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Words
αἰώνιος G166
- Home gloss
- of age
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- perpetual, everlasting / perpetual, everlasting / everlasting
- Note
- The adjective of αἰών "age," printed as a genitive so that the word keeps its noun: "for generations of age" (9:12), "a covenant of age" (9:16), as the Masoretic version reads "of age" for עוֹלָם. It binds ζωὴ αἰώνιος, "life of age" (Matt 19:16; John 3:16), where the expected English is "eternal" or "everlasting"; D. B. Hart prints "of the Age." Whether the word means unending duration or belonging to the age to come is a doctrinal question (Matt 25:46), and the gloss leaves it open (guide §1.4; 46, 93)
- Rulings
- 2, 46, 93
- Declared to share English with
- G165 — one root: age / of age (145a, g)
Occurrences (7)
- 9:12 And the Lord God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I am giving between me and you and between every living soul that is with you, for generations of age:
- 9:16 And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will see to remember a covenant of age between me and between every living soul in all flesh that is upon the land."
- 17:7 And I will make stand my covenant between me and between you and between your seed after you, for their generations, for a covenant of age: to be your God, and of your seed after you.
- 17:8 And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land which you sojourn in, all the land of Canaan, for a holding of age; and I will be to them God."
- 17:13 with circumcision he shall be circumcised, the household-born of your house and the silver-bought; and my covenant shall be upon your flesh for a covenant of age.
- 17:19 Now God said to Abraham, "Yes; look, Sarah your woman shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will make stand my covenant with him for a covenant of age, and for his seed after him.
- 21:33 And Abraham planted a plowland at the Well of the Oath, and called on there the name of the Lord, God of age.