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γενεά
geneá · Greek · Strong's G1074 · 43 occurrences
The KJV renders 14 different Hebrew and Greek words as “time”
What it means
a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons)
from (a presumed derivative of) G1085 (γένος);
How the KJV renders it
age, generation, nation, time
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“time”
“age”
Answers that weigh this word
- Is the seventh-day Sabbath binding on Gentiles?
- Is the Christian Sabbath Saturday or Sunday?
- Is the rapture biblical?
- Are the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonical) books inspired scripture?
- What happens to those who never heard the gospel?
- Are the clean and unclean food laws of Leviticus 11 binding on Christians?
Where it appears
43 occurrences in the Greek text, first 37 verses shown.
Acts 2:40 · N-GSF
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
Acts 8:33 · N-ASF
In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”
Acts 13:36 · N-DSF
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
Acts 14:16 · N-DPF
who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 15:21 · N-GPF
For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
Colossians 1:26 · N-GPF
the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
Ephesians 3:5 N-DPFEphesians 3:21 N-APFHebrews 3:10 N-DSFLuke 1:48 N-NPFLuke 1:50 N-APFLuke 7:31 N-GSFLuke 9:41 N-VSFLuke 11:29 N-NSFLuke 11:30 N-DSFLuke 11:31 N-GSFLuke 11:32 N-GSFLuke 11:50 N-GSFLuke 11:51 N-GSFLuke 16:8 N-ASFLuke 17:25 N-GSFLuke 21:32 N-NSFMatthew 1:17 N-NPFMatthew 11:16 N-ASFMatthew 12:39 N-NSFMatthew 12:41 N-GSFMatthew 12:42 N-GSFMatthew 12:45 N-DSFMatthew 16:4 N-NSFMatthew 17:17 N-VSFMatthew 23:36 N-ASFMatthew 24:34 N-NSFMark 8:12 N-DSFMark 8:38 N-DSFMark 9:19 N-VSFMark 13:30 N-NSFPhilippians 2:15 N-GSF
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