ἡλικία

hēlikia · age, stature

Greek word · Strong’s number G2244 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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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

hē·li·ki·a

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 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.