ἀήρ
air
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 5 times (71%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (14%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G109 appears — 7 distinct verses across 5 books. 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.
Acts 1 verse
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 9:26 ἀέρα n acc sg masc I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
- 1 Corinthians 14:9 ἀέρα n acc sg masc So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
Ephesians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 9:2 ἀὴρ n nom sg masc He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
- Revelation 16:17 ἀέρα n acc sg masc The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"
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.
“air” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αηρ (aḗr). Its earliest occurrence is Acts 22:23. It turns up in 7 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in 1 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 29% of its uses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G109 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 29%
- Revelation 2 verses 29%
- Acts 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 57%
- Johannine 2 verses · 29%
- Revelation 2 verses · 29%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 14%
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: Air 7×
- American Standard Version: Air 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Air 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Air 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G109 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G109 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G109 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G109 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- the air, particularly the lower and denser air as distinguished from the higher and rarer air
- the atmospheric region
Word origin
Origin: "from aemi (to breathe unconsciously, i.e. respire; by analogy, to blow)"
From ἄημι aē mi (to breathe unconsciously that is respire ; by analogy to blow ); air (as naturally circumambient ): - air. Compare G5594 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G109 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀέρα aéra | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 22:23 | 5 |
| ἀέρος aéros | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Ephesians 2:2 | 1 |
| ἀὴρ aḕr | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 9:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G109, 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.
Derived from this word
- αετος aetós G105 eagle
- 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 αηρ appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 22:12 ἀήρ
- Psalms 17:12 ἀήρ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G109) 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.
- 2 Samuel 22:12 ἀήρ He made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Psalms 17:12 ἀήρ He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, As it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G109) 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.
