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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 - Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - Now the LORD said[fn] to Abram, “Go from your country[fn] and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that 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 to my kindred, and take 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 took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take 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, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, 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 made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:7 - They replied, “The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:30 - But he said to him, “I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:10 - Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:20 - Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:6 - For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10 - Weep not for him who is dead,
nor grieve for him,
but weep bitterly for him who goes away,
for he shall return no more
to see his native land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 - He made many stumble, and they fell,
and they said one to another,
‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people
and to the land of our birth,
because of the sword of the oppressor.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of 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 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.
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