εἰ
if
G1487
Strong's Greek
ei
Transliteration
/i/
Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT
491
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Thayer Definition
1. if, whether
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Conditional
- A particle introducing a condition (“if”).
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Acts 31 verses
- Acts 19:2 εἰ εἰ cond cond He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."
- Acts 19:38 εἰ cond If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
- Acts 19:39 εἰ cond But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
- Acts 20:16 εἰ cond For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
- Acts 21:37 εἰ cond As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek?
- Acts 22:25 εἰ cond When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"
- Acts 23:9 εἰ cond A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"
- Acts 24:19 εἴ cond They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
- Acts 25:5 εἴ cond "Let them therefore," said he, "that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him."
- Acts 25:11 εἰ εἰ cond cond For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"
- Acts 25:20 εἰ cond Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.
- Acts 26:8 εἰ cond Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
- Acts 26:23 εἰ εἰ cond cond how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."
- Acts 26:32 εἰ cond Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."
- Acts 27:39 εἰ cond When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
Romans 38 verses
- Romans 2:17 εἰ cond Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
- Romans 3:3 εἰ cond For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
- Romans 3:5 εἰ cond But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
- Romans 3:7 εἰ cond For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
- Romans 4:2 εἰ cond For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
- Romans 4:14 εἰ cond For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
- Romans 5:10 εἰ cond For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
- Romans 5:15 εἰ cond But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
- Romans 5:17 εἰ cond For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
- Romans 6:5 εἰ cond For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
- Romans 6:8 εἰ cond But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
- Romans 7:7 εἰ εἰ cond cond What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
- Romans 7:16 εἰ cond But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
- Romans 7:20 εἰ cond But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
- Romans 8:9 εἰ cond But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
- Romans 8:10 εἰ cond If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- Romans 8:11 εἰ cond But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
- Romans 8:13 εἰ εἰ cond cond For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Romans 8:17 εἰ cond and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
- Romans 8:25 εἰ cond But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
- Romans 8:31 εἰ cond What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Romans 9:22 εἰ cond What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
- Romans 9:29 εἰ cond As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And would have been made like Gomorrah."
- Romans 11:6 εἰ cond And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
- Romans 11:12 εἰ cond Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
- Romans 11:15 εἰ εἰ cond cond For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
- Romans 11:16 εἰ εἰ cond cond If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
- Romans 11:17 Εἰ cond But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
- Romans 11:18 εἰ cond don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
- Romans 11:21 εἰ cond for if God didn't spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
- Romans 11:24 εἰ cond For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
- Romans 12:18 εἰ cond If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
- Romans 13:1 εἰ cond Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
- Romans 13:8 εἰ cond Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:9 εἴ cond For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
- Romans 14:14 εἰ cond I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
- Romans 14:15 εἰ cond Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
- Romans 15:27 εἰ cond Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
1 Corinthians 56 verses
- 1 Corinthians 1:14 εἰ cond I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
- 1 Corinthians 1:16 εἴ cond (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)
- 1 Corinthians 2:2 εἰ cond For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
- 1 Corinthians 2:8 εἰ cond which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.
- 1 Corinthians 2:11 εἰ εἰ cond cond For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 3:12 εἰ cond But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
- 1 Corinthians 3:14 εἴ cond If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
- 1 Corinthians 3:15 εἴ cond If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 εἴ cond If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
- 1 Corinthians 3:18 εἴ cond Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
- 1 Corinthians 4:7 εἰ cond For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 εἰ cond Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
- 1 Corinthians 7:5 εἰ cond Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
- 1 Corinthians 7:9 εἰ cond But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.
- 1 Corinthians 7:12 εἴ cond But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
- 1 Corinthians 7:13 εἴ cond The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:15 εἰ cond Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
- 1 Corinthians 7:16 εἰ εἰ cond cond For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
- 1 Corinthians 7:17 εἰ cond Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
- 1 Corinthians 7:21 εἰ cond Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
- 1 Corinthians 7:36 εἰ cond But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.
- 1 Corinthians 8:2 εἴ cond But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
- 1 Corinthians 8:3 εἰ cond But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4 εἰ cond Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
- 1 Corinthians 8:13 εἰ cond Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
- 1 Corinthians 9:2 εἰ cond If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 9:11 Εἰ εἰ cond cond If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
- 1 Corinthians 9:12 εἰ cond If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 9:17 εἰ εἰ cond cond For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13 εἰ cond No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- 1 Corinthians 10:27 εἴ cond But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
- 1 Corinthians 10:30 εἰ cond If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?
- 1 Corinthians 11:6 εἰ εἰ cond cond For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
- 1 Corinthians 11:16 Εἰ cond But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.
- 1 Corinthians 11:31 εἰ cond For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.
- 1 Corinthians 11:34 εἴ cond But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.
- 1 Corinthians 12:3 εἰ cond Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:17 εἰ εἰ cond cond If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
- 1 Corinthians 12:19 εἰ cond If they were all one member, where would the body be?
- 1 Corinthians 14:5 εἰ cond Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
- 1 Corinthians 14:10 εἰ cond There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.
- 1 Corinthians 14:35 Εἰ cond If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.
- 1 Corinthians 14:37 Εἴ cond If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 14:38 εἰ cond But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
- 1 Corinthians 15:2 εἰ εἰ cond cond by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:12 Εἰ cond Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
- 1 Corinthians 15:13 εἰ cond But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.
- 1 Corinthians 15:14 εἰ cond If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:16 εἰ cond For if the dead aren't raised, neither has Christ been raised.
- 1 Corinthians 15:17 εἰ cond If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
- 1 Corinthians 15:19 εἰ cond If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
- 1 Corinthians 15:29 εἰ cond Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?
- 1 Corinthians 15:32 εἰ εἰ cond cond If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
- 1 Corinthians 15:37 εἰ cond That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.
- 1 Corinthians 15:44 εἰ cond It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
- 1 Corinthians 16:22 εἴ cond If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!
2 Corinthians 27 verses
- 2 Corinthians 2:2 εἰ εἰ cond cond For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me?
- 2 Corinthians 2:5 Εἰ cond But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.
- 2 Corinthians 2:9 εἰ cond For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
- 2 Corinthians 2:10 εἴ cond Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
- 2 Corinthians 3:7 εἰ cond But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:
- 2 Corinthians 3:9 εἰ cond For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
- 2 Corinthians 3:11 εἰ cond For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
- 2 Corinthians 4:3 εἰ cond Even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
- 2 Corinthians 4:16 εἰ cond Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
- 2 Corinthians 5:16 εἰ cond Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 εἴ cond Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
- 2 Corinthians 7:8 εἰ εἰ εἰ cond cond cond For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while.
- 2 Corinthians 7:12 εἰ cond So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
- 2 Corinthians 7:14 εἴ cond For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
- 2 Corinthians 8:12 εἰ cond For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
- 2 Corinthians 10:7 εἴ cond Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.
- 2 Corinthians 11:4 εἰ cond For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different gospel, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
- 2 Corinthians 11:6 εἰ cond But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
- 2 Corinthians 11:15 εἰ cond It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
- 2 Corinthians 11:16 εἰ cond I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
- 2 Corinthians 11:20 εἴ εἴ εἴ εἴ εἴ cond cond cond cond cond For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
- 2 Corinthians 11:30 εἰ cond If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
- 2 Corinthians 12:5 εἰ cond On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11 εἰ cond I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
- 2 Corinthians 12:13 εἰ cond For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
- 2 Corinthians 12:15 εἰ cond I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
- 2 Corinthians 13:5 εἰ εἰ cond cond Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.
Galatians 19 verses
- Galatians 1:7 εἰ cond and there isn't another gospel. Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
- Galatians 1:9 εἴ cond As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any gospel other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
- Galatians 1:10 εἰ cond For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
- Galatians 1:19 εἰ cond But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord's brother.
- Galatians 2:14 εἰ cond But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
- Galatians 2:17 εἰ cond But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
- Galatians 2:18 εἰ cond For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
- Galatians 2:21 εἰ cond I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
- Galatians 3:18 εἰ cond For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
- Galatians 3:21 εἰ cond Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.
- Galatians 3:29 εἰ cond If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
- Galatians 4:7 εἰ cond So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
- Galatians 4:15 εἰ cond What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
- Galatians 5:11 εἰ cond But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling-block of the cross has been removed.
- Galatians 5:15 εἰ cond But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.
- Galatians 5:18 εἰ cond But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
- Galatians 5:25 εἰ cond If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.
- Galatians 6:3 εἰ cond For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- Galatians 6:14 εἰ cond But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Ephesians 2 verses
Philippians 8 verses
- Philippians 1:22 εἰ cond But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't make known what I will choose.
- Philippians 2:1 Εἴ εἴ εἴ εἴ cond cond cond cond If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
- Philippians 2:17 εἰ cond Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
- Philippians 3:4 εἴ cond though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
- Philippians 3:12 εἰ cond Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 3:15 εἴ cond Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
- Philippians 4:8 εἴ εἴ cond cond Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
- Philippians 4:15 εἰ cond You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
Colossians 3 verses
- Colossians 2:5 εἰ cond For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
- Colossians 2:20 εἰ cond If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
- Colossians 3:1 Εἰ cond If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 2 verses
1 Timothy 9 verses
- 1 Timothy 1:10 εἴ cond for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
- 1 Timothy 3:1 εἴ cond This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.
- 1 Timothy 3:5 εἰ cond (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
- 1 Timothy 5:4 εἰ cond But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
- 1 Timothy 5:8 εἰ cond But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
- 1 Timothy 5:10 εἰ εἰ εἰ εἰ εἰ cond cond cond cond cond being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
- 1 Timothy 5:16 εἴ cond If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.
- 1 Timothy 5:19 εἰ cond Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.
- 1 Timothy 6:3 εἴ cond If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
2 Timothy 3 verses
- 2 Timothy 2:11 εἰ cond This saying is faithful: For if we died with him, We will also live with him.
- 2 Timothy 2:12 εἰ εἰ cond cond If we endure, We will also reign with him. If we deny him, He also will deny us.
- 2 Timothy 2:13 εἰ cond If we are faithless, He remains faithful. He can't deny himself.
Titus 1 verse
Philemon 2 verses
Hebrews 16 verses
- Hebrews 2:2 εἰ cond For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
- Hebrews 3:11 εἰ cond As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"
- Hebrews 3:18 εἰ cond To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
- Hebrews 4:3 εἰ cond For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Hebrews 4:5 εἰ cond and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."
- Hebrews 4:8 εἰ cond For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
- Hebrews 6:9 εἰ cond But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
- Hebrews 6:14 εἰ cond saying, "Most surely I will bless you, and I will surely multiply you."
- Hebrews 7:11 Εἰ cond Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
- Hebrews 7:15 εἰ cond This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
- Hebrews 8:4 εἰ cond For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
- Hebrews 8:7 Εἰ cond For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
- Hebrews 9:13 εἰ cond For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
- Hebrews 11:15 εἰ cond If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
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“if” is the headline sense of the Greek conjunction ει (ei). Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 4:3. It turns up in 449 verses across 25 books, a common footprint. It clusters with εαν, ειγε and ει δε μη(γε) under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
forasmuch as
Modern gloss
if
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's G1487 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 →
- 449
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 449 distinct verses.
- 25 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 25 of 27 New Testament books.
- #40
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 40 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 449 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 56 verses 12%
- Matthew 54 verses 12%
- Luke 52 verses 12%
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 449 distinct verses.
- Gospels 184 verses · 41%
- Pauline corpus 171 verses · 38%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 83 verses · 18%
- Johannine 68 verses · 15%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 33 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 16 verses · 4%
- Revelation 14 verses · 3%
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: If 236×, Whether 21×, That 5×
- American Standard Version: If 305×, Whether 22×, But 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: If 322×, Except 37×, Only 17×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: If 400×, Except 65×, Whether 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1487 across 281 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 11 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1487 across 424 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 49 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1487 across 441 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 38 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1487 across 514 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 1 sense 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.
- if, whether
Word origin
Origin: a primary particle of conditionality
A primary particle of conditionality; if whether that etc. : - forasmuch as if that ([al-]) though whether. Often used in connection or composition with other particles especially as in G1489 G1490 G1499 G1508 G1509 G1512 G1513 G1536 and G1537 . See also G1437 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1487 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εἰ ei | Conditional | Matthew 4:3 | 414 |
| εἴ eí | Conditional | Matthew 16:24 | 64 |
| Εἰ Ei | Conditional | John 15:18 | 10 |
| Εἴ Eí | Conditional | 1 Corinthians 14:37 | 2 |
| εἶ eî | Conditional | Acts 7:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1487, 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
- εαν eán G1437 if
- ειγε eíge G1489 if indeed
- ει δε μη(γε) ei dè mḗ(ge) G1490 but if not
- ει και ei kaí G1499 even if
- ει μη ei mḗ G1508 except
- ει περ eí per G1512 if indeed
- ει πως eí pōs G1513 if indeed
- ειτε eíte G1535 whether or
- ει τις eí tis G1536 whoever
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ει appears 617 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 531 verses in 35 books.
- 617
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 531
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 35 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 35 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:14 εἰ
- Exodus 2:14 εἰ
- Leviticus 10:19 εἰ
- Numbers 5:19 εἰ
- Deuteronomy 1:31 εἰ
- Joshua 2:5 εἰ
- Judges 2:22 εἰ
- Ruth 4:4 εἰ
- 1 Samuel 3:14 εἰ
- 2 Samuel 2:1 εἰ
- 1 Kings 1:27 εἰ
- 2 Kings 1:2 εἰ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1487) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 531. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 4:14 εἰ Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
- Genesis 8:7 εἰ and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:8 εἰ He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,
- Genesis 13:9 εἰ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
- Genesis 13:16 εἰ I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
- Genesis 14:23 εἰ that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
- Genesis 15:5 εἰ Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
- Genesis 17:17 εἰ Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
- Genesis 18:3 εἰ and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
- Genesis 18:21 εἰ I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."
- Genesis 19:12 εἰ The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
- Genesis 20:7 εἰ Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
- Genesis 23:8 εἰ He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 24:21 εἰ The man looked steadfastly at her, holding his peace, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
- Genesis 24:23 εἰ and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"
- Genesis 24:42 εἰ I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.
- Genesis 24:49 εἰ Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
- Genesis 25:22 εἰ The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.
- Genesis 27:21 εἰ Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
- Genesis 27:37 εἰ Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:46 εἰ Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
- Genesis 30:1 εἰ When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
- Genesis 30:27 εἰ Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
- Genesis 31:27 εἰ Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
- Genesis 31:42 εἰ Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
- Genesis 31:50 εἰ If you will afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."
- Genesis 33:10 εἰ Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
- Genesis 37:14 εἰ He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Genesis 37:32 εἰ They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
- Genesis 39:8 εἰ But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
- Genesis 42:16 εἰ Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
- Genesis 42:19 εἰ If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
- Genesis 42:20 εἰ Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
- Genesis 43:4 εἰ If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,
- Genesis 43:5 εἰ but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
- Genesis 43:6 εἰ Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
- Genesis 43:7 εἰ They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
- Genesis 43:10 εἰ for unless we had lingered, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
- Genesis 43:11 εἰ Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
- Genesis 43:27 εἰ He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
- Genesis 44:8 εἰ Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Genesis 44:19 εἰ My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
- Genesis 44:26 εἰ We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'
- Genesis 45:28 εἰ Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
- Genesis 47:5 εἰ Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
- Genesis 47:16 εἰ Joseph said, "Give your cattle; and I will give you food for your cattle, if money fails."
- Genesis 47:18 εἰ When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
- Genesis 47:29 εἰ The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,
- Genesis 50:4 εἰ When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
- Exodus 2:14 εἰ He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1487) 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.
