genealogy

noun (genealogies)

«genealogy» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

A genealogy is a list or history of who your ancestors were, going back through the family. tree →

In the lessons

in tales, a list of ancestors told by an old person to show where the family came from

Examples

He studied his family's genealogy. tree →
Tuan recited his genealogy to the monks. tree →
The genealogies were long and hard to remember. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

A written record of families and their descendants, used in Chronicles to show tribes, clans and who may serve.

Interpretation. The tradition values genealogies for showing who belonged to which tribe and who could be priests or Levites. Some rabbis also read them as showing God's care for each person.

Examples

These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy. (Writings 1CH.4.33, JPS 1917) tree →
And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty and six thousand men. (Writings 1CH.7.40, JPS 1917) tree →
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah, (Writings 1CH.5.7, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «genealogy» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«genealogy» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «genealogy» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«genealogy» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.

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