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εἰμί

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
εἰμί
Greek transliteration: 
eimi
Simplified transliteration: 
eimi
Principal Parts: 
(ἤμην), ἔσομαι, -, -, -, -
Numbers
Strong's number: 
1488
GK Number: 
1639
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
2462
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
v-6b
Gloss: 
to be, exist, be present
Definition: 
to be, to exist, Jn. 1:1; 17:5; Mt. 6:30; Lk. 4:25, freq.; ἐστι(ν), it is possible, proper, Heb. 9:5; a simple linking verb (copula) to the subject and predicate, and therefore in itself affecting the force of the sentence only by its tense, mood, etc., Jn. 1:1; 15:1, freq.; it also forms a frequent circumlocution with the participles of the present and perfect of other verbs, Mt. 19:22; Mk. 2:6

Greek-English Concordance for εἰμί

John 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people should worship is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) in Jerusalem.”
John 4:22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) from the Jews.
John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) here already, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for indeed the Father is seeking just such people to be his worshipers.
John 4:26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) he.”
John 4:29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could this man be (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the Messiah?”
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish the work he gave me to do.
John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘There (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) are (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) still four months and then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields; they (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) are (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) white, ready for harvest.
John 4:37 For in this the saying is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
John 4:42 They said to the woman, “No longer is it because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard him for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the Savior of the world.”
John 4:46 So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. Now in Capernaum there was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) a certain officer in the royal service whose son was ill.
John 5:1 After this there was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, having covered colonnades.
John 5:5 One man who was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
John 5:9 And immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) a Sabbath.
John 5:10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.
John 5:12 They questioned him, “Who is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
John 5:13 However, the man who had been healed did not know who it was (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg), for Jesus had slipped away, there (ontos | ὄντος | pres act ptcp gen sg masc) being (ontos | ὄντος | pres act ptcp gen sg masc) a crowd in that place.
John 5:15 The man went away and told the Jews that it (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) was (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) Jesus who had made him well.
John 5:25 “I tell you the solemn truth, the hour is coming and is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
John 5:27 and he has given him authority to execute judgment because he (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) the Son of Man.
John 5:30 I can do nothing on my own; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) just because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 5:31 “If I bear witness about myself, my testimony is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) not deemed true.
John 5:32 There (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) another who bears witness about me, and I know that the witness that he bears about me is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) true.
John 5:35 He was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) a lamp that was burning and giving light, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
John 5:39 “You study the Scriptures because you think that by them you will have eternal life; and it (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) is (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) they that bear witness about me,
John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
John 6:4 (Now the Passover, the great festival of the Jews, was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) at hand.)
John 6:9 “There is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) they for so many?”
John 6:10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” (There was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) plenty of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.
John 6:14 So when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “This is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) truly the prophet who was to come into the world.”
John 6:20 But he said to them, “It (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) is (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) I; do not be afraid.”
John 6:22 On the next day the crowd was standing on the other side of the lake. They knew that only one boat had been (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) there, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had left without him.
John 6:24 So when the crowd realized that Jesus was (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) not there, nor his disciples, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
John 6:29 Jesus answered, saying to them, “This is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the work that God requires, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
John 6:31 Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness; as it is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
John 6:33 For the bread of God is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the bread of life; the one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.
John 6:39 And this is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the will of the one who sent me: that of all he has given me I should lose none but raise them up on the last day.
John 6:40 For this is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the will of my Father, that everyone who considers the Son and comes to believe in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:41 Then the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 6:42 And they were saying, “Is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
John 6:45 It stands (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be (esontai | ἔσονται | fut mid ind 3 pl) taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
John 6:46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is (ōn | ὤν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) from God; he has seen the Father.
John 6:48 I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the bread of life.
John 6:50 But here is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51 I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I will give is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) my flesh — given on behalf of the world.”
John 6:55 for my flesh is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) real food and my blood is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) real drink.
John 6:58 This is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like that which your fathers ate and died. The one who feeds on this bread will live forever.”
John 6:60 Therefore, when a number of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) difficult; who can understand it?”
John 6:62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) before?

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