KJV Dictionary - generation
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GENERATION
GENERA'TION, n. The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals.
1. Production; formation; as the generation of sounds or of curves or equations.
2. A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age. Thus we say, the third, the fourth, or the tenth generation. Gen.15.16.
3. The people of the same period, or living at the same time.
O faithless and perverse generation. Luke 9.
4. Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. Gen.5.
5. A family; a race.
6. Progeny; offspring.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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