Strong's Greek · G166
G166 aiṓnios
αἰώνιος
eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began)
Looking for Hebrew H166 ʼâhal? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G166. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
aiṓnios appears 70 times in Scripture, including Matthew 18:8 and Mark 3:29. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well)
Derivation
from G165 (αἰών);
Appears 70 times in Scripture
“But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of eternal sin.””
“Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?””
“will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.”
“And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.”
“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 to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.”
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
“that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.”
“Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”
“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.””
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
