ἐν
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ἐν,
prep, (the most frequently of all in NT), with dative (= Heb. בְּ, Lat. in, with abl.).
I. Of place, with dative of thing(s), of person(s), in, within, on, at, by, among: ἐν τ. πόλει, Luk.7:37; τ. οφθαλμῷ, Mat.7:3; τ. κοιλίᾳ, Mat.12:40; τ. ὄρει, 2Pe.1:18; τ. θρόνῳ, Rev.3:21; τ. δεξιᾷ τ. θεοῦ, Rom.8:34; ἐν ἡμῖν Abbott-Smith has ὑμῖν., Luk.1:1; of books, ἐν τ. βιβλίῳ, Gal.3:10; τ. νόμῳ, Mat.12:5, al.; ἐν τοῖς τ. Πατρός, in my Father's house (RV; cf. M, Pr., 103), Luk.2:49; trop., of the region of thought or feeling, ἐν τ. καρδίᾳ (-αις), Mat.5:28, 2Co.4:6, al.; τ. συνειδήσεσιν, 2Co.5:11; after verbs of motion, instead of εἰς (constructio praegnans, a usage extended in late Gk. beyond the limits observed in cl.; cf. Bl., §41, 1; M, Th., 12), ἀποστέλλω . . . ἐν, Mat.10:16. δέδωκεν ἐν τ. χειρί (cf. τιθέναι ἐν χερσί, Hom., Il., i, 441, al.), Jhn.3:35; id. after verbs of coming and going (not in cl.), εἰσῆλθε, Luk.9:46; ἐξῆλθεν, Luk.7:17.
II. Of state, condition, form, occupation, etc.: ἐν ζωῇ, Rom.5:10; ἐν τ. θανάτῳ, 1Jn.3:14; ἐν πειρασμοῖς, 1Pe.1:6; ἐν εἰρήνῃ, Mrk.5:25; ἐν δόξῃ, Php.4:19; ἐν πραΰτητι, Jas.3:13; ἐν μυστηρίῳ, 1Co.2:7; ἐν τ. διδαχῇ, Mrk.4:2; of a part as contained in a whole, ἐν τ. ἀμπέλῳ, Jhn.15:4; ἐν ἑνὶ σώματι, Rom.12:4; of accompanying objects or persons (simple dative in cl.), with, ἐν αἵματι, Heb.9:25; ἐν δέκα χιλιάσιν, Luk.14:31 (cf. Ju 14, Act.7:14); similarly (cl.), of clothing, armour, arms, ἐν στολαῖς, Mrk.12:38; ἐν ἐσθῆτι λαμπρᾷ, Jas.2:2; ἐν μαξαίρῃ, Luk.22:49; ἐν ῥάβδῳ, 1Co.4:21 (cf. ἐν τόξοις, Xen., Mem., 3, 9, 2); of manner (cl.), ἐν τάχει (= ταχέως), Luk.18:8 (cf. Bl., §41, 1); of spiritual influence, ἐν πνεύματι, Rom.8:9; ἐν π. ἀκαθάρτῳ, Mrk.1:23; of the mystical relation of the Christian life and the believer himself, to God and Christ (cf. ICC, Ro., 160f.; Mayor on Ju 1; M, Pr., 103): ἐν Χριστῷ, Rom.3:24, 6:11, 1Co.3:1, 4:10, 2Co.12:2, Gal.2:17, Eph.6:21, Col.4:7, 1Th.4:16, al.
III. Of the agent, instrument or means (an extension of cl. ἐν of instr.—see LS, see word Ill—corresponding to similar use of Heb. בְּ), by, with: ἐν ὑμῖν κρίνεται ὁ κόσμος (= cl. παρά, C. dative), 1Co.6:2; ἐν τ. ἄρχοντι τ. δαιμονίων, Mat.9:34; ἐν αἵματι, Heb.9:22; ἐν ὕδατι, Mat.3:11, al.; ἐν μαχαίρᾳ ἀποκτενεῖ (cf. the absol. ἐν μ., ἐν ῥάβδῳ, supr., II, which some would classify here), Rev.13:10 (cf. 6:8). Allied to this usage and distinctly Semitic are the following: ἠγόρασας . . . ἐν τ. αἵματι σου (cf. BDB, see word בְּ, III, 3), Rev.5:9; ὁμολογεῖν ἐν (= Aram. אודי בּ; cf. McNeile on Mt, I.with; M, Pr., 104), Mat.10:32, Luk.12:8; ὀμνύναι ἐν (= cl. accusative, so Jas.5:12), Mat.5:34, al.; also at the rate of, amounting to, Mrk.4:8 (WH; vv. ll., εἰς, ἒν), Act.7:14 (LXX).
IV. Of time,
(a) in or during a period: ἐν τ. ἡμέρᾳ (νυκτί), Jhn.11:9, al.; ἐν σαββάτῳ, Mat.12:2, al.; ἐν τῷ μεταξύ, meanwhile, Jhn.4:31;
(b) at the time of an event: ἐν τ. παρουσίᾳ, 1Co.15:23; ἐν τ. ἀναστάσει, Mat.22:28;
(c) with art. inf.,
(α) present (so sometimes in cl., but not as in NT = ἕως; V. M, Pr., 215), while: Mat.13:4, Mrk.6:48, Gal.4:18, al.;
(β) aor., when, after: Luk.9:36, al.;
(d) within (cl.): Mat.27:40,
V. In composition: (1) meaning: (a) with adjectives, it signifies usually the possession of a quality, as ἐνάλιος, ἐν́δοξος; (b) with verbs, continuance in (before ἐν) or motion into (before εἰς), as ἐμμένω, ἐμβαίνω. (ii) Assimilation: ἐν becomes ἐμ- before β, μ, π, φ, ψ; ἐγ- before γ, κ, ξ, χ; ἐλ- before λ. But in the older MSS of NT, followed by modern editions, assimilation is sometimes neglected, as in ἐνγράφω, ἐγκαινίζω, etc.
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Concordance 2,112 verses
- John 1:47 ἐν
When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
- John 2:1 ἐν
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
- John 2:11 ἐν
Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
- John 2:14 ἐν
In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
- John 2:19 ἐν
Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
- John 2:20 ἐν
“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
- John 2:23 ἐνἐνἐν
While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
- John 2:25 ἐν
He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
- John 3:14 ἐν
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
- John 3:15 ἐν
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
- John 3:21 ἐν
But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
- John 3:23 ἐν
Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
- John 3:35 ἐν
The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
- John 4:14 ἐν
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 4:20 ἐνἐν
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
- John 4:21 ἐνἐν
“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
- John 4:23 ἐν
But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.
- John 4:24 ἐν
God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
- John 4:31 Ἐν
Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
- John 4:37 ἐν
For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
- John 4:44 ἐν
Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.
- John 4:45 ἐνἐν
Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.
- John 4:46 ἐν
So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
- John 4:52 ἐν
So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”
- John 4:53 ἐνἐν
Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.
- John 5:2 ἐν
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
- John 5:3 ἐν
On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.
- John 5:5 ἐν
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
- John 5:7 ἐν
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”
- John 5:9 ἐν
Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now this happened on the Sabbath day,
- John 5:13 ἐν
But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while the crowd was there.
- John 5:14 ἐν
Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”
- John 5:16 ἐν
Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
- John 5:26 ἐνἐν
For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
- John 5:28 ἐνἐν
Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
- John 5:35 ἐν
John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.
- John 5:38 ἐν
nor does His word abide in you, because you do not believe the One He sent.
- John 5:39 ἐν
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
- John 5:42 ἐν
but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
- John 5:43 ἐνἐν
I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
- John 6:10 ἐν
“Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.
- John 6:31 ἐν
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
- John 6:39 ἐν
And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
- John 6:40 ἐν
For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- John 6:44 ἐν
“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:45 ἐν
It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
- John 6:49 ἐν
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
- John 6:53 ἐν
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
- John 6:56 ἐνἐν
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
- John 6:59 ἐνἐν
Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
