noun · masculine
aetos
Strong’sG105
an eagle, bird of prey
stem aet-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
ἀετός, -οῦ, ὁ,
[in LXX for נֶשֶׁר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G105 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidah-et-os'
an eagle (from its wind-like flight)
Fromfrom the same as G109;
King Jameseagle.
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
Epic dialect, Lyric poetry, Ionic dialect, and early Attic dialect αἰετός (see. near the end), οῦ, ὁ, eagle, as a bird of omen, αἰ. τελειότατον πετεηνῶνRefs 8th c.BC+: favourite of Zeus, ὅστε σοὶ αὐτῷ φίλτατος οἰωνῶνRefs 8th c.BC+; αἰετὸς ἐν νεφέλαισι, of a thing quite out of reach, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀετὸν κάνθαρος μαιεύσομαι (see. μαιεύομαι):—the different kinds are distinguished by specific names, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 eagle as a standard, of the Persians, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the Romans, Refs 1st c.AD+
3 the constellation Refs 4th c.BC+
II omen, Refs 3rd c.BC+
III eagle-ray, Myliobatis aquila, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV in Architecture, gable, pediment (from its resemblance to outspread wings, Refs 5th c.BC+come under the same roof, Refs 3rd c.BC+
V name of bandage, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VI temporal vein (Magna Graecia), Philistionap.Refs 2nd c.AD+
VII iron part of spoke of wheel, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VIII Astrology texts and Magic, fabulous plant growing in Libya, Refs 2nd c.AD+ in early Attic dialect Inscrr., Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰβετός (i.e. αἰϝετός) Refs 5th c.AD+
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 | aetos | aetois2×ἀετοί |
| object accusative | aeton | aetoin |
| direct address vocative | aetor | aetoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | aetou2×ἀετοῦ | aetoiu |
| to, for dative | aeto1×ἀετῷ | aetoi |
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
aeto 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
aetou“eagle”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Revelation 8:13Kai horama, kai akouama henou aetou petorōntou en mesouranēme legarōntou fōna mega; …… as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud …
Revelation 12:14… ta gunaika tais duo pterugais tou aetou tou megou, hina petoteiō eis tan …… given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of …
aeto“eagle”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 4:7… anthrōpou, kai tem tetartem zōem homoiem aeto petorōnto;… and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
aetois“vultures”subjectnominative plural2×
Matthew 24:28… ateiō tem ptōmem, ekei sunagili tois aetois.… there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
Luke 17:37… Hopou tem sōmem, ekei kai tois aetois episunagili.… there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”