Vocabulary Form
εἰ
Definition
if
Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
502
GK
1623
Mnemonic Singing

My gracious Redeemer,
my Savior art Thou,
if ever I love Thee,
my Jesus

Song
Notes

This is not the same as εἶ, which means “you are.” Watch the accents carefully, because εἰ does not have its own accent. Like ἐάν, εἰ always introduces a dependent clause, and therefore you will not find the main subject or verb of the sentence in the εἰ clause.

Biblical Concordance

Mark 10:2 And Pharisees came up and asked him if (ei | εἰ | conj) it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife, in order to test him.
Mark 10:18 But Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except (ei | εἰ | conj) one — God.
Mark 11:13 And seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if (ei | εἰ | conj) he could find anything on it. And when he came to it, he found nothing but (ei | εἰ | conj) leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Mark 11:25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive if (ei | εἴ | conj) you have something against someone, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your transgressions.”
Mark 13:20 And unless (ei | εἰ | conj) the Lord had cut short the number of days, no one would survive; but on account of the elect, whom he chose, he cut short the days.
Mark 13:22 For false christs and false prophets will arise and will offer signs and wonders in order to deceive, if (ei | εἰ | conj) possible, the elect.
Mark 13:32 But of that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only (ei | εἰ | conj) the Father.
Mark 14:21 For the Son of Man is going as it is written of him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed — better for him if (ei | εἰ | conj) that man had not been born.”
Mark 14:29 Peter said to him, “Even though (ei | εἰ | conj) they all fall away, I will not!”
Mark 14:35 And going on a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that, if (ei | εἰ | conj) it were possible, the hour might pass him by.
Mark 15:36 Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a staff, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Permit me; let us see if (ei | εἰ | conj) Elijah will come to take him down.”
Mark 15:44 Pilate was surprised that (ei | εἰ | conj) he was already dead, so summoning the centurion, he asked him if (ei | εἰ | conj) he had been dead for a long time.
Luke 4:3 The devil said to him, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
Luke 4:9 Then he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here;
Luke 4:26 and to none of them was Elijah sent, only (ei | εἰ | conj) to Zarephath, in the territory of Sidon, to a widow woman.
Luke 4:27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, only (ei | εἰ | conj) Naaman, the Syrian.”
Luke 5:21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to ponder, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except (ei | εἰ | conj) God alone?”
Luke 5:36 He also told a parable to them: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does (ei | εἰ | conj), he both tears the new, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
Luke 5:37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does (ei | εἰ | conj), the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
Luke 6:4 how he entered the house of God, and taking the Bread of the Presence, he ate it and gave some to those with him — which is not lawful for any but (ei | εἰ | conj) the priests to eat?”
Luke 6:7 So the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him carefully to see whether (ei | εἰ | conj) he healed on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.
Luke 6:9 Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you whether (ei | εἰ | conj) it is lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?”
Luke 6:32 And if (ei | εἰ | conj) you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 7:39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him — that she is a sinner.”
Luke 8:51 When he went into the house he did not allow anyone to go in with him except (ei | εἰ | conj) Peter and John and James, and the father of the child and her mother.