"always, for ever, constantly"
Definition and meaning
always, for ever, constantly
In the original Greek the word is written: ἀεί
Historical context
The Gospel of Mark moves urgently — the word "immediately" appears over 40 times. It was written for a Roman audience familiar with power and action. Jesus is portrayed as a man who acts, heals, and commands authority that the Roman world had never seen from a Jewish teacher.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of aei (G104) across the King James Bible.
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 alway 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.
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Common questions
Strong's G104 (aei) is a Greek word that means: always, for ever, constantly It appears 8 times in the King James Bible.
The word aei (G104) appears 8 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G104 is aei, a Greek word defined as: always, for ever, constantly. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
aei is a Greek word found in the New Testament.