ἀετός
eagle
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 distinct verses where G105 appears in the Nominative case, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
αετος — transliterated aetós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “eagle.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. More than half of its appearances fall in Revelation. Debuting at Matthew 24:28, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G105 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 3 verses 60%
- Matthew 1 verse 20%
- Luke 1 verse 20%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Johannine 3 verses · 60%
- Revelation 3 verses · 60%
- Gospels 2 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Eagle 2×, Eagles 2×
- American Standard Version: Eagle 2×, Eagles 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eagle 3×, Vultures 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eagle 3×, A 2×, Vultures 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G105 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G105 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G105 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G105 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- an eagle: since eagles do not usually go in quest of carrion, this may to a vulture that resembles an eagle
- an eagle as a standard (Roman Military)
Word origin
Derived from αηρ (aḗr) (G109) — air.
From the same as G109 ; an eagle (from its wind like flight): - eagle.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G105 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀετοῦ aetoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 8:13 | 2 |
| ἀετοί aetoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 24:28 | 1 |
| ἀετοὶ aetoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 17:37 | 1 |
| ἀετῷ aetō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 4:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G105, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ανεμος ánemos G417 wind
- ατμις atmís G822 vapour
- αυλη aulḗ G833 courtyard
- αυλος aulós G836 pipe
- αυριον aúrion G839 tomorrow
- αυστηρος austērós G840 harsh
- αυτος autós G846 he
- αυχμηρος auchmērós G850 squalid
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αετος appears 27 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 16 books.
- 27
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 19:4 ἀετός
- Leviticus 11:13 ἀετός
- Deuteronomy 14:12 ἀετός
- 2 Samuel 1:23 ἀετός
- Job 9:26 ἀετός
- Psalms 102:5 ἀετός
- Proverbs 23:5 ἀετός
- Isaiah 40:31 ἀετός
- Jeremiah 4:13 ἀετός
- Lamentations 4:19 ἀετός
- Ezekiel 1:10 ἀετός
- Daniel 4:26 ἀετός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G105) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 19:4 ἀετός 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
- Leviticus 11:13 ἀετός "'These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,
- Deuteronomy 14:12 ἀετός But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray,
- Deuteronomy 28:49 ἀετός Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;
- Deuteronomy 32:11 ἀετός As an eagle that stirs up her nest, That flutters over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bore them on his feathers.
- 2 Samuel 1:23 ἀετός Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, In their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
- Job 9:26 ἀετός They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.
- Job 39:27 ἀετός Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high?
- Psalms 102:5 ἀετός By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
- Proverbs 23:5 ἀετός Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
- Proverbs 24:22 ἀετός For their calamity will rise suddenly; The destruction from them both--who knows?
- Proverbs 30:17 ἀετός The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.
- Proverbs 30:19 ἀετός The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent on a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.
- Isaiah 40:31 ἀετός but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
- Jeremiah 4:13 ἀετός Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.
- Jeremiah 30:10 ἀετός Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
- Jeremiah 30:16 ἀετός Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.
- Lamentations 4:19 ἀετός Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 1:10 ἀετός As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.
- Ezekiel 17:3 ἀετός and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
- Ezekiel 17:7 ἀετός There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
- Daniel 4:26 ἀετός Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
- Daniel 7:4 ἀετός The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I saw until the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
- Hosea 8:1 ἀετός "Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh's house, Because they have broken my covenant, And rebelled against my law.
- Obadiah 1:4 ἀετός Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
- Micah 1:16 ἀετός Shave your heads, And cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; For they have gone into captivity from you!
- Habakkuk 1:8 ἀετός Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G105) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
