Bible Dictionary
GENDER
To gender means to bring forth, beget, or produce. In biblical usage it can describe giving birth, the breeding of animals, or the producing of strife and bondage.
Definition
To gender means to bring forth, beget, produce, or cause something to arise. It may refer to birth, the breeding of animals, or the production of strife and bondage.
Biblical Usage
The Bible uses the word for the birth of frost, the breeding of cattle, and the production of strife. In Galatians, Sinai is described as bearing children unto bondage, while Timothy is warned against disputes that gender strifes.
Historical Background
“Gender” is an older abbreviation of “engender.” Revised translations often use “give birth,” “bear,” or “beget,” according to the context.
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>jen'-der (yaladh, `abhar; gennao): "Gender" is an abbreviation of "engender." In Job 38:29 yaladh (common for "to bear," "to bring forth") is translated "gender" (after Wycliff), the Revised Version (British and American) "The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?" margin "given it birth." In 21:10 we have `abhar (either the Piel of `abhar, "to pass over," etc., or of a separate word meaning "to bear," "to be fruitful"), translated "gendereth," "Their bull gendereth, and faileth not"; in Le 19:19, rabha', "to lie down with," is used of cattle gendering. In Ga 4:24 the King James Version we have "Mount Sinai, which gendereth (gennoa, "to beget") to bondage," the Revised Version (British and American) "bearing children unto bondage" (like Hagar, Abraham's bondwoman), and in 2Ti 2:23, which "gender strifes," i.e. beget them.</p><p>W. L. Walker</p>