Strong G104ἀεί
always
- Transliteration
- aei
- Pronunciation
- ah-eye'
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb
Definition
From an obsolete primary noun (apparently meaning continued duration);
ever; by qualification regularly; by implication earnestly: - always ever.
ever; by qualification regularly; by implication earnestly: - always ever.
Detailed definition
ἀεί, adv.,
[in LXX: Isa.42:14 (מֵעוֹלָם) 51:13 (תָּמִיד), Ps 94(95):10, al.;]
ever;
1. of continuous time, unceasingly, perpetually: Act.7:51, 2 Co.4.11; 6:10, Tit.1:12, Heb.3:10.
2. Of successive occurrences, on every occasion (MM, VGT, see word): 1Pe.3:15, 2Pe.1:12.
† (AS)
[in LXX: Isa.42:14 (מֵעוֹלָם) 51:13 (תָּמִיד), Ps 94(95):10, al.;]
ever;
1. of continuous time, unceasingly, perpetually: Act.7:51, 2 Co.4.11; 6:10, Tit.1:12, Heb.3:10.
2. Of successive occurrences, on every occasion (MM, VGT, see word): 1Pe.3:15, 2Pe.1:12.
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G104 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- alway4
- always3
- ever1
First verses
- Mark 15:8And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.
- Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- 2 Corinthians 4:11For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
- 2 Corinthians 6:10As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
- Titus 1:12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
- Hebrews 3:10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
- 1 Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
- 2 Peter 1:12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀεί,
adverb ever, always, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)]; with other specifications of time, ἐμμενὲς αἰεί[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.69; συνεχὲς αἰ. 9.74)]; ἀ. καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἀ., ἀ. καὶ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, ἀ. κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτόν, ἀ. διὰ βίου, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 75d, etc.; ἀ. πανταχοῦ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.197, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Eq..” 568; διὰ παντὸς ἀ. “Pax” 397; ἐνδελεχῶς ἀ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 521)]; δεῦρ᾽ ἀεί until now, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1663, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 811c)]; αἰεί κοτε, ποτε from of old, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.58, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.82; αἰ. δήποτε 1.13)]; compare εἰσαεί:—with the Article, ὁ ἀ. χρόνος eternity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.54, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 103e, etc.)]; οἱ ἀ. ὄντες the immortals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.46, etc.:)] —but ὁ αἰ. βασιλεύων the king for the time being, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.98; οἱ ἀ. δικάζοντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.223)]; ὁ αἰ. ἐντὸς γιγνόμενος every one as he got inside, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.68; τὸν ἀ. προστυχόντα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.131)]; τοῖσι τούτων αἰ. ἐκγόνοισι to their descendants for ever, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.105, compare 3.83, etc.; in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 937, θῶπτε τὸν κρατοῦντ᾽ ἀ., ἀεί is postponed for the sake of meter—Dialectic forms (cf. Hdn.Gr. 1.497)], Et.Gud.z):
1 αἰεί, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, poetical, and Early Attic dialect [Refs 4th c.BC+ (compare (4th c.AD(?): Marcellinus Biographus “Vita Thucydidis” 52); found (beside ἀεί) in _Attic dialect_ Inscrr. to 4th c.BC)]
2 ἀεί [ᾰ three times in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], ᾱ?~X Attic dialect] normal in Attic dialect Inscrr. from [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC)]
3 αἰέν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.290, +others (ἆεν is variant in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.827), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.3, 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 90, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 428, “Ag.” 891, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 682.)]
4 Doric dialect αἰές, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1266, 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus “fragment” 1.1)]; also ἀές, [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.134.)]
5 Aeolic dialect αἶι(ν), ἄιν, Hdn.Gr.[same place];[Refs (compare “IG” 9(2).461 (ἄϊν, Thess.), “SIG” 58 (Milet.), and see at {ἀϊπάρθενος},{ἀείδασμος}.)]
6 αἰέ, Hdn.Gr. [prev. cited]
7 ἀέ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.88, Pisander Epicus 11)] (ᾰἐ); compare ἀέ-ναος.
8 Boeotian dialect ἠί, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus Gr. [prev. cited])]
9 Tarentum dialect αἰή, [Refs ([prev. passage])]
II τὸ ἀ. eternity, τὸ ἀ. τοῦτο οὐκ αἰώνιόν ἐστιν ἀλλὰ χρονικόν[Refs 1st c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 198. The statement of 1st-2nd c.AD: Harpocratio Grammaticus that ἀεί)] = ἕως in Attic dialect is based on misinterpretation of such phrases as ἐς τόνδε αἰ. τὸν πόλεμον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18. (αἰϝεί “epigram Gr.” 742, “GDI” 60.31 (5th c.AD: Cypria), “IG” 9(1).334.4 (_Locrian dialect_))], cf. Latin aevum.)
adverb ever, always, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)]; with other specifications of time, ἐμμενὲς αἰεί[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.69; συνεχὲς αἰ. 9.74)]; ἀ. καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἀ., ἀ. καὶ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, ἀ. κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτόν, ἀ. διὰ βίου, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 75d, etc.; ἀ. πανταχοῦ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.197, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Eq..” 568; διὰ παντὸς ἀ. “Pax” 397; ἐνδελεχῶς ἀ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 521)]; δεῦρ᾽ ἀεί until now, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1663, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 811c)]; αἰεί κοτε, ποτε from of old, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.58, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.82; αἰ. δήποτε 1.13)]; compare εἰσαεί:—with the Article, ὁ ἀ. χρόνος eternity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.54, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 103e, etc.)]; οἱ ἀ. ὄντες the immortals, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.46, etc.:)] —but ὁ αἰ. βασιλεύων the king for the time being, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.98; οἱ ἀ. δικάζοντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.223)]; ὁ αἰ. ἐντὸς γιγνόμενος every one as he got inside, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.68; τὸν ἀ. προστυχόντα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.131)]; τοῖσι τούτων αἰ. ἐκγόνοισι to their descendants for ever, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.105, compare 3.83, etc.; in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 937, θῶπτε τὸν κρατοῦντ᾽ ἀ., ἀεί is postponed for the sake of meter—Dialectic forms (cf. Hdn.Gr. 1.497)], Et.Gud.z):
1 αἰεί, Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, poetical, and Early Attic dialect [Refs 4th c.BC+ (compare (4th c.AD(?): Marcellinus Biographus “Vita Thucydidis” 52); found (beside ἀεί) in _Attic dialect_ Inscrr. to 4th c.BC)]
2 ἀεί [ᾰ three times in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], ᾱ?~X Attic dialect] normal in Attic dialect Inscrr. from [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC)]
3 αἰέν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.290, +others (ἆεν is variant in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.827), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.3, 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 90, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 428, “Ag.” 891, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 682.)]
4 Doric dialect αἰές, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1266, 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus “fragment” 1.1)]; also ἀές, [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.134.)]
5 Aeolic dialect αἶι(ν), ἄιν, Hdn.Gr.[same place];[Refs (compare “IG” 9(2).461 (ἄϊν, Thess.), “SIG” 58 (Milet.), and see at {ἀϊπάρθενος},{ἀείδασμος}.)]
6 αἰέ, Hdn.Gr. [prev. cited]
7 ἀέ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.88, Pisander Epicus 11)] (ᾰἐ); compare ἀέ-ναος.
8 Boeotian dialect ἠί, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus Gr. [prev. cited])]
9 Tarentum dialect αἰή, [Refs ([prev. passage])]
II τὸ ἀ. eternity, τὸ ἀ. τοῦτο οὐκ αἰώνιόν ἐστιν ἀλλὰ χρονικόν[Refs 1st c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 198. The statement of 1st-2nd c.AD: Harpocratio Grammaticus that ἀεί)] = ἕως in Attic dialect is based on misinterpretation of such phrases as ἐς τόνδε αἰ. τὸν πόλεμον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18. (αἰϝεί “epigram Gr.” 742, “GDI” 60.31 (5th c.AD: Cypria), “IG” 9(1).334.4 (_Locrian dialect_))], cf. Latin aevum.)