εἰ | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

εἰ

Definition

Erasmian

Modern

Frequency

502

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

Luke 9:13	But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless (ei \| εἰ \| conj) we go and buy food for all these people.”
Luke 9:23	Then he said to all, “If (ei \| εἴ \| conj) someone wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and let him take up his cross daily, and let him follow me.
Luke 10:6	And if there is a son of peace there, your peace will rest upon him; but if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) not, it will return to you.
Luke 10:13	Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) the mighty works that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 10:22	All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except (ei \| εἰ \| conj) the Father, or who the Father is except (ei \| εἰ \| conj) the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”
Luke 11:8	I say to you, even though (ei \| εἰ \| conj) he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the prospect of being put to shame he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
Luke 11:13	If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Luke 11:18	And if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) Satan also has been divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that by Beelzebul I cast out demons.
Luke 11:19	And if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) by Beelzebul I cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Luke 11:20	But if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Luke 11:29	As the crowds were getting larger, Jesus began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except (ei \| εἰ \| conj) the sign of Jonah.
Luke 11:36	If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) then your whole body is full of light, having no part of it dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”
Luke 12:26	If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) then, you are unable to accomplish such an insignificant thing, why do you worry about other things?
Luke 12:28	If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!
Luke 12:39	“Know this: that if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) the master of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would not have allowed his house be broken into.
Luke 12:49	“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!
Luke 13:9	Perhaps it will bear fruit next year; but if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) not, you may remove it.’”
Luke 13:23	Someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them,
Luke 14:26	“If (ei \| εἴ \| conj) anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:28	“For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, whether (ei \| εἰ \| conj) he has enough to bring it to completion;
Luke 14:31	Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether (ei \| εἰ \| conj) he is able with ten thousand troops to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32	And if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) not, while he is yet a great way off, he will send a delegation and ask for terms of peace.
Luke 16:11	Therefore if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) in unrighteous wealth you have not been faithful, who will entrust to you that which is of true value?
Luke 16:12	And if (ei \| εἰ \| conj) you have not been faithful in what belongs to another, who will give you what is to be your own?
Luke 16:31	He said to him, ‘If (ei \| εἰ \| conj) they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded should someone rise from the dead.’”