Properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
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H1755 names a generation or age, often a body of people living within a period, a succession across time, or the continuing reach of memory, covenant, judgment, and praise. The noun can identify one historical cohort, generations to come, an indefinite age, or repeated succession; it does not imply that every person in an age shares one character or responsibility.
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H1755 names a generation or age, often a body of people living within a period, a succession across time, or the continuing reach of memory, covenant, judgment, and praise. The noun can identify one historical cohort, generations to come, an indefinite age, or repeated succession; it does not imply that every person in an age shares one character or.
The BSB source-word alignment has 167 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include for the generations to come (27), generation (25), . . . (16), generations (15), to generation (8).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 6:9. Its strongest book concentrations include Psalms (59), Exodus (19), Isaiah (18), Leviticus (14).
H1755 names a generation or age, often a body of people living within a period, a succession across time, or the continuing reach of memory, covenant, judgment, and praise. The noun can identify one historical cohort, generations to come, an indefinite age, or repeated succession; it does not imply that every person in an age shares one character or responsibility.
In Judg. 2. 10, after the earlier generation dies, another generation arises that does not know the Lord or the works done for Israel. In Joel. 1. 3, joel commands the present hearers to tell the disaster to their children, who must tell it to the next generation. H1755 opens teaching on what one generation receives, practices, forgets, and hands on, while keeping each cohort accountable without stereotyping people by age.
It corrects generational blame that treats birth period as destiny and nostalgia that assumes an earlier generation was uniformly faithful, wise, or innocent. H1755 makes transmission urgent and humble: Judges records a generation that did not know the Lord or his works after the eyewitness generation died, Joel commands hearers to tell the devastation to children and succeeding generations, and Ecclesiastes places human generations within the repeated coming and going of mortal life.
For H1755, responsible teaching keeps lexical meaning, passage context, canonical synthesis, and present application distinguishable. The noun does not justify contempt for younger or older people, assign inherited guilt without personal and communal context, or promise that information alone will produce covenant faithfulness.
H1755 appears across passages that develop generations, memory, testimony, covenant continuity, failure to remember, mortality, transmission, judgment, and enduring divine kingship. For H1755, the immediate setting decides which part of the range is active, so the witnesses must remain distinct rather than being merged into one formula.
After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the Lord or the works that He had done for Israel.
After the earlier generation dies, another generation arises that does not know the Lord or the works done for Israel.
Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
Joel commands the present hearers to tell the disaster to their children, who must tell it to the next generation.
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
The Teacher observes that generations come and go while the earth remains, placing human lives within a larger temporal pattern.
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Hebrew word. Cyclical time concept: generation as both temporal age and inhabitable space; covenantal continuity across ancestral lineages.
Cyclical time concept: generation as both temporal age and inhabitable space; covenantal continuity across ancestral lineages.
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling BDB: period Usage: age, × evermore, generation, (n-) ever, posterity.
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H1755 makes transmission urgent and humble: Judges records a generation that did not know the Lord or his works after the eyewitness generation died, Joel commands hearers to tell the devastation to children and succeeding generations, and Ecclesiastes places human generations within the repeated coming and going of mortal life. H1755 names a generation or age, often a body of people living within a period, a succession across time, or the continuing reach of memory, covenant, judgment, and praise.
The selected witnesses keep the teaching concrete: Judg. 2. 10 shows that after the earlier generation dies, another generation arises that does not know the Lord or the works done for Israel. , while Joel. 1. 3 shows that joel commands the present hearers to tell the disaster to their children, who must tell it to the next generation.. Eccl. 1. 4 adds that the Teacher observes that generations come and go while the earth remains, placing human lives within a larger temporal pattern..
H1755 opens teaching on what one generation receives, practices, forgets, and hands on, while keeping each cohort accountable without stereotyping people by age. It corrects generational blame that treats birth period as destiny and nostalgia that assumes an earlier generation was uniformly faithful, wise, or innocent. A church teaching H1755 faithfully will name both the promise and the boundary carried by these contexts, attend to vulnerable hearers, and refuse to make the lexical item prove more than its passages support.
The noun does not justify contempt for younger or older people, assign inherited guilt without personal and communal context, or promise that information alone will produce covenant faithfulness.
Judg.2.10
H1755 is a Hebrew noun for a generation, age, period, or continuing cycle; singular, plural, construct phrases, and repeated formulas such as generation to generation establish its time horizon.
The Old Testament commands households and assemblies to remember Gods works across generations while recording repeated failures of transmission and obedience. The New Testament receives that history, calls each generation to repentance and witness, and forms a multi-generational people around Christ without making age cohort a new covenant identity.