Ephesians 2:7
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Ages
Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
Colossians 1:26
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Read in context →Ephesians
3 occurrences in 3 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where ages appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
αἰών
aiṓn · ahee-ohn'
2 times translated as this KJV form124 total Strong's occurrences
properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future)
Strong's KJV usage: :--age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever, (beginning of the , while the) world (began, without end).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ephesians 2:7Strong's last: Colossians 1:26
Open full G165 profile →γενεά
geneá · ghen-eh-ah'
2 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons)
Strong's KJV usage: :--age, generation, nation, time.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ephesians 3:5Strong's last: Ephesians 3:21
Open full G1074 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
4 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
G165
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
G1074
Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
G1074
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
G165
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
age
AGE, noun [Latin aetas, or aevum. But these are undoubtedly contracted words.]
1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; as, the usual age of man is seventy years; the age of a horse may be twenty or thirty years; the age of a tree may be four hundred years.
2. That part of the duration of a being, which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
Jesus began to be about thirty years of age Luke 3:23.
3. The latter part of life, or long continued duration; oldness.
The eyes of Israel were dim for age Genesis 48:10.
4. A certain period of human life, marked by a difference of state; as, life is divided into four stages or ages, infancy, youth, manhood, and old age; the age of youth; the age of manhood.
5. The period when a person is enabled by law to do certain acts for himself, or when he ceases to be controlled by parents or guardians; as, in our country, both males and females are of age in twenty-one years old.
6. Mature years; ripeness of strength or discretion.
He is of age as him. John 9:21.
7. The time of life for conceiving children, or perhaps the usual time of such an event.
Sarah was delivered of a son when she was past age
Hebrews 11:11.
8. A particular period of time, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age the age of iron, the age of heroes or of chivalry.
9. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation and a succession of generations; as, ages yet unborn.
The mystery hid from ages. Colossians 1:26.
10. A century; the period of one hundred years.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.