Genesis6:9 ESV These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
II דּוֹר also דֹּר, (160 ×):
• I דור
: Albright BASOR 163:50f: Arb. dahr a long time);
• MHb.;
• Ug. dr (|| pḫr, mpḫrt) collection (Pope 48, 60; Neuberg JNES 9:215ff; UTGl. 697; Aistleitner 786 generation);
• Ph. דר:
• family DISO 60;
• Arm. דָּר generation → BArm., Sam. BenH. 2:445, Mnd. (MdD 100b);
• Arb. daur period, OSArb. occasion;
• Eth. dār and dōr (loan < Heb. ?, Leslau 16);
• Akk. dāru eternity from darū to last, continue, (Ug. dūru, dāru, darītu PRU 3:218), dāru generation WSem. lw. AHw. 164b:
• דּוֹרִי, דּ(וֹ)רֹ(וֹ)ת, דֹּרֹת, דּוֹרִים Is 51:8 Ps 72:5 102:25 †, דֹּרֹתָיו, דֹּרֹתָם Ex 40:15, 4Q דורותם as in Sir 441 (Textus 2:99):
• דּוֹר(וֹ)תֵינוּ
1. sing. cycle, lifetime, descent, generation, (all the people who have grown up in the period from the birth of a man until the birth of his first son; Noth Überl. St. 21; a period with particular events and people, Ped. Isr. 1-2:490):
• הַדּוֹר הַזֶּה Gn 7:1 דּ׳ רְבִעִי 15:16, לְאֶלֶף דּ׳ as long as a thousand generations Dt 7:9, הַדּ׳ הָאַחֲרוֹן 29:21, הָרִאשׁוֹן Jb 8:8;
• with עִקֵּשׁ Dt 32:5, with צַדִּיק Ps 14:5;
• with אֲבֹתָיו 49:20, with בָּנֶיךָ 73:15, with עֶבְרָתוֹ Jr 7:29 etc.; דֹּר דֹּר Ex 3:15 and דֹּר וָדֹר Dt 32:7 (29 ×; Ug. drdr, ana dūrim, ana dāri dūri and simil., for ever, (PRU 3:218) Akk. dūr dāri, simil. in Mnd.) and דּוֹר לְד׳ Ps 145:4 generation after generation, דּוֹר דּוֹרִים Ps 102:25, cj. לְכָל־דּ׳ יָבוֹא Ps 71:18;
• group דּ׳ דֹּרְשָׁיו Ps 24:6;
• Is 53:8 ? fate (Arb. dāʾirat), alt. his contemporaries, cj. רִיבוֹ;
2. pl. generations (in Greek originally counted as forty years, from the time of Herodotus as thirty-three and a third years, Meyer Gesch. 3/2:207):
• אַרְבָּעָה דֹּרֹת Jb 42:16, דֹּרֹת בְּנֵי יִשְׂ׳ Ju 3:2, דֹּרוֹתֵינוּ אַחֲרֵינוּ future generations descended from us Jos 22:27f;
• דּ׳ עוֹלָמִים generations in times past Is 51:9;
• לְדֹרֹתָיו/תָמ/תֵיכָם according to his (their, your) generations = generation after generation descended from him (them, you) Lv 25:30 Gn 17:7, 12;
• בְּדֹּרֹתָיו among his contemporaries Gn 6:9, Sir 441 (alt.: in his turn);
— Ju 3:2 dl. (dittogr., Seeligmann VT 11:2142);
• Jr 2:21 ?, prp.
• וְלֹא יְרֵאתֶם Sept., Latina;
• Is 41:4 rd. הַקֹּרוֹת (→ v. 22).
Context - A generation is a bloodline, if the generation continues, the blood line is continued.