How many years in a generation
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:13 pm
In Mathew, he states that there have been 14 generations between time periods. How many years would a Jew of the time consider a generation?
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The word "generation" (or "generations") occurs in the AV over 200 times. It is used to translate the Hebrew words dor (also translated "age"and "posterity") and toledot (in one place translated "birth") and the Greek words genea (meaning a begetting, birth, clan), genesis (source, origin, birth, creation), genos (race, family, stock), and gennēma (progeny,offspring, that which is begotten or born). Basically, therefore, generation has to do with creation, the act of begetting, but it has variant applied uses in both Testaments. For example: (1) it is used in relation to the time process, to denote an age or successive ages (so Gen 9:12; Ex. 30:10; Ps. 102:24); (2) in Matt. 24:34; Mark 13:30; Luke 21:32, it might mean the race, or those living at one time — either the time when the words were spoken, or when signs begin; (3) it is used in the sense of offspring, descendants from the same stock (so Acts 2:40; 1 Pet. 2:9)