What does ἀετός (aetós) mean in the Bible?
ἀετός (aetós) is a Greek word meaning "an eagle (from its wind-like flight)".
Greek · G105
ἀετός
An eagle (from its wind-like flight)
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ἀετός G105
Pronunciation aetós
What does ἀετός (aetós) mean in the Bible?
ἀετός (aetós) is a Greek word meaning "an eagle (from its wind-like flight)".
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G105?
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include eagle (2), vultures (2), an eagle (1).
Where does ἀετός (aetós) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 24:28. Its strongest book concentrations include Revelation (3), Luke (1), Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It eagle 2× Revelation 8:13, Revelation 12:14
vultures 2× Matthew 24:28, Luke 17:37
an eagle 1× Revelation 4:7
Show sample aligned rows
Matthew 24:28 ἀετοί to vultures Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Luke 17:37 ἀετοὶ to vultures Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Revelation 4:7 ἀετῷ to an eagle Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Revelation 8:13 ἀετοῦ to eagle Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Revelation 12:14 ἀετοῦ to eagle Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 24:28
Aligned rows 5
Books represented 3
Matthew 1 Luke 1 Revelation 3
Source forms
ἀετοῦ 2x aetou Revelation 8:13, Revelation 12:14
ἀετοί 1x aetoi Matthew 24:28
ἀετοὶ 1x aetoi Luke 17:37
ἀετῷ 1x aetō Revelation 4:7
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular 2x Revelation 8:13, Revelation 12:14
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural 2x Matthew 24:28, Luke 17:37
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular 1x Revelation 4:7
Evidence Summary
Greek word. an eagle (from its wind-like flight)
Strong's G105
Lexical occurrences 5 verses Greek text appearances 4 times Word forms 3 forms 5 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
an eagle (from its wind-like flight)
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 24:28 Noun Nominative Plural Masculine
ἀετοί. aetoi
an eagle, bird of prey
Read verse Luke 17:37 Noun Nominative Plural Masculine
ἀετοί. aetoi
an eagle, bird of prey
Read verse Revelation 4:7 Noun Dative Singular Masculine
ἀετῷ aetw
an eagle, bird of prey
Read verse Revelation 12:14 Noun Genitive Singular Masculine
ἀετοῦ aetou
an eagle, bird of prey
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 3 Aligned forms 5 Case pattern Genitive (2) Number pattern Singular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Matt 24:28 · Luke 17:37 2×
Genitive · Singular · Masculine Rev 8:13 · Rev 12:14 2×
Dative · Singular · Masculine Rev 4:7 1×
Word Origins
ἀετός is built from this root:
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain