ἐάν | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

ἐάν

Definition

if, when

Erasmian

Modern

Frequency

350

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

Acts 13:41	‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you will not believe, even (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) though someone should tell you in detail.’”
Acts 15:1	Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Acts 26:5	for they have known from the first, if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) they are willing to go on record, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest party of our religious system.
Acts 27:31	Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “If (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) these men do not remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
Romans 2:25	to be sure, circumcision is of value if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) you practice the law, but if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Romans 2:26	Therefore if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) the uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
Romans 7:2	Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
Romans 7:3	Accordingly, if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
Romans 9:27	Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Even if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) the number of the sons of Israel were as the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved;
Romans 10:9	that if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:15	And how are they to proclaim the message unless (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) they are sent? As it is written, “How timely are the feet of those who preach good news!”
Romans 11:22	Consider therefore the kindness and the severity of God — severity to those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
Romans 11:23	And even they, if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
Romans 12:20	To the contrary, “if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) your enemy is hungry, feed him; if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Romans 13:4	for he is a servant of God for your good. But if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) you do what is wrong, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain. he is a servant of God, an avenger to carry out wrath on the one who does wrong.
Romans 14:8	if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) we live, we live for the Lord, and if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) we die, we die for the Lord. So then, whether (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) we live or whether (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) we die, we belong to the Lord.
Romans 14:23	But the one who doubts is condemned if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.
Romans 15:24	When I do go to Spain, I hope to see you as I pass through and be helped on my way there by you, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.
1 Corinthians 4:15	For though (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) you have innumerable guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 4:19	But I will come to you soon, if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) the Lord wills, and I will find out not the speech of these arrogant people but their power.
1 Corinthians 5:11	But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) who bears the name of brother if he is a sexually immoral or greedy person, an idolater, slanderer, drunkard, or swindler — not even to eat with such a one.
1 Corinthians 6:4	So if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) you have ordinary cases, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church?
1 Corinthians 6:18	Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:8	Now to the unmarried and to the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am.
1 Corinthians 7:11	(however if (ean \| ἐάν \| conj) she does, let her remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.