αἰώνιος
aiṓnios · G166 · Greek · 71 occurrences
Meanings
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eternal
Pertaining to an unlimited duration of time
ExamplesMatthew 18:8 “And if your hand or your foot is causing you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you; it is better for you to enter life maimed or without a foot, than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.
Matthew 19:16 And someone came to Him and said, “Teacher, what good thing shall I do so that I may obtain eternal life?”
Matthew 19:29 “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms on account of My name, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.
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since all time, from all ages past, from the beginning of time
An exceedingly long period of time from an assumed beginning up to the present
ExamplesRomans 16:25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past,
2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was granted to us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,
Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,
How it’s used In 1 role
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In the other Testament 2 words
- עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm · H5769 · forever, eternity
- Hebrew עוֹלָם and Greek αἰώνιος form a direct cross-linguistic equivalent pair for perpetuity and eternity, both denoting duration extending indefinitely into past or future time; the Septuagint translators consistently used αἰώνιος as the standard Greek rendering of עוֹלָם across temporal contexts.
- עָלַם ʻâlam · H5957 · for ever, old
- Aramaic cognate of Hebrew עוֹלָם (ʻôwlâm, H5769), directly rendering the perpetual/everlasting temporal sense that Greek αἰώνιος conveys in LXX alignment contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Since all time, from all ages past, from the beginning of time67.133
- In Romans 16:25, Paul speaks of “the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past (chrónois aiōníois),” where the adjective reaches back to a distant, unspecified beginning.
- Eternal67.96
- In Romans 16:26, the same mystery is now disclosed “in accordance with the commandment of the eternal God (tou aiōníou theou),” where the adjective simply describes God's timeless, unending nature.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon and (in 2 Thess 2:16; Heb 9:12; Num 25:13; Plato, Tim., p. 38 b. (see below); Diodorus…
1. without beginning or end, that which always has been and always will be: Θεός, Rom 16:26 (ὁ μόνος αἰώνιος, 2 Macc. 1:25); πνεῦμα, Heb 9:14.
2. without beginning: χρόνοις αἰωνίοις, Rom 16:25; πρό χρόνων αἰωνίων, 2 Tim 1:9; Tit 1:2; εὐαγγέλιον, a gospel whose subject-matter is eternal, i. e., the saving purpose of God adopted from eternity, Rev 14:6.
3. without end, never to cease, everlasting: 2 Cor 4:18 (opposed to πρόσκαιρος); αἰώνιον αὐτόν, joined to thee forever as a sharer of the same eternal life, Phm 1:15; βάρος δόξης, 2 Cor 4:17; βασιλεία, 2 Pet 1:11; δόξα, 2 Tim 2:10; 1 Pet 5:10; ζωή (see ζωή, 2 b.); κληρονομία, Heb 9:15; λύτρωσις, Heb 9:12; παράκλησις, 2 Thess 2:16; σκηναί, abodes to be occupied forever, Lk 16:9 (the habitations of the blessed in heaven are referred to, cf. Jn 14:2 (also,dabo eis tabernacula aeterna, quae praeparaveram illis, 4 Esdras (Fritzsche, 5 Esdr.) 4 Esdras 2:11> [2 Esdras 2:11>]); similarly Hades is called αἰώνιος τόπος, Tobit 3:6, cf. Eccl 12:5); σωτηρία, Heb 5:9; (so Mark 16 (WH) in the (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion'). Opposite ideas are: κόλασις, Mt 25:46; κρίμα, Heb 6:2; κρίσις, Mk 3:29 (Rec. (but L T WH Tr text ἁμαρτήματος; in Acta Thom. § 47, p. 227 Tdf., ἔσται σοι τοῦτο εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν καί λύτρον αἰωνίων παραπτωμάτων, it has been plausibly conjectured we should read λύτρον, αἰώνιον (cf. Heb 9:12))); ὄλεθρος (Lachmann text ὀλέθριος, 2 Thess 1:9 (4 Macc. 10:15); πῦρ, Mt 25:41 (4 Macc. 12:12 αἰωνίῳ πυρί καί βασάνοις, αἱ εἰς ὅλον τόν αἰῶνα οὐκ ἀρνήσουσί σε). (Of the examples of αἰώνιος from Philo (with whom it is less common than ἀΐδιος, which see, of which there are some fifty instances) the following are noteworthy: de mut. nora. § 2; de caritate § 17; κόλασις αἰώνιος fragment in Mang. 2:667 at the end (Richter 6:229 middle); cf. de praem, et poen. § 12. Other examples are de alleg, leg. iii., § 70; de poster. Caini § 35; quod deus immut. § 30; quis rer. div. her. § 58; de congressu quaer, erud. § 19; de secular sec 38; de somn. ii. § 43; de Josepho § 24; quod omn. prob. book § 4, § 18; de ebrietate § 32; de Abrah. § 10; ζωή αἰώνιος: de secular § 15; Θεός (ὁ) αἰώνιος: de plantat. § 2, § 18 (twice), § 20 (twice);de mundo § 2. from Josephus: Antiquities 7, 14, 5; 12, 7, 3; 15, 10, 5; b. j. 1, 33, 2; 6, 2, I; κλέος αἰών Antiquities 4, 6, 5; b. j. 3, 8, 5, μνήμη αἱ.: Antiquities 1, 13, 4; 6, 14, 4; 10, 11, 7; 15, 11, 1; οἶκον μέν αἰώνιον ἔχεις (of God), Antiquities 8, 4, 2; ἐφυλάχθη ὁ Ἰωάννης δεσμοῖς αἰωνίοις, b. j. 6, 9, 4. SYNONYMS: ἀΐδιος, αἰώνιος: ἀΐδιος covers the complete philosophic idea — without beginning and without end; also either without beginning or without end; as respects the past, it is applied to what has existed time out of mind. αἰώνιος (from Plato on) gives prominence to the immeasurableness of eternity (while such words as συνεχής continuous, unintermitted, διατελής perpetual, lasting to the end, are not so applicable to an abstract term, like αἰών); αἰώνιος accordingly is especially adapted to supersensuous things, see the N. T. Cf. Tim. Locr. 96 c. Θεόν δέ τόν μέν αἰώνιον νόος ὄρη μόνος etc.; Plato, Tim. 37 d. (and Stallbaum at the passage); 38 b. c.; legg. x., p. 904 a. ἀνώλεθρον δέ ὄν γενόμενον, ἀλλ' οὐκ αἰώνιον. Cf. also Plato's διαιώνιος (Tim. 38 b.; 39 e.). Schmidt, chapter 45.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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