αἰών

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an age: age

αἰών , -ῶνος, ὁ, [in LXX chiefly for עַד ,עוֹלָם ;] __1. in cl., like Lat. aevum (LS, MM, VGT , see word), 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 with prep. (MM, VGT ); __(a) of the past : ἀπ᾽ αἰ. (cf. Heb. מֵעוֹלָם), Luk.1:70; __(b) of the future : εἰς τ. αἰ. (cf. לְעוֹלָם), forever , Mat.21:19; id., with neg., never , Jhn.4:14; more strongly, εἰς τὸν αἰ. τοῦ αἰ., Heb.1:8 (LXX); εἰς τοὺς αἰ., Mat.6:13; εἰς τοὺς αἰ. τῶν αἰ. (cf. Isa.45:17 , עַד־עוֹלְמֵי עַד), Rom.16:27 , LT; cf. also Eph.3:21 , 2Pe.3:18 , Ju 25 , Rev.14:11 . __2. οἱ αἰ., the worlds, the universe , "the sum of the periods of time, including all that is manifested in them": He :12 11:3 (cf. 1Ti.1:17 , where τῶν αἰ. are prob. "the ages or world-periods which when summed up make eternity". __3. the present age (Heb. הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה): ὁ αἰ., Mat.13:22; ὁ αἰ. οὗτος, Mat.12:32; ὁ νῦν αἰ., 1Ti.6:17; ὁ ἐνεστὼς αἰ., Gal.1:4; similarly, of the time after Christ's second coming (הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא), ὁ αἰ. ἐκεῖνος, Luk.20:35; ὁ αἰ. μέλλων, Mat.12:32; ὁ αἰ. ὁ ἐρχόμενος, Mrk.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 Heb.1:2; Tr., Syn. , §lix; Thayer, see word, αἰ.; Cremer, 74, 620; MM, VGT ). (AS)