What does βασιλεία · αἰώνιος mean in the Bible?
βασιλεία · αἰώνιος is a Greek phrase meaning "eternal kingdom".
Greek · G932, G166
Basileia aiōnios
Kingdom · perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well)
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βασιλεία G932 kingdom
Pronunciation basileía
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αἰώνιος G166 perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well)
Pronunciation aiṓnios
Eternal quality without end; applied to punishment, life, and God's attributes in eschatological contexts.
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What does basileia aiōnios (basileia / aiōnios) mean in the Bible?
βασιλεία · αἰώνιος is a Greek phrase meaning "eternal kingdom".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for G932, G166?
G932, G166 is connected to 162 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Greek phrase. eternal kingdom
Source Gloss
eternal kingdom
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 5 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 5 Aligned forms 162 Case pattern Accusative (63) Number pattern Singular (159)
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Matt 3:2 · Matt 4:17 · Matt 5:3 · Matt 5:10 · Matt 6:10 · Matt 10:7 · Matt 11:12 · Matt 12:25 · Matt 12:26 · Matt 12:28 · Matt 13:24 · Matt 13:31 · Matt 13:33 · Matt 13:44 · Matt 13:45 · Matt 13:47 55×
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Matt 4:23 · Matt 8:12 · Matt 9:35 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 13:19 · Matt 13:38 · Matt 13:41 · Matt 16:19 · Matt 24:14 · Mark 4:11 · Mark 6:23 · Mark 12:34 · Luke 1:33 · Luke 8:10 · Luke 9:11 · Luke 18:29 22×
Dative · Singular · Feminine Matt 5:19 · Matt 8:11 · Matt 11:11 · Matt 13:43 · Matt 13:52 · Matt 16:28 · Matt 18:1 · Matt 18:4 · Matt 20:21 · Matt 26:29 · Mark 14:25 · Luke 7:28 · Luke 9:62 · Luke 13:28 · Luke 13:29 · Luke 14:15 22×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Matt 5:20 · Matt 6:33 · Matt 7:21 · Matt 18:3 · Matt 19:12 · Matt 19:23 · Matt 19:24 · Matt 21:31 · Matt 23:13 · Matt 24:7 · Matt 25:34 · Mark 4:30 · Mark 9:1 · Mark 9:47 · Mark 10:15 · Mark 10:23 60×
Accusative · Plural · Feminine Matt 4:8 · Luke 4:5 · Heb 11:33 3×
Word Origins
basileia aiōnios is built from this root:
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