hēlikia · age, stature

What it means

hēlikia (ἡλικία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “age, stature”.

Stature; also age, length of life.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Years lived; "he is grown": an adult.
2. How tall someone is.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• age ×3
• stature ×3
• length ×1
• span of life ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×3
• John×2
• Ephesians×1
• Hebrews×1

• Matthew 6:27

  And which of you, by worrying, can add a single cubit to his span of life?

• Luke 2:52

  And Jesus kept advancing in wisdom and stature and favor with God and people.

• Luke 12:25

  And which of you by worrying can add a cubit to the length of his life?

• Luke 19:3

  And he was trying to see who Jesus was, and he could not because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

• John 9:21

  but how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him; he is of age; he will speak for himself.”

• John 9:23

  For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

• Ephesians 4:13

  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Messiah,

• Hebrews 11:11

  By faith he also received power to beget, together with Sarah herself, even beyond the time of their age, since he considered faithful the one who had promised.