εἰμί
eimi
εἰμί,
with various uses and significations, like the English verb to be.
I. As substantive verb.
1. Of persons and things, to be, exist: Act.17:28, Jhn.1:1, 8:58, 17:5, al; ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν (for past ptcp.), Rev.1:4, 8, 4:8, 11:17, 16:5 (see Swete, Ap., 5; M, Pr., 228); τὰ (μὴ) ὄντα, Rom.4:17, 1Co.1:28.
2. Of times, events, etc., to be, happen, take place: Mat.24:3, Mrk.14:2, 15:42, Luk.21:23, Jhn.4:6, 23, 5:10, al.
3. to be present, be in a place, have come: Mat.2:13, 15, Mrk.1:45, 5:21, 15:40, Luk.1:80, 5:29, Jhn.7:30, al.; before εἰς, Mrk.2:1; before ἐκ, (ἐξ), Mat.1:20, 21:25, Mrk.11:30, Jhn.3:31, al.
4. Impers., ἔστι, ἦν, etc.;
(a) there is (Fr. il y a), was, etc.: Mat.16:28, Luk.16:19, Jhn.3:1, 5:2, Rom.3:10, al.; with dative (of the possessor; Bl., §37, 3), Mat.16:22, Luk.1:7, Jhn.18.10, Rom.9:2, al.; ἔστιν ὅς, ὅστις (chiefly in pl), Mat.16:28, 19:2, Mrk.9:1, al.;
(b) with inf., = ἔξεστιν (which see), it is possible: Heb.9:5, 1Co.11:20, RV (but see ICC, in l.).
II. As copula uniting subject and predicate.
1. Expressing simply identity or equivalence: Mat.5:13, 14:15, Luk.1:18, 19, Jhn.1:1, 4:19, Rev.3:9, al. mult.
2. Explicative, as in parable, figure, type, etc.: Mat.13:19, 1Co.9:2, 10:4, 11:25, Gal.4:24, Rev.17:15, al.; ταῦτ᾽ ἔστιν, Mat.27:46, Mrk.7:2, Rom.7:18 al.; ὅ ἐστιν, Mrk.3:17, Col.1:24, Heb.7:2, al.; akin to this is the sacramental usage: Mat.26:26-28, Mrk.14:22, 24, Luk.22:19, 1Co.11:24 (see ICC on Mk, I Co, ll. with; DB, iii, 148 f.).
3. C. genitive: qual., etc., Mrk.5:42, Luk.3:23, 1Co.14:33, Heb.12:11, al.; part., 1Ti.1:20, 2Ti.1:15; poss., Mat.5:3, 10, Mrk.12:7, Luk.4:7; of service or partisanship, Rom.8:9, 1Co.1:12, 2Co.10:7, 2Ti.2:19.
4. C. dative (BL, §37, 3): Act.1:8, 9:15, Rom.4:12, 1Co.1:18, 2:14, Rev.21:7, al.
5. C. ptcp., as a periphrasis for the simple verb (Bl., §62, 1, 2; M, Pr., 225 ff.);
(a) with ptcp. pf. (cl.): Mat.10:30, Luk.9:32, Jhn.3:24, Act.21:35, 1Co.15:19, al;
(b) with ptcp. pr. (esp. in impf., as in Heb. and Aram.; Dalman, Words, 35 f.), Mat.7:29, Mrk.1:22, Luk.4:31, 14:1, Act.1:10, al. mult., id. for imper. (M, Pr., 180f., 182f.), with ellipsis of εἰμί, Rom.12:9, 10, Heb.13:5, al.;
(c) with ptcp. aor. (cl), Luk.23:9.
6. Seq. εἰς (cf. Heb. הָיָה לְ), a vernac. usage (M, Pr., 71): Mat.19:5, Mrk.10:8, Heb.8:10, al.
7. C. adv.: Mat.19:20, Mrk.4:26, Luk.18:11, al.
8. Ellipses;
(a) of the copula (Bl., §30, 3): Mat.8:29, 24:32, Jhn.21:22, 23, Heb.6:4, al.;
(b) of the predicate: ἐγώ εἰμί, Mat.14:27, Mrk.6:50, al.; absol. (cf. Deu.32:39; אֲנִי הוּא), Mrk.13:6, Jhn.4:26, al. (cf. ἄπ-, ἔν-, πάρ-, συμ-πάρ-, σύν-ειμι).
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Concordance 2,100 verses
- John 6:62 ἦν
Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
- John 6:63 ἐστινἐστινἐστιν
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- John 6:64 εἰσὶνεἰσὶνἐστιν
However, there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)
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Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
- John 6:69 εἶ
We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”
- John 6:70 ἐστιν
Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
- John 7:2 ἦν
However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
- John 7:4 εἶναι
For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
- John 7:6 ἐστιν
Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
- John 7:7 ἐστιν
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
- John 7:11 ἐστιν
So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
- John 7:12 ἦνἐστιν
Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”
- John 7:16 ἔστιν
“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
- John 7:17 ἐστιν
If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
- John 7:18 ἐστινἔστιν
He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.
- John 7:22 ἐστὶν
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
- John 7:25 ἐστιν
Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
- John 7:26 ἐστιν
Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
- John 7:27 ἐστίνἐστίν
But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
- John 7:28 εἰμίἔστιν
Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
- John 7:29 εἰμι
but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
- John 7:33 εἰμι
So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
- John 7:34 εἰμὶ
You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
- John 7:36 ἐστινεἰμὶ
What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
- John 7:39 ἦν
He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
- John 7:40 ἐστιν
On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
- John 7:41 ἐστιν
Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
- John 7:42 ἦν
Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
- John 7:49 εἰσιν
But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”
- John 7:50 ὢν
Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
- John 7:52 εἶ
“Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
- John 8:9 οὖσα
When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.
- John 8:10 εἰσιν
Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”
- John 8:12 εἰμι
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- John 8:13 ἔστιν
So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid.”
- John 8:14 ἐστιν
Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
- John 8:16 ἐστινεἰμί
But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.
- John 8:17 ἐστιν
Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
- John 8:18 εἰμι
I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”
- John 8:19 ἐστιν
“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
- John 8:23 ἐστέεἰμίἐστέεἰμὶ
Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
- John 8:24 εἰμι
That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
- John 8:25 εἶ
“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
- John 8:26 ἐστιν
“I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
- John 8:28 εἰμι
So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
- John 8:29 ἐστιν
He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
- John 8:31 ἐστε
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
- John 8:33 ἐσμεν
“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
- John 8:34 ἐστιν
Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
- John 8:36 ἔσεσθε
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.