adjective
aidios
Strong’sG126
eternal
stem aidi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 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.
** ἀΐδιος, -ον
(< ἀεί), [in LXX: Wi 7:26, IV Mac 10:15*;]
SYN.: αἰώνιος, also freq. in Inscr. (Deiss., BS, 363 J. The etymological distinction between the meanings of the two words seems not to be retained in late Greek (v. Thayer, s.v., αἰώνιος; cf. Cremer, 79, 611).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G126 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidah-id'-ee-os
everduring (forward and backward, or forward only)
Fromfrom G104;
King Jameseternal, everlasting.
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
also η, ον, Refs 5th c.AD+, (ἀεί):— everlasting, eternal, Refs 8th c.BC+; οἴκησις, of a tomb, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἀ. οὐσία eternity, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. στρατηγία, ἀρχή, βασιλεία, perpetual.., Refs 4th c.BC+; τὰ ἀ., opposed to τὰ γενητά and φθαρτά, Refs; ἐς ἀΐδιον for ever, Refs 5th c.BC+; ad infinitum, Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative -ώτεροςRefs 4th c.BC+ —ἀ. is distinct from αἰώνιος as everlasting from timeless, Refs 6th c.AD+; but distinct from ἀείζωος as eternal (without beginning or end) from everliving, Refs. adverb -ίωςLXX+2nd 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aidios | aidias1×ἀΐδιος | aidiem | aidiois | aidiais | aidieim |
| object accusative | aidion | aidian | aidioin | aidiain | ||
| direct address vocative | aidior | aidiar | aidioir | aidiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | aidiou | aidiau | aidieu | aidioiu | aidiaiu | aidieiu |
| to, for dative | aidio | aidia | aidie | aidioi1×ἀϊδίοις | aidiai | aidiei |
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
aidi 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
aidias“eternal”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 1:20… tei poiēmei noorōnteim kathorotō, tas tē aidias autou dunamias kai theiotas, eis tem …… the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been …
aidioi“eternal”to, fordative plural1×
Jude 1:6… oikētēriem eis krisian megau hēmerau desmoi aidioi hupo zofon tēratē;… dwelling— these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment …