ἑκᾰτοντα-έτης G1541
One hundred years old; describing someone who has reached the age of one hundred years
This compound adjective means 'one hundred years old,' describing someone who has completed a century of life. In Romans 4:19, Paul notes that Abraham was 'about one hundred years old' when considering his body's inability to father children naturally, before Isaac's miraculous conception. The term combines the number 'one hundred' (ἑκατόν) with 'years' (ἔτος), creating an age descriptor. The multilingual evidence is straightforward (Spanish 'de cien años', French 'cent ans', German 'hundertjährig'), all literally rendering 'hundred years old.'
Senses
1. sense 1 — Romans 4:19 describes Abraham as 'about one hundred years old (ἑκατονταέτης)' when facing his aged body's natural inability to produce offspring, highlighting the miracle of Isaac's birth. All target languages render this transparently as 'one hundred years old' (Spanish 'de cien años', French 'cent ans', German 'hundertjährig'). Classical usage applied to both persons and time periods of centenarian duration. Paul uses Abraham's advanced age to emphasize faith's triumph over physical impossibility. 1×
AR["مِائَةَ-سَنَةٍ"]·ben["শত-বর্ষীয়"]·DE["hundertjaehrig"]·EN["hundred-years-old"]·FR["cent-ans"]·heb["כְּבֶן-מֵאָה"]·HI["सौ-वर्ष-का"]·ID["seratus-tahun"]·IT["centenario"]·jav["kinten-kinten-satus-taun"]·KO["백-세"]·PT["de-cem-anos"]·RU["столетним"]·ES["de-cien-años"]·SW["karibu-miaka-mia"]·TR["yüz-yaşında"]·urd["سو-سال"]
Related Senses
H3117 1. day, specific time (2231×)H5704 1. until, unto, as far as (1238×)H8141 1. year, unit of time (880×)H6258 1. and now (421×)G2250 1. day (388×)H5750 1. again, more, further (288×)H5769 1. forever, to eternity (280×)H6256 1. time, period (264×)H2320 1. month, calendar period (260×)H0310a 2. after (temporal) (258×)H3915 1. night, period of darkness (234×)H1242 1. morning (214×)H5750 2. still, yet (continuative) (166×)G5119 1. then (160×)G3568 1. now (147×)G2193 1. until (143×)G3825 1. (141×)G3752 1. (123×)H6153 1. evening, time of day (123×)H0227a 1. then (122×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἑκᾰτοντα-έτης, ες, of a hundred years, βιοτά Refs 5th c.BC+ years old, LXX