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

John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
John 6:4 (Now the Passover, the great festival of the Jews, was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) at hand.)
John 6:9 “There is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) they for so many?”
John 6:10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” (There was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) plenty of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.
John 6:14 So when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “This is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) truly the prophet who was to come into the world.”
John 6:20 But he said to them, “It (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) is (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) I; do not be afraid.”
John 6:22 On the next day the crowd was standing on the other side of the lake. They knew that only one boat had been (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) there, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had left without him.
John 6:24 So when the crowd realized that Jesus was (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) not there, nor his disciples, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
John 6:29 Jesus answered, saying to them, “This is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the work that God requires, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
John 6:31 Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness; as it is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
John 6:33 For the bread of God is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the bread of life; the one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.
John 6:39 And this is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the will of the one who sent me: that of all he has given me I should lose none but raise them up on the last day.
John 6:40 For this is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the will of my Father, that everyone who considers the Son and comes to believe in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:41 Then the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 6:42 And they were saying, “Is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
John 6:45 It stands (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be (esontai | ἔσονται | fut mid ind 3 pl) taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
John 6:46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is (ōn | ὤν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) from God; he has seen the Father.
John 6:48 I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the bread of life.
John 6:50 But here is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51 I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I will give is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) my flesh — given on behalf of the world.”
John 6:55 for my flesh is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) real food and my blood is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) real drink.
John 6:58 This is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like that which your fathers ate and died. The one who feeds on this bread will live forever.”
John 6:60 Therefore, when a number of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) difficult; who can understand it?”
John 6:62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) before?

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