αἰῶνος: [41 verses](noun sg masc gen) "Age" is aion, which means "life," "lifetime," "age," or "generation." -- (CW)"World" is a Greek word that means "lifetime," "life," "a space of time," "an age," an epoch," and "the present world." This word plays a major if misleading role in the concepts of  “forever” (see this article) and “eternal” (see this article). It is also an even larger and more misleading role in this idea of "the end of the world" (see this article.) This is word not usually translated as "world."  CW --Confusing Word -- This is word not usually translated as "world."