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# מוֹלֶדֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4138

**kindred** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

kindred [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4138/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מוֹלֶ֫דֶת: n.f. kindred, birth, offspring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4138/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. kindred, birth, offspring;—מ׳ cstr. Lv 18:9, 11; sf. מוֹלַדְתִּי Gn 24:4 + 3 times, etc.; pl. sf. מוֹלְדוֹתַיִךְ Ez 16:4; מֹלְדֹתַיִךְ v 3;— kindred Gn 12:1 (‖ ארצך, ביתאביך), 24:4; 32:10 (‖ ארץ), Nu 10:30 (‖ id.), Gn 31:3 (‖ ארץ אבותיך), 43:7 (all J); ‖ עַם Est 2:10, 20 8:6; especially אֶרֶץ מ׳ land of one’s kindred Gn 11:28; 24:7 (both J), 31:13 (E), Je 22:10; 46:16 Ez 23:15; Ru 2:11. pl. circumstances of birth, birth (fig. of origin of Jerus.) מְכֹרֹתַיִךְ וּמ׳ מֵאֶרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִי Ez 16:3, cf. v 4. (female) offspring, one born Lv 18:9(×2), begotten v 11 (all H); coll. = issue, offspring מוֹלַדְתְּךָ אֲשֶׁר הוֹלַ֫דְתָּ Gn 48:6 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: kindred (8); one born (3); birth(s) (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 11:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.28/#tree)

וַיָּ֣מָת הָרָ֔ן עַל־פְּנֵ֖י תֶּ֣רַח אָבִ֑יו בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מוֹלַדְתּ֖וֹ בְּא֥וּר כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Haran on the.face of.Terah father his in the.land his.kindred his in Ur of.\[the\].Chaldeans

*JPS 1917:* And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

[Leviticus 18:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.18.11/#tree)

עֶרְוַ֨ת בַּת־אֵ֤שֶׁת אָבִ֙יךָ֙ מוֹלֶ֣דֶת אָבִ֔יךָ אֲחוֹתְךָ֖ הִ֑וא לֹ֥א תְגַלֶּ֖ה עֶרְוָתָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.nakedness of.the.daughter of.the.wife your.father your one.born your.father your sister \[is\].your she not you.will.uncover nakedness her

*JPS 1917:* The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4138.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4138/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).