aēr · air

What it means

aēr (ἀήρ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “air”.

The air around the earth.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What surrounds the earth and is breathed; "speaking to nothing": no one understanding.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Ephesians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Revelation×2

• Acts 22:23

  And as they were shouting and throwing off their garments and tossing dust into the air,

• 1 Corinthians 9:26

  So I run in this way: not as one who runs aimlessly; I box in this way: not as one beating the air.

• 1 Corinthians 14:9

  So also you, if through the tongue you do not give an intelligible word, how will it be known what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

• Ephesians 2:2

  in which you once walked, according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience;

• 1 Thessalonians 4:17

  then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord.

• Revelation 9:2

  And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the shaft.

• Revelation 16:17

  And the seventh poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the sanctuary, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”