155 occurrences in 13 translations

'Generations' in the Bible

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceSelf DelusionFalse HopesNot MovedNo Troublerehabilitation

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFutureGenerations

I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

Verse ConceptsFutureReminders Of God

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming ThingsInner Beauty

For You have heard my vows, O God;You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To Me

Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

Verse ConceptsLiving Long

Has His faithful love ceased forever?Is His promise at an end for all generations?

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenGod's PromisesEnd Of Actions

Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringGod Forgetting

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdPraiseGenerationsPeople Of God, In OtSheepWe Thank God

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementWill God Be Angry?

{Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

Verse ConceptsMouthsPraise, Reasons ForSingingI Will Sing PraisesGod's Deed RevealedGod's Faithfulness

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

Verse ConceptsPsalm InterjectionsThe Dynasty Of DavidSeedspreservation

{A Prayer of Moses the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Verse ConceptsWe Live With Godfitness

But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

Verse ConceptsGod, The EternalGod, The LordPrayer, And Worshipremembrance

The account of his intervention will be recorded for future generations; people yet to be born will praise the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPraiseWritingFuture GenerationsPraising GodThe Futureencouraging

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

Verse ConceptsEarly Death

And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

Verse ConceptsCreditReckoningRighteous By Obedience

Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.

Verse ConceptsGod, The Lordremembrance

The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPraisePraise, Manner And Methods OfGod Reigning ForeverPraise The Lord!

There is not a remembrance of former generations; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

Verse ConceptsAnonymityUnknown FutureThe Pastremembrancepast

Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?

Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateForgetting PeopleDeath Is UniversalWise Man Or FoolWisdom

There is no end to all the people nor to the past generations, yet future generations will not rejoice in him. This also is profitless and like chasing the wind.

Verse ConceptsVanityUseless Endeavour

It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

Verse ConceptsNomadsEmpty CitiesNo More Tending The Flock

In the generations to come Jacob will take root;Israel will blossom and sprout,And they will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Verse ConceptsBlossomFilling PlacesRootsPotential Of FruitGod's People PlantedRoses

And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned it to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!

Verse ConceptsHand Of God

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.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfClothingGod, Righteousness OfInsectsWoolSalvation, Described AsWicked Described AsMothsPeople Eaten By WormEternal DeliverancePeople Wearing Outclosureworms

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Verse ConceptsRuinsWallsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingbridgesrebuilding

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

Verse ConceptsFuturePeople Abandoning PeoplePeople Being HatedYou Will Rejoice In SalvationExcellencereinforcement

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBeginningRuinsBuilding CitiesArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingRebuilding JerusalemRenewalbridgesrebuilding

Therefore, desert creatures will live with hyenas,and ostriches will also live in her.It will never again be inhabitedor lived in through all generations.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBirds, Types Of BirdsEmpty CitiesOstrichescats

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

Verse ConceptsBlackLargenessDark DaysUnique EventsLarge Armies

But Judah will be inhabited foreverAnd Jerusalem for all generations.

Verse ConceptsInhabitationjerusalem

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToGenerationsThe Number FourteenFourteenExile Of Judah To BabylonChrist's OriginNativity of Jesus ChristJesus Birth

For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

Verse ConceptsFuture GenerationsGod And The HumbleBlessed By Godmindfulness

After all, Moses has had people to proclaim him in every city for generations, and on every Sabbath his books are read aloud in the synagogues."

Verse ConceptsReadingSabbath, In NtReading The ScripturesOn The SabbathThe Law ProclaimedUse Of The Scripturesthe Law of moses

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

Verse ConceptsFoolish QuestionsFools, Characteristics OfFalse ReligionFablesFalse Doctrines, AvoidanceMythsContinual SinHow Faith ComesTeaching The Way Of Godattentionstories

and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,

Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfSexual Sin, Nature OfAfflictions Of The WickedDestruction Of CitiesTwo CitiesAshes Of HumiliationExamples Of Ungodly Mencondemnation

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Contemporaries (4 instances)
Generation (166 instances)

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Definition
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γενεά 
Genea 
Usage: 17

γένεσις 
Genesis 
Usage: 3

γέννημα 
Gennema 
Usage: 3

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