noun · feminine

Greekἡλικία (hēlikia)

Biblang

hēlikias

Strong’sG2244

age, stature

stem hēliki-8 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἡλικία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἧλιξ, of the same age, mature), [in LXX: Ez 13:18 (קוֹמָה), Jb 29:18, Wi 4:9, Si 26:17, freq. in II-IV Mac;]

always of age or maturity; "a stage of growth whether measured by age or stature";

(a) age: Mt 6:27, Lk 12:25 (R, mg.), He 11:11;

(b) full age, maturity: Jo 9:21, 23, Eph 4:13.

2. stature: Lk 19:3 (Mt 6:27, Lk 12:25, AV, R, txt.; but the prevailing usage in LXX and π. favours the former meaning in these doubtful passages; cf., Ellic., ICC, AR, on Eph 4:13; Milligan, NTD, 74 f., and esp., MM, Exp., xv; e contra, Field, Notes, 6).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2244 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhay-lik-ee'-ah

maturity (in years or size)

Fromfrom the same as G2245;

King Jamesage, stature.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἡλῐκί-α,
Ionic dialect ἡλικίη, Doric dialect ἁλικία, ἡ, (ἧλιξ) time of life, age, ἤν πως ἡλικίην αἰδέσσεται ἠδ᾽ ἐλεήσῃ γῆρας Refs 8th c.BC+; τήνδ᾽ ἡ. ἀστῶν, i.e. their old age, Refs 4th c.BC+: accusative used adverbially, in age, νέος ἡλικίην Refs 5th c.BC+: so in dative, ἡλικίᾳ ἔτι τότε ὢν νέος Refs 5th c.BC+; προεληλυθότες ταῖς ἡ. Refs 5th c.BC+; also ὑπὸ τῆς ἡ. from our age, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ἐν τῇ αὐτῆ ἡ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἀχρεῖον τῆς ἡ. Refs; ὅταν.. τοῦ γεννᾶν ἐκβῶσι τὴν ἡ. Refs 5th c.BC+; πόρρω τῆς ἡ. to an advanced age, Refs; προήκων ἐς βαθὺ τῆς ἡ. Refs 5th c.BC+; προϊούσης τῆς ἡ, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ παρ᾽ ἡλικίαν νοῦς beyond one's age, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 prime of life, manhood, ἐν ἁλικίᾳ πρώτᾳ Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡλικίαν ἔχειν, εἰς ἡ. ἐλθεῖν, ἀφικέσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡλικίην ἔχειν with infinitive, to be of fit age for doing, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ἐν τῇ ἡλικίᾳ men of military age, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ καθεστηκυῖα ἡ. maturity, Refs 5th c.BC+; of women, womanhood, marriageable age, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 youthful passion, ἡλικίῃ καὶ θυμῷ ἐπιτρέπειν Refs 5th c.BC+
4 maidenhood, τὴν ἡ. οὐ καλῶς διαφυλάξασαν Refs 4th c.BC+
II as collective Noun,= οἱ ἥλικες, those of the same age, comrades, ὃς ἡλικίην ἐκέκαστο ἔγχεϊ Refs 8th c.BC+; especially those of military age, τῆς ἡ. ἀπούσης ἐν ταῖς ναυσί Refs 5th c.BC+; also, men of any age, παίδων τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν καὶ πάσης ἡ. Refs 5th c.BC+
III time, ταῦτα ἡλικίην ἂν εἴη κατὰ Λάϊον about the time of Laius, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV age, generation, ἐπὶ τῆς νῦν ἡ. Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸ τῆς ἡμετέρας ἡ. Refs 4th c.BC+; εἰς τὴν νῦν ζῶσαν ἡ. Refs 4th c.BC+; πολλαῖς ἔμπροσθεν ἡ. Refs 1st c.AD+
V of the body, stature, as a sign of age, NT+5th c.BC+ add a cubit to one's age (compare πήχυιος), NT; ἄνδρας ἡμισταδιαίους τὰς ἡ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; height of a pillar, Refs

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

stature3×of age2×age1×life1×span of life1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	hēlikias	hēlikiais
object accusative	hēlikian4×ἡλικίαν	hēlikiain
direct address vocative	hēlikiar	hēlikiair
of, belonging to genitive	hēlikiau2×ἡλικίας	hēlikiaiu
to, for dative	hēlikia2×ἡλικίᾳ	hēlikiai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

hēlikistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hēlikia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

8 occurrences, every one of them listed

hēlikian“of age”objectaccusative singular4×

Matthew 6:27… vu merimnarōntos dunotō prostithara epi tan hēlikian autou pēchon henon?… add a single hour to his life?

Luke 12:25“span of life”… ek vu merimnarōntos dunotō epi tan hēlikian autou prostithara pēchon?Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

John 9:21“of age”… ofthalmoin nis ouk oidanē; auton erōtavar, hēlikian echatō, autos peri heautou lalati.… opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”

John 9:23“of age”… houtem tois gonevois autou legala hoti Hēlikian echatō, auton eperōtavar.… was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”

hēlikiau“age”of, belonging togenitive singular2×

Ephesians 4:13… theou, eis andron teleion, eis metrem hēlikiau teu plērōmeu tou Christou,… to the full measure of the stature of Christ.

Hebrews 11:11… katabolan spermeu labata kai para kairon hēlikiau, epei piston hēgeta ton epangeleranton;… was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child …

hēlikia“stature”to, fordative singular2×

Luke 2:52Kai Iēsus prokoptate sofia kai hēlikia kai charita para theo kai anthrōpoi.And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and …

Luke 19:3… dunote apo tou ochlou hoti ta hēlikia mikros ate.… crowd because he was small in stature.