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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 6:63 It (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) spirit and life.
John 6:64 But there are (eisin | εἰσίν | pres act ind 3 pl) some among you who do not believe.” For from the beginning Jesus knew those who would not believe, and who it was (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) who would betray him.
John 6:65 And he said, “For this reason I have said to you, ‘No one can come to me unless it is (ē | ᾖ | pres act subj 3 sg) granted to him by the Father.’”
John 6:69 and we have come to believe and to know that you are (ei | εἶ | pres act ind 2 sg) the Holy One of God.”
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) a devil.”
John 7:2 Now the Jewish festival of Tabernacles was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) near.
John 7:4 For no one acts in secret if he desires public recognition. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”
John 7:6 So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) always here.
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I am bearing witness against it that its works are (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) evil.
John 7:11 The Jews were looking for him at the festival, and saying, “Where is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) that man?”
John 7:12 And there (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) a lot of secret discussion about him among the crowds; some were saying, “He (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) a good man,” but others were saying, “No, to the contrary, he is leading people astray.”
John 7:16 Jesus answered, saying, “My teaching is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) not mine, but it comes from the one who sent me.
John 7:17 If anyone is willing to do God’s will, he will know about the teaching, whether it (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) comes (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
John 7:18 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own honor; but the one who seeks the honor of the one who sent him is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) truthful, and in him there (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) nothing false.
John 7:22 Moses gave you circumcision — not that it (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) from Moses, but from the patriarchs — and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
John 7:25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) not this the man whom they are trying to kill?
John 7:26 And look, he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Is it possible that our rulers know for sure that this man is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the Christ?
John 7:27 Yet we know where this man is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) from; when the Christ appears, no one will know where he is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) from.”
John 7:28 Then Jesus, as he was teaching in the temple, cried out, saying, know me, and you know where I am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) from? I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) true, and him you do not know;
John 7:29 but I know him, because I (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) from him and he it is who sent me.”
John 7:33 Then Jesus said, “I (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) will (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) be (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) with you for a little while longer, and then I am going back to the one who sent me.
John 7:34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg), you cannot go.”
John 7:36 What can it mean (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg), this saying of his: ‘You will look for me but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) you cannot go’?”
John 7:39 Now he said this about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) not yet present (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg), because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
John 7:40 After hearing these words, some of the crowd began to say, “This man really is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the prophet.”
John 7:41 Others were saying, “This man is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the Christ.” But others were saying, “Surely the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he?
John 7:42 Has not the scripture said that the Christ will be a descendant of David and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) born?”
John 7:49 As for this mob that does not know the law — they (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) are (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) accursed!”
John 7:50 Nicodemus (he who had earlier come to Jesus), being (ōn | ὤν | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) one of their number, put this question to them:
John 7:52 They replied to him, saying, “You too are (ei | εἶ | pres act ind 2 sg) not from Galilee, are you? Search and you will see that no prophet will arise from Galilee.”
John 8:9 At this, those who had heard began to leave one by one, starting with the oldest; and Jesus alone was left, with the woman standing (ousa | οὖσα | pres act ptcp nom sg fem) before him.
John 8:10 Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) they? Did no one condemn you?”
John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:13 Therefore the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) not valid.”
John 8:14 Jesus answered them, saying, “Even if I am bearing witness about myself, my testimony is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. You, on the other hand, do not know where I come from or where I am going.
John 8:16 But even if I do judge, my judgment is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) trustworthy, because it (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) is (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) not I (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
John 8:17 In your own law it is written that the testimony of two men is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) conclusive.
John 8:18 I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me also bears witness about me.”
John 8:19 Then they began asking him, “Where is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) your father?” Jesus replied, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father also.”
John 8:23 He said to them, “You are (este | ἐστέ | pres act ind 2 pl) from below; I am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) from above. You are (este | ἐστέ | pres act ind 2 pl) of this world; I am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) not of this world.
John 8:24 This is why I said to you that you would die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) he, you will die in your sins.”
John 8:25 So they said to him, “Who are (ei | εἶ | pres act ind 2 sg) you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
John 8:26 I have many things to say about you by way of judgment; but the one who sent me is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) truthful, and I say to the world only that which I have heard from him.”
John 8:28 So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) he. I do nothing on my own, but speak only those things the Father has taught me.
John 8:29 And the one who sent me is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.”
John 8:31 Jesus therefore said to the Jews who had put their trust in him, “If you continue in my word, you (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) are (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) truly my disciples,
John 8:33 They replied to him, “We (esmen | ἐσμεν | pres act ind 1 pl) are (esmen | ἐσμεν | pres act ind 1 pl) descendants of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who commits sin is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) a slave to sin.
John 8:36 If therefore the Son sets you free, you (esesthe | ἔσεσθε | fut mid ind 2 pl) will (esesthe | ἔσεσθε | fut mid ind 2 pl) be (esesthe | ἔσεσθε | fut mid ind 2 pl) free indeed.
John 8:37 I know that you (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) are (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) Abraham’s descendants; but you are intent on killing me, because my teaching makes no headway in you.

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