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Descend [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on the feet, on wheels, or by falling. A torrent descends from a mountain.

2. The rains descended, and the floods came. Matthew 7:25 .

3. To go down, or to enter.

4. He shall descend into battle and perish. Sam. 26.

5. To come suddenly; to fall violently.

6. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend

7. To go in; to enter.

8. He, with honest meditations fed, into himself descended.

9. To rush; to invade, as an enemy.

10. The Grecian fleet descending on the town.

11. To proceed from a source or original; to be derived. The beggar may descend from a prince, and the prince, from a beggar.

12. To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance. Thus, an inheritance descends to the son or next of kin; a crown descends to the heir.

13. To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.

14. To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense. Flavius is an honorable man; he cannot descend to acts of meanness.

15. In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.

Descend [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.]

Descend [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.

2. To enter mentally; to retire.

3. To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.

4. To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.

5. To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.

6. To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

7. To move toward the south, or to the southward.

8. To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

Descend [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.

Descendant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Any person proceeding from an ancestor in any degree; issue; offspring, in the line of generation, ad infinitum. We are all the descendants of Adam and Eve.

Descendant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Descendent.

Descendant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.

Descended [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Descendent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Descending; falling; sinking.

2. Proceeding from an original or ancestor.

Descendent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.

Descender [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who descends.

Descendibility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality of being descendible, or capable of being trnasmitted from ancestors; as the descendibility of an estate or of a crown.

Descendibility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

Descendible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be descended, or passed down; as, the hill is descendible

2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir; as a descendible estate.

Descendible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

2. That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.

Descending [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

Descending [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Descendingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a descending manner.

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Genesis 9:9

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Genesis 15:11

And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:13

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 15:16

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Genesis 15:18

In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

Genesis 17:6

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 17:7

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:8

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

Genesis 17:9

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.

Genesis 17:10

This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Genesis 17:16

And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”

Genesis 17:19

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Genesis 21:23

Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”

Genesis 22:17

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 25:4

And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.

Genesis 25:18

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

Genesis 26:4

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 26:24

And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.

and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

Genesis 28:4

And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 28:12

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.