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# נֶכֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5220

**progeny** — used 3 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

progeny [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5220/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫כֶד: progeny, posterity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5220/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] progeny, posterity, always c. נִין in standing phr. (Ecclus 41:5; 47:22c, both c. נין);—abs. לֹא נִין לוֹ וְלֹא נ׳ בְּעַמּוֹ Jb 18:19, cf. שֵׁם וּשְׁאָר וְנִין וְנ׳ Is 14:22; sf. לִי וּלְנִינִי וּלְנֶכְדִּי Gn 21:23 to me and to my offspring and to my posterity.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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: progeny (3).

## In the verses

[Job 18:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.19/#tree)

לֹ֘א נִ֤ין ל֣וֹ וְלֹא־נֶ֣כֶד בְּעַמּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין שָׂ֝רִ֗יד בִּמְגוּרָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* not posterity \[belongs\].to him and not progeny \[is\].among people his and there.\[is\].not a.survivor in sojourning-places his

*JPS 1917:* He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

[Isaiah 14:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.22/#tree)

וְקַמְתִּ֣י עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת וְהִכְרַתִּ֨י לְבָבֶ֜ל שֵׁ֥ם וּשְׁאָ֛ר וְנִ֥ין וָנֶ֖כֶד נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.rise.up on them the.utterance of.Yahweh of.hosts and I.will.cut.off to Babylon name and remnant and posterity and progeny the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and offshoot and offspring, saith the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5220.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5220/): 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).