αἰώνιος
aiōnios
eternal
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
SupportedThe Greek word αἰώνιος (aiōnios) is a term that conveys the concept of eternity. Its short definition, "eternal," suggests that it relates to something that exists or lasts forever. This word appears 71 times in the Bible, indicating its significance and importance in the text. The frequency of its occurrence suggests that αἰώνιος is a versatile term used in various contexts. Its meaning is not limited to a specific aspect of eternity, such as timelessness or endless duration. Instead, it seems to encompass a broader range of ideas related to perpetuity, continuity, and the absence of temporal limitations. Given its prevalence in the Bible, αἰώνιος likely plays a crucial role in shaping the theological and philosophical perspectives presented in the text. Its meaning and usage may provide insights into the authors' understanding of the nature of existence, the relationship between time and eternity, and the significance of eternal aspects of human experience.
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Occurrences in Scripture
71 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
Matthew 19:16Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
Matthew 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Matthew 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Matthew 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Mark 3:29but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”
Mark 10:17As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Mark 10:30but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
Mark 16:8They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
Luke 10:25Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 16:9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
Luke 18:18A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 18:30who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”
John 3:15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 4:36He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:47Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
John 6:54He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 12:25He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
John 12:50I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”
John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Acts 13:46Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:48As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Romans 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
Romans 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:22But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 16:25{14.24} To Him now being able you to strengthen according to the gospel of mine and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery in times of the ages kept secret,
Romans 16:26{14.25} having been made manifest however now through also Scriptures prophetic according to the commandment of the Eternal God unto the obedience of faith — to all the Gentiles having been made known —
2 Corinthians 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
2 Corinthians 4:18while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
Galatians 6:8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Hebrews 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
2 Thessalonians 1:9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
2 Thessalonians 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
1 Timothy 1:16However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:16He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
2 Timothy 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,