Bible word study

Aion (Strong’s G165): Meaning in the Bible

Aion (αἰών) is the Greek word numbered G165 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future). In the King James Bible it is translated age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever.

• Original wordαἰών
• Transliterationaiṓn
• Pronunciationahee-ohn'
• Strong’s numberG165
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the same as G104;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Aion appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Aion (G165) stands behind 124 English renderings in 98 verses across 22 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Revelation (27), Hebrews (15), Matthew (9).

How the King James Bible renders Aion, by count

• ever72 of 124 (58 percent)
• world28 of 124 (23 percent)
• began3 of 124 (2 percent)
• evermore3 of 124 (2 percent)
• never3 of 124 (2 percent)
• of the world3 of 124 (2 percent)

Three places to read Aion

• Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
• Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
• Hebrews 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Aion in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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