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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ἤ
Greek transliteration: 
ē
Simplified transliteration: 
e
Numbers
Strong's number: 
2228
GK Number: 
2445
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
343
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
particle
Gloss: 
or; (in a series) either...or; (in comparison) than
Definition: 
can function as a conj (298t), either, or, Mt. 6:24; after comparatives, and ἄλλος, ἕτερος, expressed or implied, than, Mt. 10:15; 18:8; Acts 17:21; 24:21; intensive after ἀλλά and πριν, Lk. 12:51; Mt. 1:18; it also serves to point an interrogation, Rom. 3:29

Greek-English Concordance for ἤ

Acts 28:17 And it happened that after three days Paul called together the leaders of the Jews. And when they gathered, he said to them: “My brothers, though I have done nothing against our people or (ē | ἤ | conj) the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
Acts 28:21 And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or (ē | ἤ | conj) spoken any bad about you.
Romans 1:21 Even though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or (ē | ἤ | conj) give him thanks, but they became futile in their speculations and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Romans 2:4 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) do you hold in contempt the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Romans 2:15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their conflicting thoughts accusing or (ē | ἤ | conj) else defending them,
Romans 3:1 What advantage then has the Jew? Or (ē | ἤ | conj) what is the value of circumcision?
Romans 3:29 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles as well? Yes, of Gentiles as well.
Romans 4:9 Therefore, is this blessedness for the circumcised alone, or (ē | ἤ | conj) is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, “It was to Abraham that faith was credited as righteousness.”
Romans 4:10 How then was it credited to him? Was it after he was circumcised or (ē | ἤ | conj) before? It was not after his circumcision but before.
Romans 4:13 For the promise that he would be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or (ē | ἤ | conj) to his descendants through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 6:3 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) do you not know that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or (ē | ἤ | conj) of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 7:1 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is binding on a person only so long as he lives?
Romans 8:35 Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can tribulation, or (ē | ἤ | conj) distress, or (ē | ἤ | conj) persecution, or (ē | ἤ | conj) famine, or (ē | ἤ | conj) nakedness, or (ē | ἤ | conj) danger, or (ē | ἤ | conj) sword?
Romans 9:11 even before they were born or had done anything either good or (ē | ἤ | conj) bad so that God’s purpose according to election might stand,
Romans 9:21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay some pottery for a special occasion and other for common use?
Romans 10:7 or (ē | ἤ | conj), ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
Romans 11:2 God has not repudiated his people whom he foreknew. Or (ē | ἤ | conj) do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
Romans 11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or (ē | ἤ | conj) who has been his counselor?
Romans 11:35 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) who has given to God that God must pay him back?
Romans 13:11 And live this way because you are aware of the time, that the hour has come for us to wake from sleep, for our salvation is nearer now than (ē | ἤ | particle) when we first believed.
Romans 14:4 Who are you to pass judgment on someone else’s servant? It is before his own master that he will stand or (ē | ἤ | conj) fall. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Romans 14:10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or (ē | ἤ | conj) again, why do you hold your brother in contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
Romans 14:13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but resolve instead, never to put an obstacle or (ē | ἤ | conj) a trap in a brother’s way.
1 Corinthians 1:13 Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or (ē | ἤ | conj) were you baptized in the name of Paul?
1 Corinthians 2:1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with excellence of speech or (ē | ἤ | conj) of wisdom as I told you about the secret purpose of God.
1 Corinthians 4:3 But for me it is a matter of the least consequence that I should be judged by you or (ē | ἤ | conj) by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.
1 Corinthians 4:21 What would you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of correction or (ē | ἤ | conj) with love in a spirit of gentleness?
1 Corinthians 5:10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or (ē | ἤ | conj) the greedy and swindlers, or (ē | ἤ | conj) idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is a sexually immoral or (ē | ἤ | conj) greedy person, an idolater, slanderer, drunkard, or (ē | ἤ | conj) swindler — not even to eat with such a one.
1 Corinthians 6:2 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try minor cases?
1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
1 Corinthians 6:16 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, “The two will become one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 6:19 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, and you are not your own?
1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than (ē | ἤ | particle) to burn with sexual passion.
1 Corinthians 7:11 (however if she does, let her remain unmarried or (ē | ἤ | conj) else be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or (ē | ἤ | conj) the sister is not bound. It is to peace that God has called us.
1 Corinthians 7:16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or (ē | ἤ | conj) how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
1 Corinthians 9:6 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) is it only I and Barnabas who have no right to refrain from working?
1 Corinthians 9:7 Who serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or (ē | ἤ | conj) who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
1 Corinthians 9:8 Am I saying these things from a merely human point of view? Or (ē | ἤ | conj) does not the Law say the same?
1 Corinthians 9:10 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) does he not speak entirely for our sake. To be sure, it was written for our sake, because the one plowing should plow in hope and the one threshing thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
1 Corinthians 9:15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this so that something will be done for me; for it would be better for me rather to die — no one shall take away my ground for boasting!
1 Corinthians 10:19 So what am I implying? That food offered to idols is anything, or (ē | ἤ | conj) that an idol is anything?
1 Corinthians 10:22 Or (ē | ἤ | conj) are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians 11:4 Any man who prays or (ē | ἤ | conj) prophesies with his head covered disgraces his head,
1 Corinthians 11:5 but any wife who prays or (ē | ἤ | conj) prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same as a woman who has her head shaved.
1 Corinthians 11:6 For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut her hair short. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut short or (ē | ἤ | conj) have her head shaved, she should cover her head.
1 Corinthians 11:22 Can it be that you do not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or (ē | ἤ | conj) are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? For this I will not commend you.
1 Corinthians 11:27 Whoever, therefore, eats this bread or (ē | ἤ | conj) drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

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