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 records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;
The historical record of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.
And with many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, "Be saved from this corrupt 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 records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you [alone] are righteous before Me in this generation.
Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know this for certain: Your offspring will be strangers in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years.
In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."
These are the family records of Jacob. At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man [was working] with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.
The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
'None of these men in this evil generation will see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was 38 years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see the light.
If I had decided to say these things [aloud], I would have betrayed Your people.
He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered His fate? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of My people's rebellion.
So all the generations from Abraham to David were 14 generations; and from David until the exile to Babylon, 14 generations; and from the exile to Babylon until the Messiah, 14 generations.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous 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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Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know this for certain: Your offspring will be strangers in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years.
In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."
The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered His fate? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of My people's rebellion.
Cut off the hair of your sacred vowand throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under His wrath.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
"To what should I compare this generation? It's like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to each other:
But He answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Jesus replied, "You unbelieving and rebellious generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to Me."
So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. I assure you: All these things will come on this generation!
I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.
His mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear Him.
"The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted astutely. For the sons of this age are more astute than the sons of light [in dealing] with their own people.
And with many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, "Be saved from this corrupt generation!"
Hastings
Generation' is used in AV to tr 1. Heb. d
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These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;
These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.
He says to himself, "I will never be moved- from generation to generation without calamity."
he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see the light.
I say: "My God, do not take me in the middle of my life! Your years continue through all generations.
There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filth. read more. There is a generation-how haughty its eyes and pretentious its looks. There is a generation whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, devouring the oppressed from the land and the needy from among mankind.
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. You make an end of me from day until night.
For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, and My salvation for all generations.
The historical record of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.
the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to His saints.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous 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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His people have acted corruptly toward Him; this is their defect-they are not His children but a devious and crooked generation.
He said: "I will hide My face from them; I will see what will become of them, for they are a perverse generation- unfaithful children.
How great are His miracles, and how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and His dominion is from generation to generation.
But at the end of those days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity returned to me. Then I praised the Most High and honored and glorified Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation.
So all the generations from Abraham to David were 14 generations; and from David until the exile to Babylon, 14 generations; and from the exile to Babylon until the Messiah, 14 generations.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place.
I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all things take place.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous 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 family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.
In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood."
Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see the light.
He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered His fate? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of My people's rebellion.
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 records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;
In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."
He saw Ephraim's sons to the third generation; the sons of Manasseh's son Machir were recognized by Joseph.
No one of illegitimate birth may enter the Lord's assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the Lord's assembly.
The historical record of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: