For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ἐάν
Vocabulary form:
ejavn
Definition:
if, when
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
350
GK:
1569
Mnemonics:
If Ian comes home when he should ...
Mnemonic Singing:
When I survey the wonderous cross
Notes:
Introduces a dependent clause. ejavn is a crasis of eij and a[n. "Crasis" occurs when two words are "pushed together" to make one.
When ejavn appears after a relative pronoun (o{V), it has the effect of appending "-ever" to the end of the pronoun, just like a[n. o{V eja;n ... means "whoever ...."
Biblical Concordance
| Luke 13:5 | No, I tell you; but unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) you repent, you will all perish just as they did.” |
| Luke 14:34 | “Salt, then, is good; but if (ean | ἐάν | conj) salt has become insipid, with what shall it be seasoned? |
| Luke 15:8 | “Or what woman, who has ten silver coins, should (ean | ἐάν | conj) she lose one coin, would not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search diligently until she finds it? |
| Luke 16:30 | Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ |
| Luke 16:31 | He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded should (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone rise from the dead.’” |
| Luke 17:3 | “Be on your guard! If (ean | ἐάν | conj) your brother sins, rebuke him, and if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he repents, forgive him. |
| Luke 17:4 | And if (ean | ἐάν | conj) he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” |
| Luke 17:33 | Whoever tries to retain his life for himself will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. |
| Luke 19:31 | If (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone asks you why are you untying it, you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’” |
| Luke 19:40 | He answered, “I tell you, if (ean | ἐάν | conj) these are silent, the stones will cry out.” |
| Luke 20:5 | They reasoned among themselves, saying, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) we say, ‘From heaven,’ then he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ |
| Luke 20:6 | But if (ean | ἐάν | conj) we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.” |
| Luke 20:28 | saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone’s brother dies, having a wife, but is childless, then his brother must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. |
| Luke 22:67 | and said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.” But he said to them, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) I tell you, you will not believe, |
| Luke 22:68 | and if (ean | ἐάν | conj) I question you, you will not answer. |
| John 3:2 | This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one is able to perform the miraculous signs that you are doing unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) God is with him.” |
| John 3:3 | Jesus answered him, saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) a person is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” |
| John 3:5 | Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. |
| John 3:12 | If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if (ean | ἐάν | conj) I tell you about heavenly things? |
| John 3:27 | John responded, saying, “A man cannot receive anything unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) it has been given to him from heaven. |
| John 4:48 | Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!” |
| John 5:19 | Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only (ean | ἐάν | conj) what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son is doing likewise. |
| John 5:31 | “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) I bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true. |
| John 5:43 | I have come in the name of my Father and you do not accept me. If (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone else comes in his own name, him you will accept. |
| John 6:44 | No one can come to me unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. |
| John 6:51 | I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh — given on behalf of the world.” |
| John 6:53 | Jesus therefore said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will have no life in you. |
| John 6:62 | Then what if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? |
| John 6:65 | And he said, “For this reason I have said to you, ‘No one can come to me unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) it is granted to him by the Father.’” |
| John 7:17 | If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone is willing to do God’s will, he will know about the teaching, whether it comes from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. |
| John 7:37 | On the last day of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. |
| John 7:51 | “Surely our law does not judge a man unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) it first hears from him and finds out what he is doing, does it?” |
| John 8:16 | But even if (ean | ἐάν | conj) I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. |
| John 8:24 | This is why I said to you that you would die in your sins, for if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.” |
| John 8:31 | Jesus therefore said to the Jews who had put their trust in him, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, |
| John 8:36 | If (ean | ἐάν | conj) therefore the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. |
| John 8:51 | I tell you the solemn truth, if (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.” |
| John 8:52 | The Jews therefore said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ |
| John 8:54 | Jesus replied, “If (ean | ἐάν | conj) I glorify myself, my glory amounts to nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ |
| John 9:22 | His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone should confess Jesus to be the Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue. |
| John 9:31 | We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him. |
| John 10:9 | I am the gate. If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone enters through me, he will be saved; he will come in and go out and find pasture. |
| John 11:9 | Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If (ean | ἐάν | conj) a person walks during the day, he will not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. |
| John 11:10 | But if (ean | ἐάν | conj) someone walks during the night, he will stumble, because the light is not in him.” |
| John 11:40 | Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if (ean | ἐάν | conj) you would believe you would see the glory of God?” |
| John 11:48 | If (ean | ἐάν | conj) we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.” |
| John 11:57 | Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone knew where Jesus was he should let them know, so they might arrest him. |
| John 12:24 | I tell you the solemn truth, unless (ean | ἐάν | conj) a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single kernel; but if (ean | ἐάν | conj) it dies it produces a great harvest. |
| John 12:26 | If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone would serve me, he must follow me; and where I am, my servant will be also. If (ean | ἐάν | conj) anyone would serve me, the Father will honor him. |
| John 12:32 | And I, when (ean | ἐάν | conj) I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” |
Mnemonics
If and when Ian comes...
If and when Ian comes...