Môwledeth — H4138

Definition

feminine noun

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

1. kindred, birth, offspring, relatives
1. kindred
2. birth, circumstances of birth
3. one born, begotten, issue, offspring, female offspring

Usually translated as

kindred, nativity, born, begotten, issue, native

Origin

from H3205

• Derived from Yâlad (H3205)

Greek equivalents

• patrís (G3968)
• syngéneia (G4772)
• phylḗ (G5443)

Occurrences

Môwledeth occurs 22 times in 21 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (9), Leviticus (2), Numbers (1), Ruth (1), Esther (3), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (3)

• Genesis 11:28 — And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity (מוֹלַדְתּ֖וֹ), in Ur of the Chaldees.
• Genesis 12:1 — Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred (וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖), and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
• Genesis 24:4 — But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred (מוֹלַדְתִּ֖י), and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
• Genesis 24:7 — The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred (מֽוֹלַדְתִּי֒), and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
• Genesis 31:3 — And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred (וּלְמוֹלַדְתֶּ֑ךָ); and I will be with thee.
• Genesis 31:13 — I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred (מוֹלַדְתֶּֽךָ).
• Genesis 32:9 — And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred (וּלְמוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖), and I will deal well with thee:
• Genesis 43:7 — And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred (וּלְמֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֜נוּ), saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
• Genesis 48:6 — And thy issue (וּמוֹלַדְתְּךָ֛), which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
• Leviticus 18:9 — The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born (מוֹלֶ֣דֶת) at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
• Leviticus 18:9 — The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born (מוֹלֶ֣דֶת) abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
• Leviticus 18:11 — The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten (מוֹלֶ֣דֶת) of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
• Numbers 10:30 — And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred (מוֹלַדְתִּ֖י).
• Ruth 2:11 — And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity (מֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֔ךְ), and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
• Esther 2:10 — Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred (מֽוֹלַדְתָּ֑הּ): for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
• Esther 2:20 — Esther had not yet shewed her kindred (מֽוֹלַדְתָּהּ֙) nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
• Esther 8:6 — For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred (מוֹלַדְתִּֽי)?
• Jeremiah 22:10 — Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native (מוֹלַדְתּֽוֹ) country.
• Jeremiah 46:16 — He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity (מֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֔נוּ), from the oppressing sword.
• Ezekiel 16:3 — And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity (וּמֹ֣לְדֹתַ֔יִךְ) is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
• Ezekiel 16:4 — And as for thy nativity (וּמוֹלְדוֹתַ֗יִךְ), in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
• Ezekiel 23:15 — Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity (מוֹלַדְתָּֽם):