Definition

a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons)

Etymology

from (a presumed derivative of) G1085 (γένος);

Word family

• γένος génos

How the KJV renders it

• age
• generation
• nation
• time

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.