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|txtha=γενεάς, ἡ (ΓΑΝΩ, [[γίνομαι]] (crf. [[Curtius]], p. 610)); the Sept. [[often]] for דּור; in Greek writings from [[Homer]] [[down]];<br /><b class="num">1.</b> 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]]).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[passively]], [[that]] [[which]] has been begotten, men of the [[same]] [[stock]], a [[family]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[properly]], as [[early]] as [[Homer]]; equivalent to מִשְׁפָּחַה, 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]]: ἑβδόμῃ [[γενεά]] [[οὗτος]] ἐστιν [[ἀπό]] [[τοῦ]] πρώτου, [[Philo]], vit. Moys. i. § 2).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> [[metaphorically]], a [[race]] of men [[very]] [[like]] [[each]] [[other]] in endowments, pursuits, [[character]]; and [[especially]] in a [[bad]] [[sense]] a [[perverse]] [[race]]: the [[whole]] [[multitude]] of men [[living]] at the [[same]] [[time]]: [[πᾶσαι]] αἱ γενεαί); ἄνθρωποι τῆς γενεάς [[ταύτης]], [[ἄνδρες]] τῆς γενεάς [[ταύτης]], [[τήν]] δέ γενεάν [[αὐτοῦ]] [[τίς]] διηγήσεται, [[who]] [[can]] [[describe]] the [[wickedness]] of the [[present]] [[generation]], Sept.) ([[but]] cf. Meyer, at the [[passage]]).<br /><b class="num">4.</b> an [[age]] (i. e. the [[time]] [[ordinarily]] [[occupied]] by [[each]] [[successive]] [[generation]]), the [[space]] of from 30 to 33years ([[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: Winer s Grammar, § 31,9a.; Buttmann, 186 (161)); παρῳχημέναις γενεαῖς in ages [[gone]] by, [[ἀπό]] [[τῶν]] γενεῶν for ages, [[since]] the generations began, ἐκ γενεῶν ἀρχαίων from the generations of [[old]], from [[ancient]] times [[down]], [[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]], 1a.): R L (דּורִים לְדור, [[εἰς]] γενεάς καί γενεάς [[unto]] generations and generations, ibid. T Tr WH equivalent to וָדור לְדור, Sept.; ([[add]], [[εἰς]] πάσας τάς γενεάς [[τοῦ]] αἰῶνος [[τῶν]] αἰώνων, [[γενεά]] is used of a [[century]] in Keim, iii. 206 (v. 245 English translation)).

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