תּוֹלְדָהtôwlᵉdâh
generations, especially in genealogies = account of a man and his descendants
Pronunciation: to-led-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8435
Meanings
a. account of men and their descendants (Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:9; Genesis 10:1)
b. begettings of heaven and earth, account of heaven and earth and that which proceeded from them (Genesis 2:4)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 39 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:4 This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
- Genesis 5:1 This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself.
- 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 10:1 This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many children were born to them after the great flood.
- Genesis 10:32 Conclusion These are the clans that descended from Noah’s sons, arranged by nation according to their lines of descent. All the nations of the earth descended from these clans after the great flood.
- Genesis 11:10 This is the account of Shem’s family. Two years after the great flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
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).