Dict: smith - GENERATION

GENERATION - G>@ - In the long-lived patriarchal age a generation seems to have been computed at 100 years, kjv@Genesis:15:16) comp. kjv@Genesis:15:13 and kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:40 But subsequently the reckoning was the same which has been adopted by modern civilized nations, viz. from thirty to forty years kjv@Job:42:16) (Generation is also used to signify the men of an age or time, as contemporaries, kjv@Genesis:6:9; kjv@Isaiah:53:8) posterity , especially in legal formulae, kjv@Leviticus:3:17) etc.; fathers, or ancestors. kjv@Psalms:49:19)