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

John 12:47 If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I am not the one who will judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
John 13:8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”
John 13:17 If you know these things, blessed are you if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you put them into practice.
John 13:35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you have love for one another.”
John 14:3 And if (ean | ἐάν | conj) I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am, there you may be also.
John 14:14 If (ean | ἐάν | conj) you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
John 14:15 “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 14:23 Jesus answered him, saying, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling place with him.
John 15:4 Abide in me and I will abide in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit by itself, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) you abide in me.
John 15:6 If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone does not abide in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; men gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
John 15:7 If (ean | ἐάν | conj) you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
John 15:10 If (ean | ἐάν | conj) you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
John 15:14 You are my friends if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you do the things I command you.
John 16:7 Nevertheless I am telling you the truth; it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if (ean | ἐάν | conj) I do not go away, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if (ean | ἐάν | conj) I go away, I will send him to you.
John 19:12 From that point on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews kept shouting out, saying, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) you release this man, you are no ‘Friend of Caesar.’ Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
John 20:25 So the other disciples kept saying to him, “We have seen the Master!” But he said to them, “Unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the wound left by the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe!”
John 21:22 Jesus replied, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) I should want him to remain alive until I come back, what concern is that to you? You are to follow me!”
John 21:23 So the word spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but rather, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) I should want him to remain alive until I come back, what concern is that to you?”
John 21:25 Now there are many other things which Jesus did as well; if (ean | ἐάν | conj) they were written down one after the other, I imagine that not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.
Acts 3:23 And it will be that every soul who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed from among the people.’
Acts 5:38 So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and leave them alone, for if (ean | ἐάν | conj) this plan or this undertaking be of men, it will fail;
Acts 7:7 But, ‘Whatever nation they serve as slaves, I will punish,’ said God, ‘and after this they will come out and they will worship me in this place.’
Acts 8:19 saying, “Give me also this power, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 8:31 And he said, “How could I unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone guide me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
Acts 9:2 and requested from him letters to Damascus addressed to the synagogues, that if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he found any who were of the Way, men or women, he should bring them bound to Jerusalem.