Strong's Concordance genea: race, family, generation Original Word: γενεά, ᾶς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: genea Phonetic Spelling: (ghen-eh-ah') Definition: race, family, generation Usage: a generation; if repeated twice or with another time word, practically indicates infinity of time. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ginomai Definition race, family, generation NASB Translation generation (32), generations (10), kind (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1074: γενεάγενεά, γενεάς, ἡ (ΓΑΝΩ, γίνομαι (crf. Curtius, p. 610)); the Sept. often for דּור; in Greek writings from Homer down; 1. a begetting, birth, nativity: Herodotus 3, 33; Xenophon, Cyril 1, 2, 8, etc.; (others make the collective sense the primary significance, see Curtius as above). 2. passively, that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family; a. properly, as early as Homer; equivalent to מִשְׁפָּחַה, Genesis 31:3, etc. σῴζειν Ρ᾽αχαβην καί τήν γενεάν αὐτῆς, Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 5. the several ranks in a natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy: Matthew 1:17 (ἑβδόμῃ γενεά οὗτος ἐστιν ἀπό τοῦ πρώτου, Philo, vit. Moys. i. § 2). b. metaphorically, a race of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character; and especially in a bad sense a perverse race: Matthew 17:17; Mark 9:19; Luke 9:41; Luke 16:8; (Acts 2:40). 3. the whole multitude of men living at the same time: Matthew 24:34; Mark 13:30; Luke 1:48 (πᾶσαι αἱ γενεαί); 4. an age (i. e. the time ordinarily occupied by each successive generation), the space of from 30 to 33 years (Herodotus 2, 142, et al.; Heraclitus in Plutarch, def. orac. c. 11), or ὁ χρόνος, ἐν ᾧ γεννωντα παρέχει τόν ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεγεννημένον ὁ γεννησας (Plutarch, the passage cited); in the N. T. common in plural: Ephesians 3:5 (Winers Grammar, § 31, 9 a.; Buttmann, 186 (161)); παρῳχημέναις γενεαῖς in ages gone by, Acts 14:16; ἀπό τῶν γενεῶν for ages, since the generations began, Colossians 1:26; ἐκ γενεῶν ἀρχαίων from the generations of old, from ancient times down, Acts 15:21; εἰς γενεάς γενεῶν unto generations of generations, through all ages, forever (a phrase which assumes that the longer ages are made up of shorter; see αἰών, 1 a.): Luke 1:50 R L (דּורִים לְדור, Isaiah 51:8); εἰς γενεάς καί γενεάς unto generations and generations, ibid. T Tr WH equivalent to וָדור לְדור, Psalm 89:2; Isaiah 34:17; very often in the Sept.; (add, εἰς πάσας τάς γενεάς τοῦ αἰῶνος τῶν αἰώνων, Ephesians 3:21, cf. Ellicott at the passage) (γενεά is used of a century in Genesis 15:16, cf. Knobel at the passage, and on the senses of the word see the full remarks of Keim, iii. 206 (v. 245 English translation)). From (a presumed derivative of) genos; a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons) -- age, generation, nation, time. see GREEK genos Englishman's Concordance Matthew 1:17 N-NFPGRK: οὖν αἱ γενεαὶ ἀπὸ Ἀβραὰμ NAS: all the generations from Abraham KJV: So all the generations from Abraham INT: Therefore the generations from Abraham Matthew 1:17 N-NFP Matthew 1:17 N-NFP Matthew 1:17 N-NFP Matthew 11:16 N-AFS Matthew 12:39 N-NFS Matthew 12:41 N-GFS Matthew 12:42 N-GFS Matthew 12:45 N-DFS Matthew 16:4 N-NFS Matthew 17:17 N-VFS Matthew 23:36 N-AFS Matthew 24:34 N-NFS Mark 8:12 N-NFS Mark 8:12 N-DFS Mark 8:38 N-DFS Mark 9:19 N-VFS Mark 13:30 N-NFS Luke 1:48 N-NFP Luke 1:50 N-AFP Luke 1:50 N-AFP Luke 7:31 N-GFS Luke 9:41 N-VFS Luke 11:29 N-NFS Luke 11:29 N-NFS Strong's Greek 1074 |
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