Declaration · life (literally or figuratively) · perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well)
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ῥῆμα · ζωή · αἰώνιος is a Greek phrase meaning "an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever".
Full entry for ῥήματα ζωῆς αἰωνίου (G4487, G2222, G166) · Open the biblical lexicon
ῥῆμα · ζωή · αἰώνιος is a Greek phrase meaning "an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever".
G4487, G2222, G166 is connected to 67 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Greek phrase. an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 8 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.
ῥήματα ζωῆς αἰωνίου is built from this root: