age/height
helikia marks a person's life stage or life span and, in other contexts, bodily stature or mature measure.
The attested uses most often concern a person's life stage or span: adult standing, being beyond a proper stage for conception, and the span that worry cannot extend. Other verses use the term in statements of bodily stature, whether smallness, growth, or a measured fullness.
Senses in use
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Life stage, adult standing, or life span · dominant
In John 9:21 and John 9:23, the accusative singular form occurs in the parents' instruction to ask their son because he can speak for himself; the APB renders the clause, “He has age; ask him.” In Hebrews 11:11 the genitive singular occurs where Sarah is “past the proper age,” while Matthew 6:27 and Luke 12:25 place the accusative singular in the question about adding a cubit to one's “span of life.”
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Bodily stature and measured maturity · common
In Luke 19:3, the dative singular explains why the crowd prevented the man from seeing Jesus: the APB says he was “small in stature.” Luke 2:52 places the dative singular among Jesus' advances, and Ephesians 4:13 uses the genitive singular in the phrase rendered “the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “age,” “proper age,” and “span of life” in life-stage contexts, and with “stature” in bodily-measure contexts. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.