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Lexicon :: Strong's G166 - aiōnios

Aa
αἰώνιος
Transliteration
aiōnios (Key)
Pronunciation
ahee-o'-nee-os
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:208,31

Strong’s Definitions

αἰώνιος aiṓnios, ahee-o'-nee-os; from G165; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well):—eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 71x

The KJV translates Strong's G166 in the following manner: eternal (42x), everlasting (25x), the world began (with G5550) (2x), since the world began (with G5550) (1x), for ever (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 71x
The KJV translates Strong's G166 in the following manner: eternal (42x), everlasting (25x), the world began (with G5550) (2x), since the world began (with G5550) (1x), for ever (1x).

  1. without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be

  2. without beginning

  3. without end, never to cease, everlasting

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
αἰώνιος aiṓnios, ahee-o'-nee-os; from G165; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well):—eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).
STRONGS G166:
αἰώνιος, -ον, 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)]) -ος, -α, -ον, (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; πρὸ 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, Philemon 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.) 2:11]; similarly Hades is called αἰώνιος τόπος, Tobit 3:6, cf. Ecclesiastes 12:5); σωτηρία, Hebrews 5:9; [so Mark 16 WH, in the (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion'].
Opposite ideas are: κόλασις, Matthew 25:46; κρίμα, Hebrews 6:2; κρίσις, Mark 3:29 (Rec. [but L T WH Tr text ἁμαρτήματος; in Acta Thom. § 47, p. 227 Tdf., ἔσται σοι τοῦτο εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν καὶ λύτρον αἰωνίων παραπτωμάτων, it has been plausibly conjectured we should read λύτρον, αἰώνιον (cf. Hebrews 9:12)]); ὄλεθρος [Lachmann text ὀλέθριος], 2 Thessalonians 1:9 (4 Macc. 10:15); πῦρ, Matthew 25:41 (4 Macc. 12:12 αἰωνίῳ πυρὶ κ. βασάνοις, αἳ εἰς ὅλον τὸν αἰῶνα οὐκ ἀνήσουσί 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 αἰ. 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; ζωὴ αἰ.: de secular § 15; Θεός (ὁ) αἰ.: 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 αἰ. 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 μὲν αἰώνιον ἔχεις (of God), Antiquities 8, 4, 2; ἐφυλάχθη ὁ Ἰωάννης δεσμοῖς αἰωνίοις, b. j. 6, 9, 4.
SYNONYMS: ἀΐδιος, αἰώνιος: ἀΐδ. 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. Θεὸν δὲ τὸν μὲν αἰώνιον νόος ὁρῆ μόνος etc.; Plato, Tim. 37 d. (and Stallbaum at the passage); 38 b. c.; legg. x., p. 904 a. ἀνώλεθρον δὲ ὄν γενόμενον, ἀλλ’ οὐκ αἰώνιον. Cf. also Plato's διαιώνιος (Tim. 38 b.; 39 e.). Schmidt, chapter 45.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
25:13
Ecclesiastes
12:5
Matthew
25:41; 25:46
Mark
3:29; 16
Luke
16:9
John
14:2
Romans
16:25; 16:26
2 Corinthians
4:17; 4:18
2 Thessalonians
1:9; 2:16; 2:16
2 Timothy
1:9; 2:10
Titus
1:2
Philemon
1:15
Hebrews
5:9; 6:2; 9:12; 9:12; 9:12; 9:14; 9:15
1 Peter
5:10
2 Peter
1:11
Revelation
14:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G166 matches the Greek αἰώνιος (aiōnios),
which occurs 71 times in 69 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:8 - And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:16 - And one came to him and said, Master, what good thing have I to do, so that I may have eternal life?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:29 - And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:41 - Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:46 - And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:29 - But whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but the evil he has done will be with him for ever:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:17 - And while he was going out into the way, a man came running to him, and went down on his knees, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:30 - Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 16:20 - And they went out, preaching everywhere, the Lord working with them, and giving witness to the word by the signs which came after. So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:25 - And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:9 - And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:18 - And a certain ruler put a question to him, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:30 - Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:15 - So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:16 - For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:36 - He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:14 - But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36 - He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:24 - Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:39 - You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:27 - Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:40 - This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:47 - Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:54 - He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:68

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:68 - Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:28 - And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:25 - He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:50 - And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:2 - Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:3 - And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:46 - Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:48 - And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:7 - To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:21 - That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:22 - But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:23 - For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:25 - Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:26 - But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:17 - For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:18 - While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 5:1 - For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:8 - Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 1:9 - Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:16 - Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 1:16 - But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:12 - Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:16 - Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:9 - Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:10 - But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:2 - In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

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