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Lexicon :: Strong's H4138 - môleḏeṯ

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מוֹלֶדֶת
Transliteration
môleḏeṯ
Pronunciation
mo-leh'-deth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 867f

Strong’s Definitions

מוֹלֶדֶת môwledeth, mo-leh'-deth; from H3205; nativity (plural birth-place); by implication, lineage, native country; also offspring, family:—begotten, born, issue, kindred, native(-ity).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H4138 in the following manner: kindred (11x), nativity (6x), born (2x), begotten (1x), issue (1x), native (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H4138 in the following manner: kindred (11x), nativity (6x), born (2x), begotten (1x), issue (1x), native (1x).

  1. kindred, birth, offspring, relatives

    1. kindred

    2. birth, circumstances of birth

    3. one born, begotten, issue, offspring, female offspring

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מוֹלֶדֶת môwledeth, mo-leh'-deth; from H3205; nativity (plural birth-place); by implication, lineage, native country; also offspring, family:—begotten, born, issue, kindred, native(-ity).
STRONGS H4138: Abbreviations
מוֺלֶ֫דֶת noun feminine kindred, birth, offspring; — מ׳ construct Leviticus 18:9,11; suffix מוֺלַדְתִּי Genesis 24:4 3 times; etc.; plural suffix מוֺלְדוֺתַיִךְ Ezekiel 16:4; מֹלְדֹתַיִךְ Ezekiel 16:3; —
1. kindred Genesis 12:1 (|| ארצך, בית אביך), Genesis 24:4 (|| ארץ), Numbers 10:30 (|| id.), Genesis 31:3 (|| ארץ אבותיך), Genesis 43:7 (all J); || עַם Esther 2:10, Esther 2:20; Esther 8:6; especially אֶרֶץ מ׳ land of one's kindred Genesis 11:28; Genesis 24:7 (both J), Genesis 31:13 (E), Jeremiah 22:10; Jeremiah 46:16; Ezekiel 23:15; Ruth 2:11.
2. plural circumstances of birth, birth (figurative of origin of Jerusalem) מֵאֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי מְכֹרֹתַיִךְ וּמ׳ Ezekiel 16:3, compare Ezekiel 16:4.
3. (female) offspring, one born Leviticus 18:9 (twice in verse), begotten Leviticus 18:11 (all H); collective = issue, offspring מוֺלַדְתְּךָ אֲשֶׁר הוֺלַ֫דְתָּ Genesis 48:6 (P).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:28; 12:1; 24:4; 24:4; 24:7; 31:3; 31:13; 43:7; 48:6

Leviticus

18:9; 18:9; 18:11; 18:11

Numbers

10:30

Ruth

2:11

Esther

2:10; 2:20; 8:6

Jeremiah

22:10; 46:16

Ezekiel

16:3; 16:3; 16:4; 16:4; 23:15

H4138

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4138 matches the Hebrew מוֹלֶדֶת (môleḏeṯ),
which occurs 22 times in 21 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:28 - While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:4 - but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring[fn] I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:7 - They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?’ he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:30 - He answered, “No, I will not go; I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:10 - Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:20 - But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:6 - For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10 - Do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss; rather, weep bitterly for him who is exiled, because he will never return nor see his native land again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 - They will stumble repeatedly; they will fall over each other. They will say, ‘Get up, let us go back to our own people and our native lands, away from the sword of the oppressor.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.[fn]
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