דּוֹר
dôwr · dore
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
Lexicon
Derivation: or (shortened) דֹּר; from H1752 (דּוּר);
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
- properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation
- also, a dwelling
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: age, [idiom] evermore, generation, (n-) ever, posterity.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
The doorway, the way in that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דּוֹר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
167 occurrences · 167 OT · 0 NT · 80 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- generations29 · 23%
- generation14 · 11%
- throughout your generations9 · 7%
- to generation8 · 6%
- in your generations7 · 6%
- from generation6 · 5%
- of many5 · 4%
- throughout their generations5 · 4%
- to all5 · 4%
- in their generations4 · 3%
- there is a generation4 · 3%
- unto all4 · 3%
- for your generations3 · 2%
- until all the generation2 · 2%
- among your generations2 · 2%
- the generation2 · 2%
- for evermore2 · 2%
- throughout all2 · 2%
- to the generation2 · 2%
- in all2 · 2%
- for i shall never2 · 2%
- in from generation2 · 2%
- the generations2 · 2%
- and all that generation1 · 1%
- in his generations1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.