εἰμί

eimi

Greek G1510 Verb 2,465 occurrences in 2,100 verses
εἰμί to be

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

  1. John 13:33 εἰμι

    Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

  2. John 13:35 ἐστε

    By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

  3. John 14:2 εἰσιν

    In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

  4. John 14:3 εἰμὶἦτε

    And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.

  5. John 14:6 εἰμι

    Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

  6. John 14:9 εἰμι

    Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

  7. John 14:10 ἐστιν

    Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

  8. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—

  9. John 14:17 ἔσται

    the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

  10. John 14:21 ἐστιν

    Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

  11. John 14:24 ἔστιν

    Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

  12. John 14:28 ἐστιν

    You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

  13. John 15:1 εἰμιἐστιν

    “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

  14. John 15:3 ἐστε

    You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

  15. John 15:5 εἰμι

    I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

  16. I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

  17. John 15:12 ἐστὶν

    This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

  18. John 15:14 ἐστε

    You are My friends if you do what I command you.

  19. John 15:19 ἦτεἐστέ

    If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

  20. John 15:20 ἔστιν

    Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

  21. John 15:27 ἐστε

    And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

  22. John 16:4 ἤμην

    But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

  23. John 16:15 ἐστιν

    Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

  24. John 16:17 ἐστιν

    Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

  25. John 16:18 ἐστιν

    They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

  26. Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

  27. John 16:32 εἰμὶἐστιν

    “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

  28. John 17:3 ἐστιν

    Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

  29. John 17:5 εἶναι

    And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

  30. John 17:6 ἦσαν

    I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

  31. John 17:7 εἰσιν

    Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.

  32. John 17:9 εἰσιν

    I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours.

  33. John 17:10 ἐστιν

    All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine; and in them I have been glorified.

  34. John 17:11 εἰμὶεἰσίνὦσιν

    I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.

  35. John 17:12 ἤμην

    While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

  36. John 17:14 εἰσὶνεἰμὶ

    I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  37. John 17:16 εἰσὶνεἰμὶ

    They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  38. John 17:17 ἐστιν

    Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

  39. John 17:19 ὦσιν

    For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

  40. John 17:21 ὦσινὦσιν

    that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

  41. John 17:22 ὦσιν

    I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one—

  42. John 17:23 ὦσιν

    I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

  43. John 17:24 εἰμὶὦσιν

    Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

  44. And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”

  45. John 18:1 ἦν

    After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.

  46. John 18:5 εἰμι

    “Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. Jesus said, “I am He.” And Judas His betrayer was standing there with them.

  47. John 18:6 εἰμι

    When Jesus said, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

  48. John 18:8 εἰμι

    “I told you that I am He,” Jesus replied. “So if you are looking for Me, let these men go.”

  49. Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

  50. John 18:13 ἦνἦν

    They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

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