דּוֹר
dor (H1755)
generation
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# The Hebrew Word דוֹר (Dor): Generation and Lineage The Hebrew word דוֹר (dor) appears 167 times throughout the Hebrew Bible and carries the fundamental meaning of "generation." In its most basic sense, the word refers to a cohort of people living at the same time, typically those descended from a common ancestor or living within a similar span of years. This concept was essential to ancient Hebrew thought, which organized history and genealogy around successive generations rather than fixed chronological systems. Beyond its literal meaning of a age-group of people, the word's frequency and distribution suggest it served important functions in biblical narrative and legal texts. The term appears regularly in genealogical passages, historical accounts, and in formulations discussing the span of human life and continuity. Its 167 occurrences indicate that tracking generational succession—who came after whom, how long each generation lasted, and how practices or promises carried forward through time—was a central preoccupation of biblical writers. The word thus became a key mechanism for understanding both family descent and the unfolding of history itself. The prevalence of דוֹר across such a large number of biblical passages underscores how thoroughly the concept of generational identity permeated Hebrew thought. Whether marking time ("in that generation"), establishing lineage, or emphasizing continuity across centuries, the word served as a fundamental organizing principle
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This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”
Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”
He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’ ”
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”
So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”
“ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’ ”
which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’
“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
“Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
You shall make proclamation on the same day that there shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.
that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
“Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.
“The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.
If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, as you do, so he shall do.
For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so the foreigner shall be before Yahweh.
Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.
But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.
Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.
“ ‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
“Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
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