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Lexicon :: Strong's G166 - aiōnios

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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 causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:16 - And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:29 - And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold[fn] and will inherit eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:41 - “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:46 - And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:29 - but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:17 - And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:30 - who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 16:20 - And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:25 - And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:9 - And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth,[fn] so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:18 - And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:30 - who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:15 - that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:16 - “For God so loved the world,[fn] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:36 - Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:14 - but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[fn] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:36 - Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:24 - Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:39 - You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:27 - Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:40 - For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:47 - Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:54 - Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:68 - Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:28 - I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:25 - Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:50 - And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:3 - And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:46 - And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:48 - And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:7 - to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:21 - so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:22 - But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:25 - Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:26 - but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:17 - For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:18 - as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 5:1 - For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:8 - For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 1:9 - They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from[fn] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:16 - Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 1:16 - But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:12 - Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:16 - who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:9 - who saved us and called us to[fn] a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:10 - Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:2 - in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began[fn]

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