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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 13:35 By this all people will know that you (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) are (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 14:2 In my Father’s house there (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) are (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) many dwelling places; if that were not the case, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg), there you may (ēte | ἦτε | pres act subj 2 pl) be (ēte | ἦτε | pres act subj 2 pl) also.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:9 Jesus said to him, “Have (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) I (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) been (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) so long a time with you, Philip, and you still do not know me? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father residing in me is doing his works.
John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete, to be (ē | ᾖ | pres act subj 3 sg) with you forever,
John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you will know him, for he will dwell with you and will (estai | ἔσται | fut mid ind 3 sg) be (estai | ἔσται | fut mid ind 3 sg) in you.
John 14:21 The one who has my commandments and keeps them is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
John 14:24 The one who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word you are hearing is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) not mine, but is from the Father’s who sent me.
John 14:28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) greater than I.
John 15:1 “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the true vine, and my Father is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) the vine-grower.
John 15:3 By this time you are (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) clean because of the message that I have spoken to you.
John 15:5 I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) the vine; you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may (ē | ᾖ | pres act subj 3 sg) be (ē | ᾖ | pres act subj 3 sg) in you and that your joy may be complete.
John 15:12 “This is (estin | ἐστίν | pres act ind 3 sg) my commandment: Love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:14 You are (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) my friends if you do the things I command you.
John 15:19 If you (ēte | ἦτε | imperf act ind 2 pl) belonged (ēte | ἦτε | imperf act ind 2 pl) to the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you (este | ἐστέ | pres act ind 2 pl) do (este | ἐστέ | pres act ind 2 pl) not belong (este | ἐστέ | pres act ind 2 pl) to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
John 15:20 Remember the saying that I told you, ‘The servant is (estin | ἔστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) not greater than his master.’ If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours as well.
John 15:27 And you also are to bear witness because you (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) have (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) been (este | ἐστε | pres act ind 2 pl) with me from the beginning.
John 16:4 But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you will remember that I told you about them. “I did not tell you these things at the start because I (ēmēn | ἤμην | imperf mid ind 1 sg) was (ēmēn | ἤμην | imperf mid ind 1 sg) with you.
John 16:15 All that the Father has is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) mine; that is why I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
John 16:17 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”
John 16:18 So they kept saying, “What is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) this ‘little while’ of which he speaks? We do not understand what he is talking about.”
John 16:24 Up till now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be (ē | ᾖ | pres act subj 3 sg) complete.
John 16:32 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own place, and you will leave me alone. And yet I (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) not alone, because the Father is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) with me.
John 17:3 And this is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.
John 17:5 and now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory that I had with you before the world began (einai | εἶναι | pres act inf ).
John 17:6 “I have made your name known to the men you gave me out of the world. They (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) were (ēsan | ἦσαν | imperf act ind 3 pl) yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
John 17:7 Now they have come to know that everything that you have given me is (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) from you;
John 17:9 I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, for they (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) are (eisin | εἰσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) yours;
John 17:10 and all mine are (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) yours, and yours are mine, and I have been glorified in them.
John 17:11 I (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) no longer in the world, but they are (eisin | εἰσίν | pres act ind 3 pl) in the world, and I am on my way to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, the name that you have given me, so that they may be (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) one, just as we are one.
John 17:12 While I was (ēmēn | ἤμην | imperf mid ind 1 sg) with them, I protected them in your name, which you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they (eisin | εἰσίν | pres act ind 3 pl) do (eisin | εἰσίν | pres act ind 3 pl) not belong (eisin | εἰσίν | pres act ind 3 pl) to the world, just as I do (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) not belong (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) to the world.
John 17:16 They (eisin | εἰσίν | pres act ind 3 pl) do (eisin | εἰσίν | pres act ind 3 pl) not belong (eisin | εἰσίν | pres act ind 3 pl) to the world, just as I do (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) not belong (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg) to the world.
John 17:17 Consecrate them by the truth; your word is (estin | ἐστιν | pres act ind 3 sg) truth.
John 17:19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) consecrated by the truth.
John 17:21 that they (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) may (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) all be (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) be (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:22 And the glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) one just as we are one,
John 17:23 I in them and you in me, that they may be (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and that you love them even as you love me.
John 17:24 Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) be (ōsin | ὦσιν | pres act subj 3 pl) with me where I am (eimi | εἰμί | pres act ind 1 sg), so they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
John 17:26 I have made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may (ē | ᾖ | pres act subj 3 sg) be (ē | ᾖ | pres act subj 3 sg) in them, and I in them.”
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley, where there was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) an olive grove, into which he entered with his disciples.
John 18:5 They answered him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them, “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) he.” Now Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
John 18:6 When Jesus said to them, “I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) he,” they all drew back and fell to the ground.
John 18:8 Jesus replied, “I told you that I am (eimi | εἰμι | pres act ind 1 sg) he. So if you are looking for me, let these men go.”
John 18:10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) Malchus.
John 18:13 They took him first to Annas, for he was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) high priest that year.
John 18:14 Caiaphas was (ēn | ἦν | imperf act ind 3 sg) the man who had advised the Jews that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.

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