noun · masculine
aeros
Strong’sG109
air
stem aer-7 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀήρ, ἀέρος, ὁ,
[in LXX: II Ki 22:12 (= Ps 17 (18):11 שׁחק), Wi8;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G109 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidah-ayr'
by analogy, to blow); "air" (as naturally circumambient)
Fromfrom ἄημι (to breathe unconsciously, i.e. respire;
King Jamesair.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Refs 8th c.BC+; Ionic dialect nominative ἠήρ Refs 5th c.BC+; Aeolic dialect αὐήρ Refs 5th c.BC+; Doric dialect ἀβήρ (i.e. ἀϜήρ) Refs 8th c.BC+ always mist, haze, not (as Refs 3rd c.BC+ lower air (opposed to αἰθήρ, which see); [ἐλάτη] μακροτάτη πεφυυῖα δι᾽ ἠέρος αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανενRefs 8th c.BC+; rare in Prose, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 later, generally, air, Anaxim.1, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς τὸν ἀέρα διατρίβειν in the open air, NT+5th c.BC+; climates, Refs 5th c.BC+; of mephitic exhalations, Refs 1st c.BC+
3 personified, ὦ δέσποτ᾽ ἄναξ ἀμέτρητ᾽ Ἀ.Refs 5th c.BC+
II hot-air room in baths, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 volume, Refs 2nd c.BC+
III a pigment, sky-blue or grey, Refs. [ᾱ, except in Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aeros1×ἀὴρ | aerois |
| object accusative | aeron5×ἀέρα | aeroin |
| direct address vocative | aeror | aeroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | aerou1×ἀέρος | aeroiu |
| to, for dative | aero | aeroi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
aero is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
aeros“air”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 9:2… kai skotita tos hēlios kai tos aeros ek tou kapnou teu freateu.… furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from …
aeron“air”objectaccusative singular5×
Acts 22:23… himatieim kai koniorton balarōntoiu eis ton aeron,… cloaks and tossing dust into the air,
1 Corinthians 9:26… ouk adēlōs, houtōs pukteuamō hōs ouk aeron derarōntos;… fight like I am beating the air.
1 Corinthians 14:9… gnōskiti tem lalorōntem? evi gar eis aeron lalarōntois.… will just be speaking into the air.
1 Thessalonians 4:17… nefelai eis apantēsian tou kuriou eis aeron; kai houtōs pantote sun kurio eni.… to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be …
Revelation 16:17… ekchata tan fialan autou epi ton aeron kai exerchata fōnas megas ek tou …… poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from …
aerou“air”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Ephesians 2:2… kata ton archonton tau exousiau tou aerou, teu pneumeu teu nun energarōnteu en …… ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at …