Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

εἰς

Vocabulary form: 
eijV
Definition: 

into, in, among

Frequency: 
1,767
GK: 
1650
Cognates: 

Eisegesis is poor hermeneutical practice because it reads a meaning into the text instead of drawing it out of (exegesis) the text.

Mnemonic Singing: 

Changed from glory into glory,
'til in heaven we take our place.

Notes: 

In classical Greek there was littleoverlap in meaning between eijV ("into") and ejn ("in"), but in Koine Greek there is more.

Biblical Concordance

Acts 23:11 The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Jerusalem, so must you also testify in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Rome.”
Acts 23:15 So now you and the council give notice to the commanding officer to bring him down to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) you, as though you were going to examine his case more accurately; and we will be ready to kill him before he gets there.”
Acts 23:16 But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the ambush, he went and entered the barracks and reported it to Paul.
Acts 23:20 And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the council, as though the case against him was going to be examined more closely.
Acts 23:28 And wanting to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) their council.
Acts 23:30 And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to speak against him to you.”
Acts 23:31 So the soldiers, according to the directions given to them, took Paul and brought him by night to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Antipatris.
Acts 23:32 The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the barracks.
Acts 23:33 When the horsemen arrived in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and turned over Paul to him.
Acts 24:11 As you are able to verify for yourself, it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Jerusalem,
Acts 24:15 having a hope in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) God, which these men themselves accept, that there is to be a resurrection both of the just and of the unjust.
Acts 24:17 “Now, after several years, I came to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) my people bringing gifts for the poor and presenting offerings,
Acts 24:24 After some days Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Christ Jesus.
Acts 25:1 Three days after arriving in the province, Festus went up to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Jerusalem from Caesarea.
Acts 25:3 and asking him to do them a favor against Paul; they urged Festus to transfer him to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Jerusalem, for they were forming a plot to kill him along the way.
Acts 25:4 So then Festus replied that Paul was being kept at (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Caesarea but that he himself intended to go there shortly.
Acts 25:6 After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Caesarea, and the next day he took his seat on the judge’s bench and ordered Paul to be brought.
Acts 25:8 Paul argued in his defense, “Neither against (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the law of the Jews, nor against (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the temple, nor against (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Caesar have I committed any offense.”
Acts 25:9 But Festus, wanting to curry favor with the Jews, responded to Paul, saying, “Do you want to go up to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?”
Acts 25:13 Now after some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice came down to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.
Acts 25:15 When I came to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a guilty verdict against him.
Acts 25:20 Since I was uncertain about how to investigate such questions, I asked if he wanted to go to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Jerusalem to be tried there on these charges.
Acts 25:21 But when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
Acts 25:23 So on the next day when Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall along with the commanding officers and the prominent men of the city, and when Festus had given the order, Paul was brought in.
Acts 26:6 And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) our fathers,
Acts 26:7 to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) which our twelve tribes hope to attain, worshipping strenuously night and day. It is for this hope, your Excellency, that I am being accused by Jews!
Acts 26:11 And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and since I was so vehemently angry at them, I pursued them even to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) foreign cities.
Acts 26:12 “On one of these journeys I was going to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
Acts 26:14 And when we had all fallen to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
Acts 26:16 But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) this purpose, to appoint you a servant and witness both to the things in which you have seen and to those in which I will appear to you.
Acts 26:17 I will rescue you from your people and from the Gentiles, to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) whom I am sending you
Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, that they turn from darkness to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) me.’
Acts 26:24 As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, “You are out of your mind, Paul! Much learning is driving you insane!” (eis | εἰς | prep-acc)
Acts 27:1 And when it was decided that we would sail for (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion, named Julius, of the Augustan Cohort.
Acts 27:2 And embarking on a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica was with us.
Acts 27:3 The next day we put in at (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Sidon; and Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends and be cared for.
Acts 27:5 And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Myra in Lycia.
Acts 27:6 There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Italy and put us on board it.
Acts 27:8 Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) a place called Fair Havens, near to which was the city Lasea.
Acts 27:12 And since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority made a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they might be able to reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.
Acts 27:17 After hoisting it up, they passed cables under the ship to hold it together. Then, fearing that they would run aground on (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, and thus they let the ship be driven along.
Acts 27:26 But we must run aground on (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) some island.”
Acts 27:30 But when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had lowered the dinghy into (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the sea pretending they intended to let down anchors from the bow,
Acts 27:38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing the wheat out into (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the sea.
Acts 27:39 Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay that had a beach, on (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) which they planned, if possible, to run the ship ashore.
Acts 27:40 So they cut loose the anchors, left them in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the sea, and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the beach.
Acts 27:41 But caught in (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) some crosscurrents, they ran the ship aground; the bow stuck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the force of the waves.
Acts 28:5 But Paul shook the creature off into (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) the fire and suffered no harm.
Acts 28:6 They were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but when they waited a long time and saw no misfortune happen to (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
Acts 28:12 And when we put in at (eis | εἰς | prep-acc) Syracuse, we stayed there three days.

Pages