Strong's Concordance aiónios: agelong, eternal Original Word: αἰώνιος, ία, ιονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: aiónios Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-o'-nee-os) Short Definition: eternal, unending Definition: age-long, and therefore: practically eternal, unending; partaking of the character of that which lasts for an age, as contrasted with that which is brief and fleeting. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 166 aiṓnios (an adjective, derived from 165 /aiṓn ("an age, having a particular character and quality") – properly, "age-like" ("like-an-age"), i.e. an "age-characteristic" (the quality describing a particular age); (figuratively) the unique quality (reality) of God's life at work in the believer, i.e. as the Lord manifests His self-existent life (as it is in His sinless abode of heaven). "Eternal (166 /aiṓnios) life operates simultaneously outside of time, inside of time, and beyond time – i.e. what gives time its everlasting meaning for the believer through faith, yet is also time-independent. See 165 (aiōn). [166 (aiṓnios) does not focus on the future per se, but rather on the quality of the age (165 /aiṓn) it relates to. Thus believers live in "eternal (166 /aiṓnios) life" right now, experiencing this quality of God's life now as a present possession. (Note the Gk present tense of having eternal life in Jn 3:36, 5:24, 6:47; cf. Ro 6:23.)] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 166: αἰώνιοςαἰώνιος, , and (in 2 Thessalonians 2:16; Hebrews 9:12; Numbers 25:13; Plato, Tim., p. 38 b. (see below); Diodorus 1:1; (cf. WHs Appendix, p. 157; Winers Grammar, 69 (67); Buttmann, 26 (23))) αἰώνιος, αἰώνια, αἰώνιον (αἰών); 1. without beginning or end, that which always has been and always will be: Θεός, Romans 16:26 (ὁ μόνος αἰώνιος, 2 Macc. 1:25); πνεῦμα, Hebrews 9:14. 2. without beginning: χρόνοις αἰωνίοις, Romans 16:25; πρό χρόνων αἰωνίων, 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 1:2; εὐαγγέλιον, a gospel whose subject-matter is eternal, i. e., the saving purpose of God adopted from eternity, Revelation 14:6. 3. without end, never to cease, everlasting: 2 Corinthians 4:18 (opposed to πρόσκαιρος); αἰώνιον αὐτόν, joined to thee forever as a sharer of the same eternal life, Philcmon 1:15; βάρος δόξης, 2 Corinthians 4:17; βασιλεία, 2 Peter 1:11; δόξα, 2 Timothy 2:10; 1 Peter 5:10; ζωή (see ζωή, 2 b.); κληρονομία, Hebrews 9:15; λύτρωσις, Hebrews 9:12; παράκλησις, 2 Thessalonians 2:16; σκηναί, abodes to be occupied forever, Luke 16:9 (the habitations of the blessed in heaven are referred to, cf. John 14:2 (also,dabo eis tabernacula aeterna, quae praeparaveram illis, 4 Esdras (Fritzsche, 5 Esdr.) From aion; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well) -- eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began). see GREEK aion Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 16671 Occurrences αἰώνια — 1 Occ. αἰωνίαν — 2 Occ. αἰωνίων — 2 Occ. αἰωνίοις — 1 Occ. αἰώνιον — 45 Occ. αἰώνιός — 4 Occ. αἰωνίου — 15 Occ. αἰωνίους — 1 Occ. Matthew 18:8 Adj-ANS GRK: πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον NAS: and be cast into the eternal fire. KJV: to be cast into everlasting fire. INT: fire eternal Matthew 19:16 Adj-AFS Matthew 19:29 Adj-AFS Matthew 25:41 Adj-ANS Matthew 25:46 Adj-AFS Matthew 25:46 Adj-AFS Mark 3:29 Adj-GFS Mark 10:17 Adj-AFS Mark 10:30 Adj-AFS Mark 16:20 Adj-GFS Luke 10:25 Adj-AFS Luke 16:9 Adj-AFP Luke 18:18 Adj-AFS Luke 18:30 Adj-AFS John 3:15 Adj-AFS John 3:16 Adj-AFS John 3:36 Adj-AFS John 4:14 Adj-AFS John 4:36 Adj-AFS John 5:24 Adj-AFS John 5:39 Adj-AFS John 6:27 Adj-AFS John 6:40 Adj-AFS John 6:47 Adj-AFS John 6:54 Adj-AFS |