γενεά

geneav geneav,
geneav",
hJ (
GENW,
givnomai (crf. Curtius, p. 610)); the Septuagint often for r/D; 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 hj'P;v]mi, , etc.
swv/zein
!Racabhn
kaiv
thvn
geneavn
aujth'", Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 5. the several ranks in a natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy: (
eJbdovmh/
geneav
ou|to"
ejstin
ajpov
tou'
prwvtou, Philo, vit. Moys. i. sec. 2). b. metaphorically, a race of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character; and especially in a bad sense a perverse race: ; ; ; ; ().3. the whole multitude of men living at the same time: ; ; (
pa'sai
aiJ
geneaiv); ; ; used especially of the Jewish race living at one and the same period: ; ,f,45; ; ; ,; f,32,50f; ; ; ;
a[nqrwpoi
th'"
geneav"
tauvth", ;
a[ndre"
th'"
geneav"
tauvth", ;
thvn
dev
geneavn
aujtou'
tiv"
dihghvsetai, who can describe the wickedness of the present generation, (from the Septuagint) (but cf. Meyer, at the passage).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
oJ
crovno",
ejn
w|/
gennwnta
parevcei
tovn
ejx
aujtou'
gegennhmevnon
oJ
gennhsa" (Plutarch, the passage cited); in the N. T. common in plural: (Winer's Grammar, sec. 31, 9 a.; Buttmann, 186 (161));
parw/chmevnai"
geneai'" in ages gone by, ;
ajpov
tw'n
genew'n for ages, since the generations began, ;
ejk
genew'n
ajrcaivwn from the generations of old, from ancient times down, ;
eij"
geneav"
genew'n unto generations of generations, through all ages, forever (a phrase which assumes that the longer ages are made up of shorter; see
aijwvn, 1 a.): R L (!yrI/D r/dl], );
eij"
geneav"
kaiv
geneav" unto generations and generations, ibid. T Tr WH equivalent to r/dw: r/dl], f; ; very often in the Septuagint; (add,
eij"
pavsa"
tav"
geneav"
tou'
aijw'no"
tw'n
aijwvnwn, , cf. Ellicott at the passage) (
geneav is used of a century in , cf. Knobel at the passage, and on the senses of the word see the full remarks of Keim, iii. 206 (v. 245 English translation)).*