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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4138

מוֹלֶדֶת

moledethmo-leh'-deth

relatives

22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: môwledeth

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4138is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4138

nativity (plural birth-place); by implication, lineage, native country; also offspring, family

The King James renders it: begotten, born, issue, kindred, native(-ity).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

moledeth is rendered "relatives". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:28During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Genesis 11:28מוֹלַדְתּ֖וֹ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's twenty-two uses are in Genesis.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • kindred my4
  • and births your2
  • and to kindred your2
  • kindred her2
  • kindred his2
  • kindred your2
  • one born of2
  • and from kindred your1
  • and of kindred our1
  • and offspring your1
  • kindred our1
  • kindred their1

and 1 more, 22 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • מוֹלֶ֣דֶת3
  • מוֹלַדְתִּ֖י2
  • וּלְמוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖1
  • וּלְמוֹלַדְתֶּ֑ךָ1
  • וּלְמֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֜נוּ1
  • וּמוֹלְדוֹתַ֗יִךְ1
  • וּמוֹלַדְתְּךָ֛1
  • וּמֹ֣לְדֹתַ֔יִךְ1
  • וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖1
  • מֽוֹלַדְתָּ֑הּ1
  • מֽוֹלַדְתָּהּ֙1
  • מוֹלַדְתּ֖וֹ1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HNcfsc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3HC/R/Ncfsc/Sp2ms
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcfsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HC/Ncfpc/Sp2fs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3fs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HC/R/Ncfsc/Sp1bp
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HNcfsc/Sp1bp
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2fs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2ms
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp3mp

Genesis

nine uses
  • During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

    Genesis 11:28

    • מוֹלַדְתּ֖וֹmoladtonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: kindred his
  • Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

    Genesis 12:1

    • וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖umimoladtekhaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and from kindred your
  • but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

    Genesis 24:4

    • מוֹלַדְתִּ֖יmoladtinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: kindred my
  • The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.

    Genesis 24:7

    • מֽוֹלַדְתִּי֒moladtinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: kindred my
  • Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

    Genesis 31:3

    • וּלְמוֹלַדְתֶּ֑ךָulemoladtekhaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and to kindred your
  • I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”

    Genesis 31:13

    • מוֹלַדְתֶּֽךָ׃moladtekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: kindred your
  • Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’

    Genesis 32:9

    • וּלְמוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖ulemoladtekhaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and to kindred your
  • They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”

    Genesis 43:7

    • וּלְמֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֜נוּulemoladtenuconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: and of kindred our
  • Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.

    Genesis 48:6

    • וּמוֹלַדְתְּךָ֛umoladtekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and offspring your

Leviticus

three uses
  • You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

    Leviticus 18:9

    • מוֹלֶ֣דֶתmoledetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: one born of
    • מוֹלֶ֣דֶתmoledetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: one born
  • You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

    Leviticus 18:11

    • מוֹלֶ֣דֶתmoledetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: one born of

Numbers

one use
  • “I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

    Numbers 10:30

    • מוֹלַדְתִּ֖יmoladtinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: kindred my

Ruth

one use
  • Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

    Ruth 2:11

    • מֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֔ךְmoladtekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: kindred your

Esther

three uses
  • Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.

    Esther 2:10

    • מֽוֹלַדְתָּ֑הּmoladtahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: kindred her
  • Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.

    Esther 2:20

    • מֽוֹלַדְתָּהּ֙moladtahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: kindred her
  • For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

    Esther 8:6

    • מוֹלַדְתִּֽי׃ סmoladtinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: kindred my

Jeremiah

two uses
  • Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.

    Jeremiah 22:10

    • מוֹלַדְתּֽוֹ׃ סmoladtonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: kindred his
  • They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’

    Jeremiah 46:16

    • מֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֔נוּmoladtenunoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: kindred our

Ezekiel

three uses
  • and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

    Ezekiel 16:3

    • וּמֹ֣לְדֹתַ֔יִךְumoledotayikhconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and births your
  • On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

    Ezekiel 16:4

    • וּמוֹלְדוֹתַ֗יִךְumoldotayikhconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and births your
  • wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

    Ezekiel 23:15

    • מוֹלַדְתָּֽם׃moladtamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: kindred their

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Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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