Words the Bible translates as descendants
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- spermaσπέρμαseed: the living source from which a plant grows or a line of descendants comes
- zeraזֶרַעoffspring: the descendants a person leaves behind, held together as one ongoing line rather than counted as separate children.
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- seed: what a plant produces to reproduce itself, together with the sowing of it and the crop it yields.
- semen: the male emission from which a child is conceived.
- dorדּוֹרa generation: the people alive together in one stretch of time, and by extension the span of time they fill.
- osphusὀσφῦςthe loins: the lower back and hips where a belt is fastened, and, in the same breath, the part of a man's body his children are said to come from.
- toledahתּוֹלֵדוֹתthe line that comes from a named ancestor: the descendants, family record, or unfolding story that issues from them
- yalidיָלִידone born into a particular household or family line: a person identified by whose house or whose stock he was born to
- tse'etsaצֶאֱצָאwhat has come forth from a source: the children and descendants a person has produced, or the growth a stretch of ground sends up
- tsephi'ahצְפִיעָהoffshoots: the lesser branches of a family, the further relatives and dependents who hang on the head of a great house
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