Definition

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

Etymology

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

Where 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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.