דָּר
generation
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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1859 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 4:3 דָּ֥ר וְ/דָֽר n c ms conj + n c ms How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
- Daniel 4:34 דָּ֥ר וְ/דָֽר n c ms conj + n c ms At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
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.
דר — transliterated dâr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “generation.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). Debuting at Daniel 4:3, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside דור and דור. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1859 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
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).
- King James Version: Generation 4×
- American Standard Version: Generation 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Generation 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Generation 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1859 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1859 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1859 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1859 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- generation
Word origin
Derived from דור (dôwr) (H1755) — generation.
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.
דֹּר
- , v. דּוֹר
דָּר
- part. of דּוּר.
דָּר ²
- (דּוּר) row.—Pl. דָּרִין. Gen. R. s. 20 (explain. דַּרְדַּר) שהיא עשוייה ד׳ ד׳ because it consists of rows above rows (of the imbricated form of the artichoke).
דָּר ³
- 1. same, row, range, order. Keth. 60ᵃ בד׳ דנשי in a row of women. B. Kam. 117ᵃ בד׳ קמא in the first row of scholars. Ḥull. 11ᵃ top ד׳ דגברי a row of men. Ib. 47ᵃ בד׳ דאוני within the ranges of the lobes of the lungs. Ib. 53ᵃ בד׳ דסיחופיה in the order in which the claws of the lion’s paw appear when he assaults an animal. Snh. 97ᵇ ד׳ קמא דקמי וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. ד׳ דקמי; Ms. K. a. Ar. דָּרֵי, pl.) the first row (of righteous men) before the Lord; Succ. 45ᵇ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 9).—Kidd. 36ᵇ ר"י דדריה R. J. his class-mate; a. fr.—Pl. דָּרִין, דָּרֵי. Meg. 12ᵃ (expl. דַּר, Esth. I, 6) ד׳ ד׳ ranges of mosaics. Nidd. 20ᵃ תלתא ד׳ וכ׳ there are three ranges of leaves, and three leaves in each. Ber. 28ᵃ ד׳ חיוורתא rows of white hair. Ib. 62ᵇ (phonetic etymol. of קפנדריא) אַדָּ׳ וכ׳ אדמקיפנא in place of going around the rows of houses &c. Ab. Zar. 28ᵃ ומייתי דמא מבי דרי ed. (Ms. M. מבי ככי); Yoma 84ᵃ ואתי דמא מבי ד׳ (Ms. M. ומייתי ליה דמא מבי ככי ושיני) and he makes blood come (and blood will come) out from between the rows of teeth. [Ib. בככי דריה, v. דְּרָרָא.] [Taan. 3ᵇ; B. Mets. 73ᵃ; B. Kam. 113ᵇ בי ד׳, v. דָּרֵי.] e.g. Esther 1:6
- 2. a range of wood, pyre. Cant. R. to III, 4 ד׳ יקידא יקדת a burning pyre hast thou set on fire, v. יְקַד.—Pl. as above. Targ. Ps. LXXXII, 15 Ms. (ed. זרזי).
- 3. (v. דּוֹר) period, generation. Targ. Deut. XXXIII, 7. Targ. Job. VI, 17; a. fr.—Ḥag. 5ᵃ עד דמלי להו לד׳ until they have completed the period (lived the years allotted to them). Snh. 97ᵇ בכל ד׳ וד׳ (Ms. M.) in each generation; a. fr.—Pl. דָּרִין, דָּרַיָּא, דָּרֵי. Targ. Is. LI, 8 sq.—Targ. Ps. XLIX, 12 (Ms. דָּרָתָא); a. fr.—Ḥull. 93ᵇ; Yeb. 39ᵇ אכשור ד׳ have the generations (the present) grown better?
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H1859 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דָּ֥ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 4:3 | 2 |
| וְ/דָֽר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 4:3 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1859, 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.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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