Machir, son of Manasseh, were born upon Joseph's knees.
A bastard shall not enter into the convocation of Yahweh, - even to the tenth generation, shall none of his enter into the convocation of Yahweh.
The Lineage Roll of Jesus Christ, - Son of David, Son of Abraham.