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descendant
Related Ideas:
descend, posterity
Definition:
A "descendant" is someone who is a direct blood relative of someone else further back in history.
- For example, Abraham was a descendant of Noah.
- A person's descendants are his children, grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and so on. Jacob's descendants were the twelve tribes of Israel.
- The phrase "descended from" is another way of saying "a descendant of" as in "Abraham was descended from Noah." This could also be translated as "from the family line of."
- A person's "posterity" is all of his descendants.
(See also: Abraham, ancestor, Jacob, Noah, twelve tribes of Israel)
Bible References:
Examples from the Bible stories:
- 02:09 "The woman's descendant will crush your head, and you will wound his heel."
- 04:09 "I give the land of Canaan to your descendants."
- 05:10 "Your descendants will be more than the stars in the sky."
- 17:07 "Someone from your family will always rule as king over Israel, and the Messiah will be one of your descendants!"
- 18:13 The kings of Judah were descendants of David.
- 21:04 God promised King David that the Messiah would be one of David's own descendants.
- 48:13 God promised David that the Messiah would be one of his descendants. Jesus, the Messiah, was that special descendant of David.
Word Data:
- Strong's: H319, H1004, H1121, H1247, H1755, H2232, H2233, H3205, H3211, H3318, H3409, H4294, H5220, H6631, H6849, H7611, H8435, G1074, G1085, G3624, G4690
Forms Found in the English ULB:
clans descended, descend, descendant, descendants, descended, posterity