I taken by the spear, captive, prisoner, Pi. Fr. 223, Hdt. 6.79, 134; freq. of women, A. Ag. 1440, S. Tr. 417: -
II =
III
a captive, Luk 4:18
G164 —
(from
αἱχμάλωτος , - ον
( < αἰχμή , a spear, ἁλίσκομαι , to be taken),
[in LXX chiefly for H7617, H1473;]
captive: Luk 4:18 ( LXX ) . †
αἰών , - ῶνος , ὁ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H5769, H5703;]
1. in cl ., like Lat. aevum ( LS , MM , VGT , s.v. ), a space of time, as, a lifetime, generation, period of history, an indefinitely long period; in NT of an indefinitely long period, an age, eternity, usually c . prep . ( MM , VGT) ;
(a) of the past: ἀπ , αἰ . ( cf. Heb . H5769), Luk 1:70;
(b) of the future: εἰς τ . αἰ . ( cf. H5769), forever, Mat 21:19; id ., c . neg ., never, Joh 4:14; more strongly, εἰς τὸν αἰ . τοῦ αἰ ., Heb 1:8 ( LXX ) ; εἰς τοὺς αί ., Mat 6:13; εἰς τοὺς αί . τῶν αί . ( cf. Isa 45:17, H5704 H5769 H5703), Rom 16:27, LT; cf. also Eph 3:21 , 2Pe 3:18, Jud 1:25, Rev 14:11.
2. οἱ αἰ ., the worlds, the universe, "the sum of the periods of time, including all that is manifested in them": Heb 1:2; Heb 11:3 ( cf. 1Ti 1:17, where τῶν αἰ are proh. "the ages or world-periods which when summed up make eternity".
3. the present age ( Heb . H1933 H5769): ὁ αἰ ., Mat 13:22; ὁ αἰ . οὗτος , Mat 12:32; ὁ νῦν αἰ ., 1Ti 6:17; ὁ ἐ v εστὼς αἰ ., Gal 1:4; similarly, of the time after Christ's second coming (H935 H5769), ὁ αἰ . ἐκεῖνο s, Luk 20:22; ὁ αἰ . μέλλων , Mat 12:32; ὁ αἰ . ὁ ἐρχόμενος , Mar 10:30.
SYN.: κόσμος G2889, the ordered universe, the scheme of material things; οἰκουμένη , the inhabited earth; in contrast with both of which al is the world under aspects of time ( cf. Westc . on Heb 1:2; Tr., Syn. , § lix; Thayer , s.v. , αἰ .; Cremer , 74, 620; MM , VGT ).