Always
ἀείStrong’s G0104aei
Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament
In short
Aei is the Greek word usually translated “always”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.
“One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.”
Meaning
Usually translated “always”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- always 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Corinthians 2
- Mark 1
- Acts 1
- Titus 1
- Hebrews 1
- 1 Peter 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Peter 1:12In contextWherefore 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Greek dictionary
ἀεί aei · always
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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “alway” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AL'WAY or AL'WAYS, adverb
[all and way]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.