Aei means “ever” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H104 — iggera (“letter”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G104 ἀεί (aei) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aei (ah-eye') adv. 1. "ever" 2. (by qualification) regularly It has 18 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include ever. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
aei (ah-eye') adv. 1. "ever" 2. (by qualification) regularly 3. (by implication) earnestly [from an obsolete primary noun apparently meaning "continued duration"] KJV: always, ever
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G104. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: ἀεί, adv., [in LXX: Isa.42:14 (מֵעוֹלָם) 51:13 (תָּמִיד), Ps 94(95):10, al. ;] ever; __1. of continuous time, unceasingly, perpetually: Act.7:51, 2 Co.4.11; 6:10, Tit.1:12, Heb.3:10. __2. Of successive occurrences, on every occasion (MM, VGT, see word): 1Pe.3:15, 2Pe.1:12. † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aei, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G104 (ἀεί) appears 10 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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8 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Forty years was I grieved with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart, And they have not known my ways.
I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear? I have endured like a travailing woman: I will now amaze and wither at once.
And thou hast forgotten God who made thee, who made the sky and founded the earth; and thou wert continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted thee: for whereas he counseled to take thee away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted thee?
7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.
Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor’s coming, and that the heathen were up against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him that had established his people forever, and who always helpeth his portion with manifestation of his presence.
Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen at Jerusalem, but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by bestowing upon them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G104.
Forty years was I grieved with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart, And they have not known my ways.
I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear? I have endured like a travailing woman: I will now amaze and wither at once.
And thou hast forgotten God who made thee, who made the sky and founded the earth; and thou wert continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted thee: for whereas he counseled to take thee away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted thee?
And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.
Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor’s coming, and that the heathen were up against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him that had established his people forever, and who always helpeth his portion with manifestation of his presence.
Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen at Jerusalem, but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by bestowing upon them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.
Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be forever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come.
Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel unto everlasting. Amen.
For it is not the power of them by whom they swear: But it is the just vengeance of sinners, That punisheth always the offense of the ungodly.
They died for fear, Denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G104, grouped by book.
Aei (Strong's G104) is a Greek word most simply glossed "ever". aei (ah-eye') adv. 1. "ever" 2. (by qualification) regularly
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G104 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G104 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as ever. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G104, with linked reader references where each row is available.