דּוֹר
generation
also: period, habitation, dwelling fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1755 appears in the Book of Proverbs — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Proverbs
- Proverbs 27:24 לְ/ד֣וֹר דור וָ/דֽוֹר prep + n c ms n c ms conj + n c ms For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
- Proverbs 30:11 דּ֭וֹר n c ms There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.
- Proverbs 30:12 דּ֭וֹר n c ms There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, Yet are not washed from their filthiness.
- Proverbs 30:13 דּ֭וֹר n c ms There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
- Proverbs 30:14 דּ֤וֹר n c ms There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, And their jaws like knives, To devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, דור (dôwr) means “generation.” Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “period”, “habitation”, and “dwelling”. Spanning 127 verses in 17 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Psalms (29% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Genesis 6:9. Dig into 127-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1755 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 127
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 127 distinct verses.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #272
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 272 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 127 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 127 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 58 verses · 46%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 48 verses · 38%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 21 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Generations 49×, Generation 45×, All 11×
- American Standard Version†: Generation 37×, Generations 33×, Throughout your generations 21×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Generation 46×, Generations to come 30×, Generations 20×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Generation 94×, Generations 35×, Throughout your generations 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1755 across 165† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1755 across 164† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 35 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1755 across 149† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 17 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1755 across 178† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
10 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 10 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
דור I
- 1. period, age, generation, mostly poet.:
- a. of duration in the past, former age(s) דּוֹרוֹת עוֹלָמִים Is 51:9 (‖ ימי קדם); שְׁנוֹת דֹּר וָדֹר Dt 32:7 (song; ‖ ימות עולם); בְּדֹר וָדֹר ψ 90:1 (cf. v 2); מוֹסְדֵי דּוֹר־וָדוֹר Is 58:12 (‖ חרבות עולם); שֹׁמֲמוֹת דּוֹר וָדוֹר 61:4 (‖ id.) e.g. Isaiah 51:9
- b. usually of duration to come, future age(s), לְדֹר דֹּר Ex 3:15 (E; ‖ לעולם) cf. Pr 27:24 Kt (Qr לְדוֹר וָדוֹר; ‖ id.); מִדֹּר דֹּר Ex 17:16 (E), = מִדּוֹר לָדוֹר Is 34:10; לְדֹר וָדֹר ψ 10:6; 33:11 (‖ לעולם) 49:12; 79:13; 85:6; 102:13; 119:90; 135:13; 146:10 Jo 4:20 (all ‖ id.); ψ 89:2 (‖ עולם) 89:5 (‖ עד־עולם) 106:31 (‖ id.) Is 34:17 (‖ id.); ψ 77:9 (‖ לנצח); עַד־דֹּר וָדֹר ψ 100:5 (‖ לעולם) Is 13:20 (‖ לנצח) Je 50:39 (‖ id.); בְּכָל־דֹּר וָדֹר ψ 45:18 (‖ לעולם ועד) cf. Est 9:28; שְׁנוֹתָיו כְּמוֹ דֹר וָדֹר ψ 61:7 cf. שְׁנֵי דּוֹר וָדוֹר Jo 2:2 (‖ העולם); as modifying phrase מְשׂוֹשׂ דּוֹר וָדוֹר Is 60:15 (‖ גאון עולם); further דּוֹר דּוֹרִים ψ 72:5; 102:25; יְשׁוּעָתִי לְדוֹר דּוֹרִים Is 51:8 (‖ לעולם). e.g. Exodus 3:15
- c. apparently including both past and future בְּדוֹר דּוֹרִים שְׁנוֹתֶיךָ ψ 102:25; בְּכָל דּוֹר וָדֹר ψ 145:13; לְדוֹר וָדוֹר La 5:19. e.g. Psalms 102:25
- 2. of men living at a particular time (period, age), generation, as transitory דּוֹר הֹלֵךְ וְדוֹר בָּא Ec 1:4: specific. e.g. Ecclesiastes 1:4
- a. in the present, and (or) the past Gn 7:1 (J) Ex 1:6 (P) Nu 32:13 (JE) Dt 1:35; 2:14 Ju 2:10(×2) Is 53:8 (cf. Che crit. n.) Je 2:31; also ψ 95:10 Jb 8:8 Is 41:4. e.g. Genesis 7:1
- b. Ju 3:2 (present & future); cf. pl. דֹּרֹתָיו Gn 6:9 (i.e. his own gen. and those immediately contiguous, before and after). e.g. Judges 3:2
- c. especially of a future generation Gn 15:16 (JE), with numeral, cf. Dt 23:3, 4, 9; also Dt 29:21 ψ 48:14; 71:18; 78:4, 6; 102:19; 109:13 Jo 1:3 cf. ψ 22:31, 32 (Che crit. n.); of a succession of generations דּוֹר לְדוֹר יְשַׁבַּח מַעֲשֶׂיךָ ψ 145:4; בְּכָל־דּוֹר וָדוֹר Est 9:28; usually pl. לְדֹרֹת עוֹלָם Gn 9:12 (P); with num. לְאֶלֶף דּוֹר ψ 105:8 (‖ עולם) = 1 Ch 16:15 (‖ לעולם); Dt 7:9; v. further, of posterity, אַרְבָּעָה דֹּרוֹת Jb 42:16; usually pl. c. sf. Gn 17:7, 9, 12 Ex 12:14, 17, 42; 16:32, 33; 27:21; 29:42; 30:8, 10, 21, 31; 31:13, 16; 40:15 Lv 3:17; 6:11; 7:36; 10:9 (all P); 17:7; 21:17; 22:3; 23:14, 21, 31, 41, 43; 24:3; 25:30 (all H); Nu 9:10; 10:8; 15:14, 15, 21, 23, 38; 18:23; 35:29 Jos 22:27, 28 (all P). e.g. Genesis 15:16
- 3. generation characterized by quality or condition, class of men: דּוֹר עִקֵּשׁ crooked generation Dt 32:5 (song) cf. v 20 ψ 78:8(×2) Je 7:29; of diff. classes of wicked, Pr 30:11, 12, 13, 14 cf. ψ 12:8; of the righteous, as a class ψ 14:5; 24:6; 73:15 (דּוֹר בָּנֶיךָ) 112:2 (cf. 22:31 MT, but לדור to v 32 cf. supr. sub 2 c); so also דּוֹר אֲבוֹתָיו i.e. the dead ψ 49:20 (so most; yet v. infr. sub 4). e.g. Deuteronomy 32:5
- 4. dwelling-place, habitation Is 38:12 cf. דּוּר vb., so Saad Ki Ges De Che RVm (Ew life ‖ חַיַּי); so also ψ 49:20 De Witt, cf. CheOP 479. e.g. Isaiah 38:12
דור II loc. (Ph. דאר
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.m. Dt 32:5 period, generation, dwelling (cf. sub vb. supr.; also NH דּוֹר, Aramaic (incl. Biblical Aramaic) דָּר, ܕܳܪ, age, generation; Arabic دَوْرٌ gyrus, orbis, periodus; Sab. דר, one time, once, דרם דרם each once in a year DHM in MV)—abs. דּוֹר Gn 7:1 + 68 times; דֹּר Ex 3:15; + 36 textual; cstr. דּוֹר Dt 32:20 + 7 times, דֹּר Ex 3:15; sf. דּוֹרִי Is 38:12, דּוֹרוֹ Is 53:8; pl. דּוֹרִים ψ 72:5 + 2 times, דֹּרוֹת abs. Jb 42:16 Is 41:4; cstr. Ju 3:2; דּוֹרוֹת cstr. Is 51:9, דֹּרֹת Gn 9:12; sf. דֹּרֹתָיו Gn 6:9 Lv 25:30, דּוֹרוֹתֵינוּ Jos 22:27, דֹּרֹתֵינוּ v 28, דּרֹתֵיכֶם Gn 17:12 + 27 times, דֹּרֹתָם Gn 17:7 + 10 times;—
II. n.pr.loc. (Ph. דאר; cuneif. Du’ru KG121 COT on Jos 17:11) city in Manasseh, on Mediterr., S. of Carmel (9 Roman miles N. of Caesarea, cf. LagOnom. 115, 2nd ed. 149), דּוֹר Jos 12:23; דּוֹר וּבְנוֹתֶיהָ Ju 1:27 1 Ch 7:29 = דֹּאר וּב׳ Jos 17:11; נָפַת דּוֹר Jos 12:23 = נָפַת דֹּאר 1 K 4:11; נָפוֹת דּוֹר Jos 11:2 (cf. נפה); mod. Ṭanṭura WilsonLands of Bible ii. 249 vandeVelde Narrat. i. 333 BdPal 233 cf. Di Jos 11:2. On עֵין־דֹּר(דּוֹר) v. sub עַיִן.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דור (dûwr) (H1752) — to dwell.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דּוּר I
- 1. to form a circle or enclosure (v. Fl. to Levy Talm. Dict. I, p. 440ᵃ sq.).—Denom. דּוּר II, דּוֹר, דִּירָה &c.].
- 2. (denom. of דִּירָה) to reside, dwell. Ber. 8ᵃ לעולם יָדוֹר וכ׳ one must try to live in the same place with his teacher. Keth. 72ᵃ; a. fr. אין אדם דָּר וכ׳, v. כְּפִיפָה. Ib. 110ᵇ בל הדָּר בא"י whoever lives in Palestine.—Succ. 35ᵃ (ref. to hadar, Lev. XXIII, 40) א"ת הָדָר אלא הַדָּר דבר שֶדָּר וכ׳ ed. (Ms. M. הָדָר דבר הַדָּר וכ׳) read not hadar but haddar, something which remains on its tree from year to year (without withering); a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 23:40
- 3. to lodge, v. infra.
- 1. to cause a circuit; ד׳ שדה to let cattle change folds within a field, to collect manure in a field, by letting cattle live on it. Shebi. III, 4. Y. ib. 34ᶜ bot. מְדַיְּירִין בטובה you may let your cattle live on one’s field as a favor; a. e.
- 2. to lodge, v. infra.
- to lodge. Pesik. R. s. 3, beg. (play on דָּֽ֗רְ֗בָ֗ן֗) שמֵדִ֗יר̇ ב̇ינ̇ה בפרה it (the goad) causes understanding to dwell in the cow; Pesik. Baḥod. p. 153ᵃ שמורה (ed. O. שמדיר); Koh. R. to XII, 11 [read:] שהוא מְדַיֵּיר; Num. R. s. 14 שדָּר; Y. Snh. Tanḥ. B’haăl 15 דָּר אצל הפרה וכ׳.—[Num. R. l. c. the words of the wise דָּ֗רִ֗ים ב̇ינ̇ה וכ׳ lodge understanding with men.]
- to be manured by cattle living in folds, v. Piel. Shebi. IV, 2; M. Kat. 13ᵃ; a. e.
דּוּר
- , to dwell. Targ. Ps. CV, 23; a. fr.—Pes. 113ᵃ top (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 6).—Part. דָּאִיר, דָּיֵיר. Targ. Ps. LVII, 5 דָיְירָא Ms. (ed. חיירא).—Yeb. 52ᵃ דאיר בבי וכ׳ he resides with his father-in-law. B. Mets. 117ᵃ דהוו דָיְירֵי who occupied. Taan. 24ᵃ דָּיִירְנָא וכ׳ I live in a poor village.
- , דַּיֵּיר
- 1. to go around, to peddle (cmp. h. סָחַר). R. Hash. 9ᵇ (expl. דְּרוֹר, Lev. XXV, 10) כמְדַיֵּיר דיירא ומוביל וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. בי דיירא, Ar. s. v. דר 3: כי מדַוַּאר דריא) as a traveller is licensed to go around and carry his goods through the whole district. e.g. Leviticus 25:10
- 2. to deposit manure, v. preced.Pi.—B. Kam. 113ᵇ הני דדַיְּירֵי דירי Rashi (ed. דרי, Ms. R. דמְדַיְּירֵי דיירי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) those (gentiles) who manure fields for pay by letting cattle live on them in folds.
- 3. to place around (in a row, Rashi). Kidd. 81ᵃ ד׳ גולפי placed jugs around (as a partition).—
- *4. to round a person, to overtake. B. Kam. 92ᵇ; B. Mets. 107ᵇ (prov.) רהוט … ולא דַּוְּורוּהוּ וכ׳ Ar. (ed. מטו, אמטו) runners run but overtake not one who has taken a morning meal.
דּוּר II
- (preced., cmp. זֵר) rim, wreath. Kel. XVI, 3.—Pl. דּוּרִים. Ib.
*דּוּר III
- a stuffed bag. Lam. R. to I, 1 רבתי (חד כות׳ 2), v. אֵדֶר I. [Y. Snh. X, 28ᵃ top; Num. R. s. 14; 15; Tanḥ. B’haăl. 15, v. כַּדּוּר.]
דּוֹר
- [circle, period, cmp. גִּיל] generation, contemporaries. Arakh. 17ᵃ ד׳ לפי פרנס as the leader so the generation; a. v. fr.—ד׳ הפלגה the generation which witnessed the separation of races; ד׳ המבול which perished in the flood; ד׳ המדבר which perished in the desert, &c. Snh. X, 3 (107ᵇ, sq.); a. fr.—Pl. דּוֹרוֹת. Ib. 99ᵃ; a. fr.—לַדּוֹרוֹת for all time to come; permanent, opp. לשעה, הוראת שעה a temporary ordinance. Ib. 16ᵇ (ref. to Num. VII, 1) אותם במשיחה ולא לד׳ וכ׳ only they were installed with ointment, but not as a precedent for future installations; a. fr.—Men. 19ᵇ, a. e. ד׳ משעה לא ילפינן a permanent law cannot be derived from a special temporary legislation.—פסח ד׳ annual Passover celebration, opp. to פסח מצרים the one observed in Epypt. Pes. IX, 5; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 7:1
דּוֹר ²
- imperat. of נָדַר. Kidd. 41ᵃ; a. fr.
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Forms in the corpus
The 77 distinct written forms H1755 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 17 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1755, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 118 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 127 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 6:9
- Exodus 1:6
- Leviticus 3:17
- Numbers 9:10
- Deuteronomy 1:35
- Joshua 22:27
- Judges 2:10
- 1 Chronicles 16:15
- Esther 9:28
- Job 8:8
- Psalms 10:6
- Proverbs 27:24
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
