- γενεά
- race, stock, family
- γενεά
- a generation
- a generation; if repeated twice or with another time word, practically indicates infinity of time.
- γενεά
- generation
- G:N-F
- γενεά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< γίγνομαι), [in LXX chiefly for דּוֹר, דֹּר (Cremer, 148) ;]
__1. race, stock, family (in NT, γέννημα, which see).
__2. generation;
__(a) of the contemporary members of a family: pl., Mat.1:17 (cf. Gen.31:3, מוֹלֶדֶת); metaph., of those alike in character, in bad sense,;Refs
Mat.17:17, Mrk.9:19, Luk.9:41 16:8, Act.2:40
__(b) of all the people of a given period:; pl., Luk.1:48; esp. of the Jewish people,Refs
Mat.24:34, Mrk.13:30, Luk.21:32, Php.2:15Refs
Mat.11:16 12:39, 41 42, 45 16:4 23:36, Mrk.8:12, 38 Luk.7:31 11:29, 30-32, 50, 51 17:25, Act.13:36, Heb.3:10" (LXX)>Refs ; τὴν γ. αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται, Act.8:33 (LXX);
__(with) the period covered by the life-time of a generation, used loosely in pl. of successive ages:
1) fathered, birth, nativity
2) that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family
2a) the several ranks of natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy
2b) metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character
2b1) esp. in a bad sense, a perverse nation
3) the whole multitude of men living at the same time
4) an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30 - 33 years
2) that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family
2a) the several ranks of natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy
2b) metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character
2b1) esp. in a bad sense, a perverse nation
3) the whole multitude of men living at the same time
4) an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30 - 33 years
γενεά
genea
ghen-eh-ah'
From (a presumed derivative of) G1085; a generation; by implication an age (the period or the persons)
KJV Usage: age, generation, nation, time.