Lexical Summary
aér: Air
Original Word: ἀήρ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: aér
Pronunciation: ah-ayr'
Phonetic Spelling: (ah-ayr')
KJV: air
NASB: air
Word Origin: [from aemi "to breathe unconsciously", i.e. respire]
1. "air" (as naturally surrounding)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
air.
From aemi (to breathe unconsciously, i.e. Respire; by analogy, to blow); "air" (as naturally circumambient) -- air. Compare psucho.
see GREEK psucho
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom aémi (to breathe, blow)
Definitionair
NASB Translationair (7).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 109: ἀήρἀήρ,
ἀέρος,
ὁ (
ἄημι,
ἄω (cf.
ἄνεμος, at the beginning)),
the air (particularly the lower and denser, as distinguished from the higher and rarer
ὁ αἰθήρ, cf.
Homer, Iliad 14, 288), the atmospheric region:
Acts 22:23;
1 Thessalonians 4:17;
Revelation 9:2;
Revelation 16:17;
ὁ ἄρχων τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ ἀέρος in
Ephesians 2:2 signifies 'the ruler of the powers (spirits, see
ἐξουσία 4 c.
ββ.) in the air,' i. e. the devil, the prince of the demons that according to Jewish opinion fill the realm of air (cf. Meyer at the passage; (
B. D. American edition under the word
