γενεά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< γίγνομαι), [in LXX chiefly for דּוֹר, דֹּר (Cremer, 148);]
1. race, stock, family (in NT, γέννημα, q.v.).
2. generation; †
(a) 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 9:4116:8, Ac 2:40;
(b) 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 11:1612:39, 41, 42, 4516:423:36, Mk 8:12, 38Lk 7:3111:29, 30-32, 50, 5117:25, Ac 13:36, He 3:10(LXX); τὴν γ. αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται, Ac 8:33(LXX);
(c) the period covered by the life-time of a generation, used loosely in pl. of successive ages: Ac 14:1615:21, 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.).