Vocabulary Form
ἐάν
Definition

if, when

Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
350
GK
1569
Mnemonics

If Ian comes home when he should ...

Mnemonic Singing

When I survey the wonderous cross

Song
Notes

Introduces a dependent clause. ἐάν is a crasis of εἰ and ἄν. "Crasis" occurs when two words are "pushed together" to make one.

When ἐάν appears after a relative pronoun (ὅς), it has the effect of appending "-ever" to the end of the pronoun, just like ἄν. ὅς ἐὰν ... means "whoever ...."

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 16:25 For whoever resolves to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 16:26 For what advantage will there be for a person if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he gains the whole world yet forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?
Matthew 17:20 He said to them, “Because of the poverty of your faith. I tell you the truth, if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 18:3 said, “I tell you the truth, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
Matthew 18:5 And whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me.
Matthew 18:12 What do you think? If (ean | ἐάν | conj) a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the slopes and go in search of the one that has wandered off?
Matthew 18:13 And if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
Matthew 18:15 “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) your brother sins, go and point out his fault when the two of you are alone. If (ean | ἐάν | conj) he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
Matthew 18:16 But if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he does not listen, take one or two others with you so that every matter may be confirmed on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Matthew 18:17 If (ean | ἐάν | conj) he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he refuses to listen even to the church, you are to treat him as a pagan and a tax collector.
Matthew 18:18 “I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed in heaven.
Matthew 18:19 “Again, I tell you the truth, if (ean | ἐάν | conj) two of you on earth are in agreement about anything whatever you may ask, it will be done for you by my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 18:35 So also will my heavenly Father do to you, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) you each forgive your brother from your heart.”
Matthew 20:4 And to them he said, “You go into the vineyard as well, and whatever is fair I will pay you.’
Matthew 20:26 It will not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,
Matthew 21:3 If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone says anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Lord has need of them.’ And he will send them at once.”
Matthew 21:21 And Jesus answered them, “I tell you the truth, if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
Matthew 21:24 Jesus answered them, saying, “I also will ask you one question, and if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you give me an answer, then I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Matthew 21:25 The baptism of John, where did it come from? From heaven or from man?” They reasoned among themselves, saying, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
Matthew 21:26 But if (ean | ἐάν | conj) we say, ‘From man,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for they hold that John was a prophet.”
Matthew 22:9 Go therefore to the busy intersections and invite everyone you can find to the wedding feast.’
Matthew 22:24 They said, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If (ean | ἐάν | conj) a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.’
Matthew 23:3 Therefore put into practice and continue to do whatever they tell you; but do not imitate what they do, for they teach but do not practice.
Matthew 24:23 Then if (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ Do not believe him.