Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

εἷς

Vocabulary form: 
εἷς
Definition: 

one

Frequency: 
345
GK: 
1651
Cognates: 

A hendiadys is a figure of speech in which two nouns describe one thing. It is from the phrase e}n dia; duoi:n, meaning "one thing by means of two."

Henotheism is the belief in one God while allowing for the existence of other gods.

Mnemonics: 

When I ace in tennis, I only serve once.

Mnemonic Singing: 

To Thee great One in Three,
eternal praises be.

Mnemonics

If you want to be an ACE in Tennis, beat MIA in track, and be a superstar IN (HEN) football, then realize this: you only get ONE chance.

Biblical Concordance

Luke 11:46 Jesus replied, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people down with burdens hard to bear, yet you yourselves will not touch the burdens with one (heni | ἑνί | dat sg masc) of your fingers.
Luke 12:6 “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one (hen | ἕν | nom sg neut) of them is forgotten before God.
Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one (hen | ἕν | nom sg neut) of these.
Luke 12:52 For from now on there will be five in one (heni | ἑνί | dat sg masc) household divided, three against two and two against three;
Luke 13:10 Now he was teaching in one (mia | μιᾷ | dat sg fem) of the synagogues on the Sabbath,
Luke 14:18 But one (mias | μιᾶς | gen sg fem) after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I bought a field, and I must go out to see it. I ask you, have me excused.’
Luke 15:4 “Which man among you, who has a hundred sheep, should he lose one (hen | ἕν | acc sg neut) of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?
Luke 15:7 I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one (heni | ἑνί | dat sg masc) sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.
Luke 15:8 “Or what woman, who has ten silver coins, should she lose one (mian | μίαν | acc sg fem) coin, would not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search diligently until she finds it?
Luke 15:10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one (heni | ἑνί | dat sg masc) sinner who repents.”
Luke 15:15 So he went and hired himself out to one (heni | ἑνί | dat sg masc) of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luke 15:19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Take me on as one (hena | ἕνα | acc sg masc) of your hired servants.’
Luke 15:26 So calling one (hena | ἕνα | acc sg masc) of his servants, he asked what this might be.
Luke 16:5 Calling each one (hena | ἕνα | acc sg masc) of his master’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
Luke 16:13 “No servant is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one (hena | ἕνα | acc sg masc) and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one (henos | ἑνός | gen sg masc) and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Luke 16:17 It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest part of a single (mian | μίαν | acc sg fem) letter in the law to lose its force.
Luke 17:2 It is better for him if a millstone is hung around his neck and he is cast into the sea than that he should cause one (hena | ἕνα | acc sg masc) of these little ones to stumble.
Luke 17:15 Then one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of them, when he saw that he had been healed, returned, praising God in a loud voice,
Luke 17:22 And he said to the disciples, “Days are coming when you will desire to see one (mian | μίαν | acc sg fem) of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
Luke 17:34 I tell you, on that night there will be two in one (mias | μιᾶς | gen sg fem) bed; one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) will be taken and the other left behind.
Luke 17:35 There will be two women grinding at the mill together; one (mia | μία | nom sg fem) will be taken and the other left behind.”
Luke 18:10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Luke 18:19 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) — God.
Luke 18:22 Upon hearing this, Jesus said to him, “One (hen | ἕν | nom sg neut) thing you still lack: sell all that you have and distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
Luke 20:1 One (mia | μιᾷ | dat sg fem) day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, along with the elders, came up
Luke 22:47 While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the one called Judas, one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of the twelve, was coming on ahead of them. He went up to Jesus to kiss him,
Luke 22:50 And a certain one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.
Luke 22:59 Then after about an (mias | μιᾶς | gen sg fem) hour had passed a certain other person kept insisting, saying, “Surely this person also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.”
Luke 23:39 One (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of the criminals hanging there kept deriding him, saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
Luke 24:1 But on the first (mia | μιᾷ | dat sg fem) day of the week, at early dawn, the women came to the tomb, bringing the anointing spices they had prepared.
Luke 24:18 Then one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of them, named Cleopas, answered, him, saying “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
John 1:3 All things were created by him, and apart from him not a single (hen | ἕν | nom sg neut) thing (hen | ἕν | nom sg neut) was created that has been created.
John 1:40 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of the two disciples who heard John and followed Jesus.
John 3:27 John responded, saying, “A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
John 6:8 One (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
John 6:22 On the next day the crowd was standing on the other side of the lake. They knew that only one (hen | ἕν | nom sg neut) boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had left without him.
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of you is a devil.”
John 6:71 (He was speaking of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of the twelve, was going to betray him.)
John 7:21 Jesus answered, saying to them, “I performed one (hen | ἕν | acc sg neut) work, and you are all astonished.
John 7:50 Nicodemus (he who had earlier come to Jesus), being one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of their number, put this question to them:
John 8:9 At this, those who had heard began to leave one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) by one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc), starting with the oldest; and Jesus alone was left, with the woman standing before him.
John 8:41 You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to him, “We have not been born as a result of fornication; we have only one (hena | ἕνα | acc sg masc) father, God himself.”
John 9:25 He replied, “Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know. One (hen | ἕν | acc sg neut) thing I do know: whereas I used to be blind, I now see.”
John 10:16 I have other sheep which are not of this fold. These too I must bring. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one (mia | μία | nom sg fem) flock, with one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) shepherd.
John 10:30 I and the Father are one.” (hen | ἕν | nom sg neut)
John 11:49 But one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.
John 11:50 Nor do you not realize that it is to your advantage that one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) man should die for the people and that the whole nation should not perish?”
John 11:52 and not only for the nation, but that he should gather into one (hen | ἕν | acc sg neut) the children of God who were scattered abroad.
John 12:2 So they made a dinner for him there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of those reclining at the table with him.
John 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one (heis | εἷς | nom sg masc) of his disciples (the one who would betray him) said,

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