αἰώνιος | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

αἰώνιος, -ον

Definition

eternal

Erasmian

Modern

Root

αἰωνιο

Frequency

173

Mnemonics

God says, "I own it all, eternally.

Mnemonic Singing

Our Shelter from the stormy blast,
and our eternal home.

Song

Notes

αἰώνιος illustrates another kind of adjective. αἰώνιος can be either masculine or feminine. Context will show if a specific form is masculine or feminine. αἰώνιον is neuter. It is a "2 - 2" pattern because the masculine and feminine follow the second declension; the neuter also follows the second declension but with some variation. In our nomenclature, these adjectives are classified as "a-3," specifically a-3b(1). See MBG for the full paradigm.

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 18:8	“If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg neut) fire.
Matthew 19:16	A young man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do so that I may have eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life?”
Matthew 19:29	And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life.
Matthew 25:41	“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed ones, to the eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg neut) fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matthew 25:46	And these will depart to eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) punishment, but the righteous to eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life.”
Mark 3:29	but whoever but blasphemes against the Holy Spirit Holy will never have forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal (aiōniou \| αἰωνίου \| gen sg neut) sin”
Mark 10:17	And as he was going out on the road, a man ran up, and kneeling before him, asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life?”
Mark 10:30	who will not receive one hundredfold now in this present time — houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions — and in the coming age, eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life.
Mark 16:8	And going outside, they fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had taken hold of them. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Luke 10:25	Once a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life?”
Luke 16:9	And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal (aiōnious \| αἰωνίους \| acc pl fem) homes.
Luke 18:18	Now a certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life?”
Luke 18:30	who will not receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life.”
John 3:15	so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life.
John 3:16	“For this is how God loved the world: he gave his one and only Son that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life.
John 3:36	The one who believes in the Son has eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life; but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 4:14	but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up to eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life.”
John 4:36	The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
John 5:24	I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life and will not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 5:39	“You study the Scriptures because you think that by them you will have eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
John 6:27	Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life, which the Son of Man will give you; for on him God the Father has set his seal.”
John 6:40	For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who considers the Son and comes to believe in him should have eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:47	I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life.
John 6:54	The one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal (aiōnion \| αἰώνιον \| acc sg fem) life, and I will raise him up on the last day;
John 6:68	Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal (aiōniou \| αἰωνίου \| gen sg fem) life,