Bible Dictionaries
Genesis
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
The first book of Moses; so called because it contains the genealogy of the patriarchs. The original name in Hebrew is Berescheth, beginning. It includes a period of near two thousand four hundred years, from the beginning of the world to the death of Joseph.
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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Genesis'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​pmd/​g/genesis.html. London. 1828.