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.

Bibliography Information
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.