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# genealogy

noun (genealogies)

«genealogy» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A genealogy is a list or history of who your ancestors were, going back through the family. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genealogy/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, a list of ancestors told by an old person to show where the family came from

### Examples

- He studied his family's genealogy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genealogy/#x1)
- Tuan recited his genealogy to the monks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genealogy/#x2)
- The genealogies were long and hard to remember. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genealogy/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

A written record of families and their descendants, used in Chronicles to show tribes, clans and who may serve.

**Interpretation.** The tradition values genealogies for showing who belonged to which tribe and who could be priests or Levites. Some rabbis also read them as showing God's care for each person.

### Examples

- These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy. (Writings 1CH.4.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/genealogy/#x1)
- And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty and six thousand men. (Writings 1CH.7.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/genealogy/#x2)
- And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah, (Writings 1CH.5.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/genealogy/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «genealogy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genealogy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«genealogy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/genealogy.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «genealogy» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/genealogy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«genealogy» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/genealogy.html) on Mova free.