Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

εἰ

Vocabulary form: 
εἰ
Definition: 

if

Frequency: 
502
GK: 
1623
Mnemonic Singing: 

My gracious Redeemer,
my Savior art Thou,
if ever I love Thee,
my Jesus 'tis now.

Notes: 

This is not the same as ei that means "you are." Watch the accents here carefully, because eij does not have an accent. Like ejavn, eij always introduces a dependent clause, and therefore you will not find the main subject or verb of the sentence in the eij 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.’”
Luke 17:2 It is better for him if (ei | εἰ | conj) a millstone is hung around his neck and he is cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamore, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
Luke 17:18 Were they not found, so as to return and give praise to God, except (ei | εἰ | conj) this foreigner?”
Luke 18:4 He didn’t want to for a time. But later on he said to himself, ‘Though (ei | εἰ | conj) I neither fear God nor have regard for people,
Luke 18:19 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except (ei | εἰ | conj) one — God.
Luke 19:8 Zacchaeus, as he stood there, said to the Lord, “Look, half of what I own, Lord, I will give to the poor, and if (ei | εἴ | conj) I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will repay fourfold.”
Luke 19:42 saying, “Would (ei | εἰ | conj) that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 22:42 saying, “Father, if (ei | εἰ | conj) you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet, not my will, but yours be done.”
Luke 22:49 When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said, “Lord, shall (ei | εἰ | conj) we strike with the sword?”
Luke 22:67 and said, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you are the Messiah, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,
Luke 23:6 Now when Pilate heard this, he asked whether (ei | εἰ | conj) the man was a Galilean.
Luke 23:31 For if (ei | εἰ | conj) they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Luke 23:35 The people stood by, watching. The rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if (ei | εἰ | conj) he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!”
Luke 23:37 and saying, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!”
John 1:25 So they asked him, saying, “Why then are you baptizing, if (ei | εἰ | conj) you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
John 3:12 If (ei | εἰ | conj) I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
John 3:13 No one has gone up to heaven except (ei | εἰ | conj) the one who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man.
John 4:10 Jesus answered her, saying, “If (ei | εἰ | conj) you had known the gift of God and who it was that said to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 5:46 If (ei | εἰ | conj) you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
John 5:47 But if (ei | εἰ | conj) you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
John 6:22 On the next day the crowd was standing on the other side of the lake. They knew that only (ei | εἰ | conj) one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had left without him.
John 6:46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except (ei | εἰ | conj) the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
John 7:4 For no one acts in secret if he desires public recognition. If (ei | εἰ | conj) you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”
John 7:23 If (ei | εἰ | conj) a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?
John 8:19 Then they began asking him, “Where is your father?” Jesus replied, “You know neither me nor my Father. If (ei | εἰ | conj) you knew me you would know my Father also.”

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