דּוֹרdôwr
דּוֺר: period, generation, dwelling
Pronunciation: dore · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1755
Meanings
1. period, age, generation, mostly poetic
a. former age(s), id. (Isaiah 51:9; Deuteronomy 32:7; Psalms 90:1)
b. future age(s), id. (Exodus 3:15; Proverbs 27:24; Exodus 17:16)
2. generation, of men living at a particular time (period, age) (Ecclesiastes 1:4)
3. generation characterized by quality or condition, class of men (Deuteronomy 32:5; Deuteronomy 32:20; Psalms 78:8)
4. dwelling-place, habitation (Isaiah 38:12; Psalms 49:20)
דּוֺר: generation (Daniel 3:33; Daniel 4:31)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 167 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 6:9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.
- Genesis 7:1 When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
- Genesis 9:12 Then God said, “I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come.
- Genesis 15:16 After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”
- Genesis 17:7 “I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 17:9 Then God said to Abraham, “Your responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility.
See every passage
- Genesis 6:9, 7:1, 9:12, 15:16, 17:7, 17:9, 17:12
- Exodus 1:6, 3:15, 12:14, 12:17, 12:42, 16:32, 16:33, 17:16, 27:21, 29:42, 30:8, 30:10, 30:21, 30:31, 31:13, 31:16, 40:15
- Leviticus 3:17, 6:18, 7:36, 10:9, 17:7, 21:17, 22:3, 23:14, 23:21, 23:31, 23:41, 23:43, 24:3, 25:30
- Numbers 9:10, 10:8, 15:14, 15:15, 15:21, 15:23, 15:38, 18:23, 32:13, 35:29
- Deuteronomy 1:35, 2:14, 7:9, 23:2, 23:3, 23:8, 29:22, 32:5, 32:7, 32:20
- Joshua 22:27, 22:28
- Judges 2:10, 3:2
- 1 Chronicles 16:15
- Esther 9:28
- Job 8:8, 42:16
- Psalms 10:6, 12:7, 14:5, 22:30, 24:6, 33:11, 45:17, 48:13, 49:11, 49:19, 61:6, 71:18, 72:5, 73:15, 77:8, 78:4, 78:6, 78:8, 79:13, 85:5, 89:1, 89:4, 90:1, 95:10, 100:5, 102:12, 102:18, 102:24, 105:8, 106:31, 109:13, 112:2, 119:90, 135:13, 145:4, 145:13, 146:10
- Proverbs 27:24, 30:11, 30:12, 30:13, 30:14
- Ecclesiastes 1:4
- Isaiah 13:20, 34:10, 34:17, 38:12, 41:4, 51:8, 51:9, 53:8, 58:12, 60:15, 61:4
- Jeremiah 2:31, 7:29, 50:39
- Lamentations 5:19
- Joel 1:3, 2:2, 3:20
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).