Eneration
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
(2): ( n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
(3): ( n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
(4): ( n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
(5): ( n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
(6): ( n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
(7): ( n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Generation. In the long-lived patriarchal age, a generation seems to have been computed at 100 years, Genesis 15:16, compare Genesis 15:13 and Ecclesiastes 12:40, but subsequently, the reckoning was the same which has been adopted by modern civilized nations, namely, From thirty to forty years Job 42:16.
(Generation is also used to signify the men of an age or time, as contemporaries, Genesis 6:9; Isaiah 53:8, posterity, especially in legal formulae, Leviticus 3:17, etc.; fathers, or ancestors. Psalms 49:19.
