ἐάω
to allow
also: permit, let fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 4 times (36%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (18%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1439 appears — 11 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 4:41 εἴα impf act ind 3sg Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
- Luke 22:51 ἐᾶτε pres act impv 2pl But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"--and he touched his ear, and healed him.
Acts 7 verses
- Acts 14:16 εἴασεν aor act ind 3sg who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
- Acts 16:7 εἴασεν aor act ind 3sg When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them.
- Acts 19:30 εἴων impf act ind 3pl When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn't allow him.
- Acts 23:32 ἐάσαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.
- Acts 27:32 εἴασαν aor act ind 3pl Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.
- Acts 27:40 εἴων impf act ind 3pl Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
- Acts 28:4 εἴασεν aor act ind 3sg When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."
1 Corinthians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb εαω centers on the idea of “to allow.” Acts dominates its distribution — 7 of 11 verses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 11 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 24:43. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses; alongside “to allow” it spans “permit” and “let”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1439 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 82%
- Gospels 3 verses · 27%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Suffered 4×, Let 2×
- American Standard Version: Suffered 3×, Let 2×, They left 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Let 2×, Would not allow 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Allow 2×, Permitting 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1439 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1439 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1439 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1439 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to allow, permit, let
- to allow one to do as he wishes, not to restrain, to let alone
- to give up, let go, leave
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; to let be that is permit or leave alone : - commit leave let (alone) suffer. See also G1436 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G1439 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εἴασεν eíasen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 24:43 | 4 |
| εἴων eíōn | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 19:30 | 2 |
| εἴα eía | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 4:41 | 1 |
| εἴασαν eíasan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 27:32 | 1 |
| ἐάσαντες eásantes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 23:32 | 1 |
| ἐάσει eásei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 10:13 | 1 |
| ἐᾶτε eâte | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 22:51 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1439, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εαω appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 10 books.
- 14
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 38:16 ἐάω
- Exodus 32:10 ἐάω
- Deuteronomy 9:14 ἐάω
- Joshua 19:47 ἐάω
- Judges 11:37 ἐάω
- 2 Samuel 15:34 ἐάω
- Esther 3:8 ἐάω
- Job 7:19 ἐάω
- Jeremiah 41:11 ἐάω
- Daniel 2:44 ἐάω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1439) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 38:16 ἐάω He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you:" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
- Exodus 32:10 ἐάω Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."
- Deuteronomy 9:14 ἐάω let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
- Joshua 19:47 ἐάω The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
- Judges 11:37 ἐάω She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
- 2 Samuel 15:34 ἐάω but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
- Esther 3:8 ἐάω Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them.
- Job 7:19 ἐάω How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
- Job 9:18 ἐάω He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
- Job 9:28 ἐάω I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
- Job 10:20 ἐάω Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
- Job 31:34 ἐάω Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--
- Jeremiah 41:11 ἐάω But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
- Daniel 2:44 ἐάω In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1439) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
