Greek noun (masculine) · G109
ἀήρ
aerah-ayr'
air
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: aḗr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G109is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G109
"air" (as naturally circumambient)
The King James renders it: air.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
aer is rendered "air". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 22:23As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,
Acts 22:23ἀέρα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's seven uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- air7
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀέρα5
- ἀέρος1
- ἀὴρ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular5N-ASM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Acts
one use
As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,
- ἀέραaeranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: air
1 Corinthians
two uses
Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.
- ἀέραaeranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: air
So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.
- ἀέραaeranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: air
Ephesians
one use
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
- ἀέροςaerosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: air
1 Thessalonians
one use
After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
- ἀέραaeranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: air
Revelation
two uses
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
- ἀὴρaernoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: air
Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, “It is done!”
- ἀέραaeranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: air
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.