Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon
αἰών (G165)
122 αἰών , -ῶνος, ὁ , [in LXX chiefly for עַד ,עוֹלָם ;] in cl., like Lat. aevum (LS, MM, VGT , s.v.), a space of time , as, a lifetime, generation, period of history, an indefinitely long period; in NT of an indefinitely long period, an age, eternity , usually c. prep. (MM, VGT ); of the past: ἀπ’ αἰ. (cf. Heb. מֵעוֹלָם ), Lk 1:70 ; of the future: εἰς τ. αἰ. (cf. לְעוֹלָם ), forever , Mt 21:19 ; id., c. neg., never , Jo 4:14 ; more strongly, εἰς τὸν αἰ. τοῦ αἰ. , He 1:8 (LXX) ; εἰς τοὺς αἰ. , Mt 6:13 ; εἰς τοὺς αἰ. τῶν αἰ. (cf. Is 45:17 , עַד־עוֹלְמֵי עַד ), Ro 16:27 , LT; cf. also Eph 3:21 , II Pe 3:18 , Ju 25 , Re 14:11 . οἱ αἰ. , the worlds, the universe , "the sum of the periods of time, including all that is manifested in them": He 1:2 11:3 (cf. I Ti 1:17 , where τῶν αἰ. are prob. "the ages or world-periods which when summed up make eternity". the present age (Heb. הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה ): ὁ αἰ. , Mt 13:22 ; ὁ αἰ. οὗτος , Mt 12:32 ; ὁ νῦν αἰ. , I Ti 6:17 ; ὁ ἐνεστὼς αἰ. , Ga 1:4 ; similarly, of the time after Christ's second coming ( הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא ), ὁ αἰ. ἐκεῖνος , Lk 20:35 ; ὁ αἰ. μέλλων , Mt 12:32 ; ὁ αἰ. ὁ ἐρχόμενος , Mk 10:30 . SYN. : κόσμος , the ordered universe, the scheme of material things ; οἰκουμένη , the inhabited earth ; in contrast with both of which αἰ. is the world under aspects of time (cf. Westc. on He 1:2 ; Tr., Syn. , §lix; Thayer, s.v., αἰ. ; Cremer, 74, 620; MM, VGT ).
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