great-grandfather oor Afrikaans

great-grandfather

naamwoord

The father of a grandparent.

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oupagrootjie

The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.

Arthur Lindsay Williams, my great grandfather, was known and loved for his kind disposition.
Arthur Lindsay Williams, my oupagrootjie, was bekend en geliefd weens sy goedhartigheid.

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Before Lester’s mother left, she gave him a copy of a book written by his great-grandfather.
Voor my pa se ma vertrek het, het sy hom ’n eksemplaar van ’n boek gegee wat deur sy oupagrootjie geskryf is.

Noah’s great-grandfather Enoch also “kept walking with the true God.”
Noag se oupagrootjie Henog het ook “met die ware God bly wandel”.

RICHARD plows the same fields his great-grandfather farmed some 100 years ago.
RICHARD ploeg dieselfde lande waarop sy oupagrootjie sowat 100 jaar gelede geboer het.

Arthur Lindsay Williams, my great grandfather, was known and loved for his kind disposition.
Arthur Lindsay Williams, my oupagrootjie, was bekend en geliefd weens sy goedhartigheid.

By the time of Noah’s great-grandfather Enoch, people had become very ungodly.
Toe Noag se oupagrootjie Henog gelewe het, was mense alreeds baie goddeloos.

This is so unusual that most commentators identify his great-great-grandfather as faithful King Hezekiah.
Dit is so ongewoon dat die meeste kommentators sy groot-grootoupa as die getroue koning Hiskia identifiseer.

It had been bad in the days of his great-grandfather Enoch, another righteous man who walked with God.
Dit was al erg in die dae van sy oupagrootjie Henog, nog ’n regverdige man wat met God gewandel het.

It had been bad in the days of his great-grandfather Enoch, another righteous man who walked with God.
Dit was alreeds erg in die dae van sy oupagrootjie Henog, nog ’n regverdige man wat met God gewandel het.

Furthermore, the brother of Uz was Bethuel, the father of Isaac’s wife Rebekah and the great-grandfather of Joseph.
Bowendien het Us ’n broer gehad met die naam Betuel, die vader van Isak se vrou Rebekka en die oupagrootjie van Josef (Genesis 22:20-23).

My great-grandfather Lewis Waldrop and my grandfather Sim Waldrop were baptized as Bible Students in the late 1800’s.
My oupagrootjie, Lewis Waldrop, en my oupa, Sim Waldrop, is teen die einde van die negentiende eeu as Bybelstudente gedoop.

Jack began fishing at the age of 17, and he works in the same bay as did his great-grandfather.
Jack het op 17 begin kreef vang, en hy werk in dieselfde baai waarin sy oupagrootjie gewerk het.

Since his great-grandfather Levi was the half brother of Joseph, these details would be accurately known within his own family.
Aangesien sy oupagrootjie Levi die halfbroer van Josef was, sou sy eie familie deeglik vertroud gewees het met hierdie besonderhede.

Dad was born in a log cabin that my great-grandfather had built on the farm in the early part of the 19th century.
My pa is in ’n houthuis gebore wat my oupagrootjie in die vroeë deel van die 19de eeu op die plaas gebou het.

The articles on Alzheimer’s disease interest me because my great-grandfather suffered from this disease and so does a dear elderly Christian sister I know.
Die artikels oor Alzheimer se siekte was vir my interessant omdat my oupagrootjie aan hierdie siekte gely het, en ’n dierbare bejaarde Christensuster wat ek ken, het dit ook.

3 Exercising faith must have been as difficult for Noah and his family as it was for Enoch, Noah’s great-grandfather, who was discussed in the preceding article.
3 Dit was ongetwyfeld vir Noag en sy gesin net so moeilik om geloof te beoefen as wat dit was vir Henog, Noag se oupagrootjie, wat in die vorige artikel bespreek is.

On the other hand, his great- grandfather, Louis XIV, was persuaded by his Jesuit confessor to revoke the Edict of Nantes (a law that allowed French Protestants, or Huguenots, limited freedom of worship).
Sy oupagrootjie, Lodewyk XIV, is egter deur sy Jesuïetebiegvader oorreed om die Edik van Nantes (’n wet wat Franse Protestante, of Hugenote, ’n mate van godsdiensvryheid gegee het) te herroep.

He did not know how God’s promise to Abraham would work out, but he believed that Jehovah would greatly multiply the offspring of his grandfather, whose descendants would become a great nation.
Hy het nie geweet hoe God se belofte aan Abraham vervul sou word nie, maar hy het geglo dat Jehovah sy grootvader se nageslag grootliks sou vermeerder en dat sy nakomelinge ’n groot nasie sou word.

I GREW UP on my grandfather’s cotton farm in the state of Georgia, U.S.A., during the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
EK HET gedurende die Groot Depressie van die 1930’s op my oupa se katoenplaas in die staat Georgia, VSA, grootgeword.