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.
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Ages
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Colossians 1:26
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
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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).
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Strong's first: Ephesians 2:7Strong's last: Colossians 1:26
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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.
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Strong's first: Ephesians 3:5Strong's last: Ephesians 3:21
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Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
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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.
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