ἀεί
aeí · G104 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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always, constantly, continually
Duration of time, either continuous or episodic, but without limits
ExamplesActs 7:51 “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.
2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are constantly being handed over to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 6:10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- πάντοτε pántote · G3842 · always, at all times, on every occasion
- Both πάντοτε (“at all times, always”) and the target term denote temporal continuity or habitual constancy; the target leans toward earnest, unbroken constancy, while πάντοτε indicates unmarked habitual scope, so the two differ mainly in register.
- ἑκάστοτε hekástote · G1539 · always, at all times, on every occasion
- ἑκάστοτε (hekástote, G1539) denotes recurrence at every distinct occasion or time-point ('at every time'), while ἀεί (aeí, G104) expresses continuous or unbroken constancy ('always,' 'ever'). Both convey habitual temporal repetition, though ἑκάστοτε (hekástote, G1539) emphasizes discrete repeated instances and ἀεί (aeí, G104) suggests perpetual continuity. ἑκάστοτε (hekástote, G1539) appears only once in the New Testament, limiting verification of full interchangeability across registers, but the attested sense aligns closely with ἀεί (aeí, G104)'s core meaning of ongoing or repeated occurrence.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Always, constantly, continually67.86
- This adverb denotes an unbroken, ongoing pattern, as in Acts 7:51's rebuke, "You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit."
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (see αἰών, adverb (from Homer down), always; 1. perpetually, incessantly: Acts 7:51; 2…
1. perpetually, incessantly: Acts 7:51; 2 Cor 4:11; 2 Cor 6:10; Tit 1:12; Heb 3:10.
2. invariably, at any and every time when according to the circumstances something is or ought to be done again: Mk 15:8 (T WH omit) (at every feast); 1 Pet 3:15; 2 Pet 1:12.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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