Aer means “air” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H109 — adab (“grieve”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G109 ἀήρ (aer) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aer (ah-ayr') n. 1. "air" (as naturally surrounding) [from aemi "to breathe unconsciously", i.e. respire] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include air. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
aer (ah-ayr') n. 1. "air" (as naturally surrounding) [from aemi "to breathe unconsciously", i.e. respire] KJV: air Compare: G5594 See also: G1005
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G109. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
air
Usage: ἀήρ, ἀέρος, ὁ, [in LXX: 2Ki.22:12 (= Psa.17(18):11 שׁחק), Wi .8 ;] in Hom., Hes., the lower air which surrounds the earth, as opposite to the purer αἰθήρ of the higher regions; generally, air (MM, VGT, see word): Act.22:23, 1Th.4:17, Rev.9:2 16:17; of the air as the realm of demons, Eph.2:2; ἀ. δέρειν, of striving to no purpose, 1Co.9:26; εἰς ἀ. λαλεῖν, of speaking without effect, not being understood, 1Co.14:9.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aer, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, 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 G109 (ἀήρ) appears 10 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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7 indexed usages in New Testament.
And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he made darkness his hiding place; His tabernacle round about him was the darkness of waters, He condensed it with the clouds of the air.
And he made darkness his secret place: Round about him was his tabernacle, Even dark water in the clouds of the air.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers,
Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned to ashes, And our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,
Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, There is no token of her way to be found, But the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings, And parted with the violent noise and motion of them, Is passed through, and therein afterward no sign where she went is to be found;
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G109.
And he made darkness his hiding place; His tabernacle round about him was the darkness of waters, He condensed it with the clouds of the air.
And he made darkness his secret place: Round about him was his tabernacle, Even dark water in the clouds of the air.
And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
and then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers,
Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned to ashes, And our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,
Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, There is no token of her way to be found, But the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings, And parted with the violent noise and motion of them, Is passed through, and therein afterward no sign where she went is to be found;
Or like as when an arrow is shot at a mark, It parteth the air, which immediately cometh together again, So that a man cannot know where it went through:
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, And fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, And the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, Or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, Or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.
For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods: Which neither have the use of eyes to see, Nor noses to draw breath, Nor ears to hear, Nor fingers of hands to handle; And as for their feet, they are slow to go.
For though no terrible thing did fear them; Yet being scared with beasts that passed by, and hissing of serpents,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G109, grouped by book.
Aer (Strong's G109) is a Greek word most simply glossed "air". aer (ah-ayr') n. 1. "air" (as naturally surrounding) [from aemi "to breathe unconsciously", i.e. respire]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's G109 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G109 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 air. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G109, with linked reader references where each row is available.