85 occurrences

'Offspring' in the Bible

and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsAnimal OffspringKept Alive By MenMale And Female Animals

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalDust, Figurative UseUncountableNumerous As DustImpossible For People

Abram continued, “Look, You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house will be my heir.”

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofAbrahamSlavery, In OtBorn In One's HouseNot Giving

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be foreigners in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years.

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature Of100 Years And MoreSojourningSure KnowledgeThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelDescendants ofslaveryoppression

The Angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingUncountableImpossible For PeopleGod Multipling People

And to you and your future offspring I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamGod, The EternalLand, As A Divine GiftProperty, LandThe Promised LandEternal PossessionSojourningI Will Be Their God

God also said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep My covenant.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And Victory

This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised.

Verse ConceptsGesturesCeremoniesCircumcisionGod's Covenant With The Patriarchs

Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised. This includes a slave born in your house and one purchased with money from any foreigner. The one who is not your offspring,

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfLess Than A Year OldBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGroups Of Slaves

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his future offspring.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamBearingThe Eternal CovenantGod Naming PeopleGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Promise Of A Babysarah

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be concerned about the boy and your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamProphecies Concerning ChristPay Attention To People!sarah

But I will also make a nation of the slave’s son because he is your offspring.”

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’—He will send His angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamLand, As A Divine GiftOaths, DivineServants, GoodAngels, Ministry To BelieversAngels Going At God's BiddingBringing People Out Of Other PlacesTaking A Wife

They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:Our sister, may you becomethousands upon ten thousands.May your offspring possessthe gates of their enemies.

Verse ConceptsBenedictionsBlessedA Million And MoreCapturing GatesPeople OvercomingPeople Who Blessed OthersChildren Being A Blessing

stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamOaths, DivineSojourningGod Swearing BlessingsGod Will Be With YouGod Will Blessland

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingConsistencyevangelists, identity ofBlessings, To AbrahamMission, Of IsraelBlessing Through God's People

and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of My servant Abraham.”

Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheGod Of The FathersServanthood, In Life Of BelieversFear, Overcome ByProsperity PromisedGod With YouVisions At NightGod AppearingGod Multipling PeopleI Am GodGod Will BlessDo Not Fear For God Will HelpFor The Sake Of God's People

May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Verse ConceptsBlessing Through God's PeopleGod Gave The Land

Yahweh was standing there beside him, saying, “I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land that you are now sleeping on.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftI Am Godgrandfathers

Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Verse ConceptsConsistencyeastNorthOffspringSpreadingSouthNorth, South, East And WestNumerous As DustBlessing Through God's PeopleBlessings For Jew And Gentile

You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”

Verse ConceptsUncountableImpossible For PeopleGod Doing GoodSand And Gravel

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and produce offspring for your brother.”

Verse ConceptsBrothersLoyaltyMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWidowsBrothers in lawSocial dutiesDutysexSiblingsRaising ChildrenRelationships And DatingWifeSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningSemenNot GivingPeople With General KnowledgesexSeedsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

His sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters, indeed all his offspring, he brought with him to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, but now God has even let me see your offspring.”

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attainment OfSeeing People

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe, and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation.”

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildPeople With General KnowledgeRules About Young People

you are to present to the Lord every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the Lord’s.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningWombConsecrationOpening The WombPeople Belong To God

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel—You swore to them by Your very self and declared, ‘I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it forever.’”

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersHeirsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityServants Of The LordGolden CalvesEternal PossessionGod Swearing Blessings

The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go, leave here, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to your offspring.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamOaths, DivineBringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod Gave The LandOthers Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

I will turn against that man and cut him off from his people, because he gave his offspring to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodOpposition, To Sin And EvilSanctuaryProfaning God's NameGod OpposingPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

Verse ConceptsMidgetsBefore The FloodInsectsGrasshoppersGiantsSmall Creaturesexploringbugs

“I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the Lord as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the Lord for you as well as your offspring.”

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Israel's priestsGod, The EternalOffspringThe Eternal CovenantFood For Priests DefinedSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiGod’s Covenant With The Levites

Your descendants will be blessed,and your land’s produce,and the offspring of your livestock,including the young of your herdsand the newborn of your flocks.

Verse ConceptsBlessedFruitfulness, NaturalLambsWombLand ProducingPets

The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with children, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

Verse ConceptsCropsGenerosity, God'sLand ProducingGod Gave The LandThe Righteous ProsperBlessings And ProsperityWealth And ProsperityRespecting Your Body

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.

Verse ConceptsOilFamine ComingFamine Will Come

The Lord your God will make you prosper abundantly in all the work of your hands with children, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce. Indeed, the Lord will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfFutureFruitfulness, NaturalHeart, DivineWombLand ProducingThe Righteous ProsperAbundanceGod's WillBlessings And Prosperityprospering

Gideon had 70 sons, his own offspring, since he had many wives.

Verse ConceptsPolygamySeventiesgideon

May your house become like the house of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

Verse ConceptsOffspringLike Good People

Jonathan then said to David, “Go in the assurance the two of us pledged in the name of the Lord when we said: The Lord will be a witness between you and me and between my offspring and your offspring forever.” Then David left, and Jonathan went into the city.

Verse ConceptsCovenant ObligationsLoyaltyUnfaithfulness, To PeopleThe Witness Of GodGoing In Peace

They brought Ish-bosheth’s head to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here’s the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who intended to take your life. Today the Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

Yet you are not the one to build it;instead, your son, your own offspring,will build it for My name.”

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleA Place For God's Name

you offspring of Israel His servant,Jacob’s descendants—His chosen ones.

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofJacob, The Patriarch

Yet, you are not the one to build the temple,but your son, your own offspring,will build the temple for My name.”

Verse ConceptsSolomon's Temple

You will also know that your offspring will be manyand your descendants like the grass of the earth.

Verse ConceptsGrassLike Grass

Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field.They leave and do not return.

Verse ConceptsGrowing Up

You will wipe their descendants from the earthand their offspring from the human race.

Verse ConceptsParents Sin

‘I will establish your offspring foreverand build up your throne for all generations.’”Selah

Verse ConceptsPsalm InterjectionsThe Dynasty Of DavidSeedspreservation

His offspring will continue forever,his throne like the sun before Me,

Verse ConceptsThe SunChrist Reigning ForeverThe Dynasty Of DavidSun

Your servants’ children will dwell securely,and their offspring will be established before You.”

Verse ConceptsChildren BlessedProtection And Safety

You will not join them in burial,because you destroyed your landand slaughtered your own people.The offspring of evildoerswill never be remembered.

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsParents SinSins Of The Fathers

“I will rise up against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Verse ConceptsOblivionSurvivors DestroyedBabylon Left Desolate

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,and the offspring of your body like its grains;their name would not be cut offor eliminated from My presence.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted OutSand And Gravel

There is no one to guide heramong all the children she has raised;there is no one to take hold of her handamong all the offspring she has brought up.

But come here,you sons of a sorceress,offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!

Verse ConceptsHarlotsParents Sinwitcheswhores

You are to give a bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, who approach Me in order to serve Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Verse Conceptsdrawing near to GodSin OfferingSacrificing Cattle

He is not to marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin from the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTPriests, Function In Ot TimesVirginWidowsAvoid DivorceMarriage Controlled

Ephraim is struck down;their roots are withered;they cannot bear fruit.Even if they bear children,I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.

Verse ConceptsBlightdrynessPeople WitheredKilling Sons And Daughters

The Lord has issued an order concerning you:There will be no offspringto carry on your name.I will eliminate the carved idol and cast imagefrom the house of your gods;I will prepare your grave,for you are contemptible.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadFalse ReligionExile, in assyriaTemples, HeathenDestruction Of Satan's WorksNames Blotted OutAbandoning Idols

Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, amongst believersHusbandsLove, In RelationshipsMarriage, Purpose OfMonogamyUnity, God's Goal OfWivesDesign Of MarriageYouthful DevotionResidueRaising ChildrenGodly WomanSeedsRespecting Your Body

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

Verse ConceptsOffspringWidowsConceptionLack Of Sons

There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying, left no offspring.

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenFirst OnesDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsTaking A WifeFamily Death

The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.

Verse ConceptsSecond BeingThird PersonTaking A WifeSecond MarriageDeath Of A ChildFamily Death

So the seven left no offspring. Last of all, the woman died too.

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeath Of A Child

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.

Verse ConceptsOffspringWidowsConceptionQuestioning ChristLack Of Sons

Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David once lived?”

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidBethlehemJesus As Son Of DavidChrist's OriginMessiahScripture SaysJesus Birth

Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritFalse ReligionGoldSculptureSkillStonesEvolutionProofs Of God's ExistenceStone ItemsIdolatryDivineDivinityGodheadimaginationartistsimage

For it is clear that He does not reach out to help angels, but to help Abraham’s offspring.

Verse ConceptsChrist, The Seed OfHumility Of ChristAngelsfitnesshelping

By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the One who had promised was faithful.

Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfBarren WomendisabilitiesOffspringWeakness, SpiritualExploits Of FaithGod's Promise To AbrahamThe Promise Of A BabyPromises respectingHer Strengthfaith and strengthGod's FaithfulnessStrength And FaithWomen's Strengthsarahchildbearing

Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberStarsSeashoresOnly One PersonSand And Gravel

So the dragon was furious with the woman and left to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and have the testimony about Jesus.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTOffspringSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InSubsequent Witness To ChristSigns Of The TimesSpiritual Offspring

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