εἰς

eis

Greek G1519 Preposition 1,768 occurrences in 1,510 verses
εἰς toward

εἰς,

prep. with accusative,

expressing entrance, direction, limit, into, unto, to, upon, towards, for, among (Lat. in, with accusative).

I. Of place.

1. After verbs of motion;

(a) of entrance into: Mat.8:23, 9:7, Mrk.1:45, Luk.2:15, 8:31, al.;

(b) of approach, to or towards: Mrk.11:1, Luk.6:8, 19:28, Jhn.11:31, 21:6, al.;

(c) before pl. and collective nouns, among: Mrk.4:7, 8:19, 20, Luk.11:49, Jhn.21:23, al.;

(d) Of a limit reached, unto, on, upon: Mat.8:18, 21:1, Mrk.11:1, 13:16, Luk.14:10, Jhn.6:3, 11:32, al.; with accusative of person(s) (as in Ep. and Ion.), Act.23:15, Rom.5:12, 16:19, 2Co.10:14;

(e) elliptical: ἐπιστολαὶ εἰς Δαμασκόν, Act.9:2; ἡ διακονία μου ἡ εἰς Ἱ., Rom.15:31; metaphorically, of entrance into a certain state or condition, or of approach or direction towards some end (Thayer, B, i, 1; ii, 1), εἰς τ. ὄνομα, M, Pr., 200.

2. Of direction;

(a) after verbs of seeing: Mat.6:26, Mrk.6:41, Luk.9:16, 62, Jhn.13:22, al.; metaphorically, of the mind, Heb.11:26, 12:2, al.;

(b) after verbs of speaking: Mat.13:10, 14:9, 1Th.2:9, al.

3. After verbs of rest;

(a) in "pregnant" construction, implying previous motion (cl.; see WM, 516; Bl., §39, 3; M, Pr., 234f.): Mat.2:23, 4:13, 2Th.2:4, 2Ti.1:11, Heb.11:9, al.;

(b) by an assimilation general in late Gk (see Bl., M, Pr., ll. with) = ἐν: Luk.1:44, 4:23, Act.20:16, 21:17, Jhn.1:18 (but see Westc, in l.), al.

II. Of time, for, unto;

1. accentuating the duration expressed by the accusative: εἰς τ. αἰῶνα, Mat.21:19; εἰς γενεὰς καὶ γ., Luk.1:50; εἰς τ. διηνεκές, Heb.7:3, al.

2. Of a point or limit of time, unto, up to, until: Mat.6:34, Act.4:3, 25:21, Php.1:10, 2:16, 1Th.4:15, 2Ti.1:12; of entrance into a future period, σεις τὸ μέλλον (see: μέλλω), next (year), Luk.13:9 (but with ICC, in l.); εἰς τ. μεταξὺ σάββατον, on the next Sabbath, Act.13:42; εἰς τὸ πάλιν (see: πάλιν, 2Co.13:2.

III. Of result, after verbs of changing, joining, dividing, etc.: στρέφειν εἰς, Rev.11:6; μετας-, Act.2:20, Jas.4:9; μεταλλάσσειν, Rom.1:26; σχίζειν εἰς δύο, Mat.27:51, al.; predicatively with εἴναι, Act.8:23.

IV. Of relation, to, towards, for, in regard to (so in cl., but more frequently in late Gk., εἰς encroaching on the simple dative, which it has wholly displaced in MGr.; Jannaris, Gr., §1541; Robertson, Gr., 594; Deiss., BS, 117f.): Luk.7:30, Rom.4:20, 15:2, 26, 1Co.16:1, Eph.3:16, al.; ἀγάπη εἰς, Rom.5:8, al.; χρηστός, Eph.4:32; φρονεῖν εἰς, Rom.12:16; θαρρεῖν, 2Co.10:1.

V. Of the end or object: εὔθετος εἰς, Luk.14:34; σόφος, Rom.16:19; ἰσχύειν, Mat.5:13; εἰς τοῦτο, Mrk.1:38, al.; ἀφορίζειν εἰς, Rom.1:1; indicating purpose, εἰς φόβον, Rom.8:15; εἰς ἔνδειξιν, Rom.3:25; εἰς τό, with inf. (= ἵνα or ὥστε; Bl., §71, 5; M, Pr., 218ff.): Mat.20:19, Rom.1:11, 1Co.9:18, al.

VI. Adverbial phrases: εἰς τέλος, εἰς τὸ πάλιν, etc (see: τέλος, πάλιν, etc.).

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Concordance 1,510 verses

  1. Luke 12:21 εἰς

    This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”

  2. Luke 12:28 εἰς

    If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!

  3. Luke 12:58 εἰς

    Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.

  4. Luke 13:9 εἰς

    If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.’”

  5. Luke 13:11 εἰς

    and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.

  6. Luke 13:19 εἰςεἰς

    It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”

  7. Luke 13:21 εἰς

    It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

  8. Luke 13:22 εἰς

    Then Jesus traveled throughout the towns and villages, teaching as He made His way toward Jerusalem.

  9. Luke 14:1 εἰς

    One Sabbath, Jesus went to eat in the home of a leading Pharisee, and those in attendance were watching Him closely.

  10. Luke 14:5 εἰς

    And He asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”

  11. Luke 14:8 εἰςεἰς

    “When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.

  12. Luke 14:10 εἰς

    But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.

  13. Luke 14:21 εἰς

    The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’

  14. Luke 14:23 εἰς

    So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

  15. Luke 14:28 εἰς

    Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

  16. Luke 14:31 εἰς

    Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

  17. Luke 14:35 εἰςεἰς

    It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile, and it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

  18. Luke 15:6 εἰς

    comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’

  19. Luke 15:13 εἰς

    After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.

  20. Luke 15:15 εἰς

    So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

  21. Luke 15:17 Εἰς

    Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

  22. Luke 15:18 εἰς

    I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

  23. Luke 15:21 εἰς

    The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

  24. Luke 15:22 εἰςεἰς

    But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

  25. Luke 16:4 εἰς

    I know what I will do, so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

  26. Luke 16:8 εἰς

    The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

  27. Luke 16:9 εἰς

    I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.

  28. Luke 16:16 εἰς

    The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

  29. Luke 16:22 εἰς

    One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.

  30. Luke 16:27 εἰς

    ‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,

  31. Luke 16:28 εἰς

    for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’

  32. Luke 17:2 εἰς

    It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

  33. Luke 17:4 εἰς

    Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

  34. Luke 17:11 εἰς

    While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.

  35. Luke 17:12 εἴς

    As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance

  36. Luke 17:24 εἰς

    For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

  37. Luke 17:27 εἰς

    People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

  38. Luke 17:31 εἰς

    On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.

  39. Luke 18:5 εἰς

    yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”

  40. Luke 18:10 εἰς

    “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

  41. Luke 18:13 εἰς

    But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’

  42. Luke 18:14 εἰς

    I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

  43. Luke 18:17 εἰς

    Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

  44. Luke 18:24 εἰς

    Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

  45. Luke 18:25 εἰς

    Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

  46. Luke 18:31 εἰς

    Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

  47. Luke 18:35 εἰς

    As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.

  48. Luke 19:4 εἰς

    So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.

  49. Luke 19:12 εἰς

    So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.

  50. Luke 19:28 εἰς

    After Jesus had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

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