Forms of the word

Dictionary
εἰμί
Greek transliteration
eimi
Simplified transliteration
eimi
Principal Parts
(ἤμην), ἔσομαι, -, -, -, -

Numbers

Strong's number
1488
GK Number
1639

Statistics

Frequency in New Testament
2462
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
v-6b
Gloss
to be, exist, be present
Definition
to be, to exist, Jn. 1:1; 17:5; Mt. 6:30; Lk. 4:25, freq.; ἐστι(ν), it is possible, proper, Heb. 9:5; a simple linking verb (copula) to the subject and predicate, and therefore in itself affecting the force of the sentence only by its tense, mood, etc., Jn. 1:1; 15:1, freq.; it also forms a frequent circumlocution with the participles of the present and perfect of other verbs, Mt. 19:22; Mk. 2:6

Greek-English Concordance for εἰμί

Luke 4:25 But in truth I tell you, there (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) were (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, as a great famine spread throughout the whole land;
Luke 4:27 And there (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) were (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, only Naaman, the Syrian.”
Luke 4:31 And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) teaching them on the Sabbath;
Luke 4:32 and they were astonished at his teaching, because his message was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) with authority.
Luke 4:33 Now in the synagogue there was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice,
Luke 4:34 “Ha! What do you have to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are (ei | εἶ | pres act ind 2 sg) — the Holy One of God!”
Luke 4:38 After leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) suffering a severe fever, and they made a request to him on her behalf.
Luke 4:41 Also, demons came out from many, crying out and saying, “You are (ei | εἶ | pres act ind 2 sg) the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak, because they knew him to (einai | εἶναι | pres act inf ) be (einai | εἶναι | pres act inf ) the Christ.
Luke 4:44 So he kept (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
Luke 5:1 It happened that, when the crowd was pressing around him and listening to the word of God, that he was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) standing beside the lake of Gennesaret
Luke 5:3 He got into one of the boats, which was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) a sinful man!”
Luke 5:10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) partners with Simon. But Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you (esē | ἔσῃ | fut mid ind 2 sg) will (esē | ἔσῃ | fut mid ind 2 sg) be (esē | ἔσῃ | fut mid ind 2 sg) catching men.”
Luke 5:12 It happened that, when he was (einai | εἶναι | pres act inf ) in one of the cities, there was a man full of leprosy. And seeing Jesus, he fell on his face and implored him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
Luke 5:16 But he would (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) go off to wilderness places and pray.
Luke 5:17 It happened on one of those days when he was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) teaching, and sitting there were (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) Pharisees and teachers of the law who had (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and power from the Lord was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) there for him to heal,
Luke 5:18 that there were men carrying on a stretcher a man who was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) paralyzed. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.
Luke 5:21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to ponder, saying, “Who is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?”
Luke 5:23 Which is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) easier, to say, ‘Your sins have been forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?
Luke 5:29 And Levi made a great banquet for him in his house, and there was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) reclining at table with them.
Luke 5:34 So Jesus said to them, “Certainly you cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) with them?
Luke 5:39 And no one drinking the old desires the new; for he says, ‘The old is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) good.’”
Luke 6:3 In answer to them Jesus said, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who (ontes | ὄντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) were (ontes | ὄντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) with him?
Luke 6:5 Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) Lord of the Sabbath.”
Luke 6:6 It happened on another Sabbath that he went into the synagogue and began to teach. A man was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) there whose right hand was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) withered.

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