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Strong's G1074 · Greek

γενεά

genea · ghen-eh-ah'

from (a presumed derivative of) 1085; a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

γενεά (G1074)

43 γενεά , -ᾶς, ἡ ( γίγνομαι ), [in LXX chiefly for דּוֹר , דֹּר (Cremer, 148) ;] race, stock, family (in NT, γέννημα , q.v.). generation ; of the contemporary members of a family: pl., Mt 1:17 (cf. Ge 31:3 , מוֹלֶדֶת ); metaph., of those alike in character, in bad sense, Mt 17:17 , Mk 9:19 , Lk 9:41 16:8 , Ac 2:40 ; of all the people of a given period: Mt 24:34 , Mk 13:30 , Lk 21:32 , Phl 2:15 ; pl., Lk 1:48 ; esp. of the Jewish people, Mt 11:16 12:39 , 41 , 42 , 45 16:4 23:36 , Mk 8:12 , 38 Lk 7:31 11:29 , 30-32 , 50 , 51 17:25 , Ac 13:36 , He 3:10 (LXX) ; τὴν γ. αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται , Ac 8:33 (LXX) ; the period covered by the life-time of a generation, used loosely in pl. of successive ages: Ac 14:16 15:21 , Eph 3:5 , Col 1:26 ; εἰς γενεὰς καὶ γ. (= לִדוֹר וָדוֹר , al.), Lk 34:17 , al), Lk 1:50 ; εἰς πάσας τὰς γ. τοῦ αἰῶνος τῶν αἰώνων , Eph 3:21 (Ellic, in l.; DCG , i, 639f.). †

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