Original Word: αあるふぁἰώνιος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: aiónios
Pronunciation: ahee-OH-nee-os
Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-o'-nee-os)
Definition: Eternal, everlasting, forever
Meaning: 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.

Word Origin: Derived from αあるふぁἰών (aiṓn), meaning "an age" or "eternity."

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: - עֹולָם (olam) - Strong's H5769: Often translated as "everlasting" or "eternal," used to describe God's eternal nature and covenant promises.

Usage: The Greek word "aiónios" is used in the New Testament to describe something that is eternal or everlasting. It often refers to the nature of God, the life promised to believers, and the duration of divine judgment. The term emphasizes the concept of timelessness and perpetuity, transcending the temporal limitations of the earthly realm.

Cultural and Historical Background: In the Greco-Roman world, the concept of eternity was often associated with the divine and the afterlife. The Jewish understanding of eternity, as reflected in the Old Testament, was rooted in the eternal nature of God and His covenant promises. The New Testament writers, influenced by both Jewish and Hellenistic thought, used "aiónios" to convey the eternal realities of God's kingdom, salvation, and judgment.

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.)]

Word Origin
from aión
Definition
agelong, eternal
NASB Translation
eternal (66), eternity (1), forever (1).

STRONGS NT 166: αあるふぁἰώνιος

αあるふぁἰώνιος, , 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))) αあるふぁἰώνιος, αあるふぁἰώνια, αあるふぁἰώνιον (αあるふぁἰών);

1. without beginning or end, that which always has been and always will be: Θεός, Romans 16:26 (ὁ μόνος αあるふぁἰώνιος, 2 Macc. 1:25); πぱいνにゅーεいぷしろんῦμみゅーαあるふぁ, Hebrews 9:14.

2. without beginning: χρόνοις αあるふぁἰωνίοις, Romans 16:25; πρό χρόνων αあるふぁἰωνίων, 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 1:2; εいぷしろんὐαγγέλιον, 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); αあるふぁἰώνιον αあるふぁὐτόν, 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.) []); similarly Hades is called αあるふぁἰώνιος 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 σしぐまοおみくろんιいおた τたうοおみくろんῦτたうοおみくろん εいぷしろんἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶνにゅー καί λύτρον αあるふぁἰωνίων παραπτωμάτων, it has been plausibly conjectured we should read λύτρον, αあるふぁἰώνιον (cf. Hebrews 9:12))); ὄλεθρος (Lachmann text ὀλέθριος, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 (4 Macc. 10:15); πぱいῦρろー, Matthew 25:41 (4 Macc. 12:12 αあるふぁἰωνίῳ πυρί καί βασάνοις, αあるふぁἱ εいぷしろんἰς ὅλらむだοおみくろんνにゅー τόν αあるふぁἰῶνにゅーαあるふぁ οおみくろんὐκかっぱ ἀρνήσουσί σしぐまεいぷしろん). (Of the examples of αあるふぁἰώνιος 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 αあるふぁἰώνιος 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 αあるふぁἰώνιος: de secular § 15; Θεός (ὁ) αあるふぁἰώνιος: 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 αあるふぁἰών Antiquities 4, 6, 5; b. j. 3, 8, 5, μνήμη αあるふぁἱ.: Antiquities 1, 13, 4; 6, 14, 4; 10, 11, 7; 15, 11, 1; οおみくろんἶκかっぱοおみくろんνにゅー μέν αあるふぁἰώνιον ἔχεις (of God), Antiquities 8, 4, 2; ἐφυλάχθη ὁ Ἰωάννης δεσμοῖς αあるふぁἰωνίοις, b. j. 6, 9, 4. SYNONYMS: ἀΐδιος, αあるふぁἰώνιος: 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. αあるふぁἰώνιος (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 αあるふぁἰών); αあるふぁἰώνιος accordingly is especially adapted to supersensuous things, see the N. T. Cf. Tim. Locr. 96 c. Θεόν δέ τόν μέν αあるふぁἰώνιον νόος ὄρろーηいーた μόνος etc.; Plato, Tim. 37 d. (and Stallbaum at the passage); 38 b. c.; legg. x., p. 904 a. ἀνώλεθρον δέ ὄνにゅー γενόμενον, ἀλらむだλらむだ' οおみくろんὐκかっぱ αあるふぁἰώνιον. Cf. also Plato's διαιώνιος (Tim. 38 b.; 39 e.). Schmidt, chapter 45.

eternal, forever, everlasting.

From aion; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well) -- eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).

see GREEK aion

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