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

Luke 13:5 No, I tell you; but unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) you repent, you will all perish just as they did.”
Luke 14:34 “Salt, then, is good; but if (ean | ἐάν | conj) salt has become insipid, with what shall it be seasoned?
Luke 15:8 “Or what woman, who has ten silver coins, should (ean | ἐάν | conj) she lose one coin, would not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search diligently until she finds it?
Luke 16:30 Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
Luke 16:31 He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded should (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone rise from the dead.’”
Luke 17:3 “Be on your guard! If (ean | ἐάν | conj) your brother sins, rebuke him, and if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he repents, forgive him.
Luke 17:4 And if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Luke 17:33 Whoever tries to retain his life for himself will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Luke 19:31 If (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone asks you why are you untying it, you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’”
Luke 19:40 He answered, “I tell you, if (ean | ἐάν | conj) these are silent, the stones will cry out.”
Luke 20:5 They reasoned among themselves, saying, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) we say, ‘From heaven,’ then he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
Luke 20:6 But if (ean | ἐάν | conj) we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
Luke 20:28 saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone’s brother dies, having a wife, but is childless, then his brother must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
Luke 22:67 and said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.” But he said to them, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) I tell you, you will not believe,
Luke 22:68 and if (ean | ἐάν | conj) I question you, you will not answer.
John 3:2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one is able to perform the miraculous signs that you are doing unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) God is with him.”
John 3:3 Jesus answered him, saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) a person is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if (ean | ἐάν | conj) I tell you about heavenly things?
John 3:27 John responded, saying, “A man cannot receive anything unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) it has been given to him from heaven.
John 4:48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!”
John 5:19 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only (ean | ἐάν | conj) what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son is doing likewise.
John 5:31 “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) I bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true.
John 5:43 I have come in the name of my Father and you do not accept me. If (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone else comes in his own name, him you will accept.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.