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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Matthew 54 verses
- Matthew 4:3 εἰ cond The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
- Matthew 4:6 εἰ cond and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, So that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'"
- Matthew 5:13 εἰ cond "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
- Matthew 5:29 εἰ cond If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
- Matthew 5:30 εἰ cond If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.
- Matthew 6:1 εἰ cond "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 6:23 εἰ cond But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
- Matthew 6:30 εἰ cond But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
- Matthew 7:11 εἰ cond If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
- Matthew 8:31 εἰ cond The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."
- Matthew 9:17 εἰ cond Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
- Matthew 10:25 εἰ cond It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
- Matthew 11:14 εἰ cond If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.
- Matthew 11:21 εἰ cond "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Matthew 11:23 εἰ cond You, Capernaum, who are exalted to Heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.
- Matthew 11:27 εἰ εἰ cond cond All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
- Matthew 12:4 εἰ cond how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
- Matthew 12:7 εἰ cond But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
- Matthew 12:10 εἰ cond And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?" that they might accuse him.
- Matthew 12:24 εἰ cond But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."
- Matthew 12:26 εἰ cond If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
- Matthew 12:27 εἰ cond If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
- Matthew 12:28 εἰ cond But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
- Matthew 12:39 εἰ cond But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
- Matthew 13:57 εἰ cond They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."
- Matthew 14:17 εἰ cond They told him, "We only have here five loaves and two fish."
- Matthew 14:28 εἰ cond Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters."
- Matthew 15:24 εἰ cond But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
- Matthew 16:4 εἰ cond An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.
- Matthew 16:24 εἴ cond Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Matthew 17:4 εἰ cond Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
- Matthew 17:8 εἰ cond Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.
- Matthew 18:8 εἰ cond If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
- Matthew 18:9 εἰ cond If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
- Matthew 18:28 εἴ cond "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
- Matthew 19:3 εἰ cond Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
- Matthew 19:10 εἰ cond His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."
- Matthew 19:17 εἰ cond He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
- Matthew 19:21 εἰ cond Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."
- Matthew 21:19 εἰ cond Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.
- Matthew 22:45 εἰ cond "If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
- Matthew 23:30 εἰ cond and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'
- Matthew 24:22 εἰ cond Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
- Matthew 24:24 εἰ cond For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
- Matthew 24:36 εἰ cond But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
- Matthew 24:43 εἰ cond But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
- Matthew 26:24 εἰ cond The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
- Matthew 26:33 εἰ cond But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."
- Matthew 26:39 εἰ cond He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
- Matthew 26:42 εἰ cond Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."
- Matthew 26:63 εἰ cond But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."
- Matthew 27:40 εἰ cond and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
- Matthew 27:43 εἰ cond He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
- Matthew 27:49 εἰ cond The rest said, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to save him."
Mark 32 verses
- Mark 2:7 εἰ cond "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
- Mark 2:21 εἰ cond No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
- Mark 2:22 εἰ cond No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
- Mark 2:26 εἰ cond How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"
- Mark 3:2 εἰ cond They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
- Mark 3:26 εἰ cond If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end.
- Mark 4:23 εἴ cond If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
- Mark 5:37 εἰ cond He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
- Mark 6:4 εἰ cond Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house."
- Mark 6:5 εἰ cond He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.
- Mark 6:8 εἰ cond He charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,
- Mark 8:12 εἰ cond He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Most assuredly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."
- Mark 8:14 εἰ cond They forgot to take bread; and they didn't have more than one loaf in the boat with them.
- Mark 8:23 εἴ cond He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.
- Mark 9:9 εἰ cond As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
- Mark 9:22 εἴ cond Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."
- Mark 9:23 εἰ cond Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."
- Mark 9:29 εἰ cond He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."
- Mark 9:35 εἴ cond He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."
- Mark 9:42 εἰ cond Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
- Mark 10:2 εἰ cond Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
- Mark 10:18 εἰ cond Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one-- God.
- Mark 11:13 εἰ εἰ cond cond Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
- Mark 11:25 εἴ cond Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
- Mark 13:20 εἰ cond Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.
- Mark 13:22 εἰ cond For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
- Mark 13:32 εἰ cond But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
- Mark 14:21 εἰ cond For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
- Mark 14:29 εἰ cond But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I will not."
- Mark 14:35 εἰ cond He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
- Mark 15:36 εἰ cond One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
- Mark 15:44 εἰ εἰ cond cond Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
Luke 52 verses
- Luke 4:3 εἰ cond The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
- Luke 4:9 εἰ cond He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,
- Luke 4:26 εἰ cond Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
- Luke 4:27 εἰ cond There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."
- Luke 5:21 εἰ cond The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
- Luke 5:36 εἰ cond He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
- Luke 5:37 εἰ cond No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
- Luke 6:4 εἰ cond how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"
- Luke 6:7 εἰ cond The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
- Luke 6:9 εἰ cond Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?"
- Luke 6:32 εἰ cond If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
- Luke 7:39 εἰ cond Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."
- Luke 8:51 εἰ cond When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.
- Luke 9:13 εἰ cond But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."
- Luke 9:23 εἴ cond He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
- Luke 10:6 εἰ cond If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
- Luke 10:13 εἰ cond "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
- Luke 10:22 εἰ εἰ cond cond Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."
- Luke 11:8 εἰ cond I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
- Luke 11:13 εἰ cond If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
- Luke 11:18 εἰ cond If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
- Luke 11:19 εἰ cond But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges.
- Luke 11:20 εἰ cond But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you.
- Luke 11:29 εἰ cond When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
- Luke 11:36 εἰ cond If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."
- Luke 12:26 εἰ cond If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
- Luke 12:28 εἰ cond But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
- Luke 12:39 εἰ cond But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
- Luke 12:49 εἰ cond "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
- Luke 13:9 εἰ cond If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"
- Luke 13:23 εἰ cond One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?" He said to them,
- Luke 14:26 εἴ cond "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
- Luke 14:28 εἰ cond For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
- Luke 14:31 εἰ cond Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
- Luke 14:32 εἰ cond Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.
- Luke 16:11 εἰ cond If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
- Luke 16:12 εἰ cond If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
- Luke 16:31 εἰ cond "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
- Luke 17:2 εἰ cond It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
- Luke 17:6 εἰ cond The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
- Luke 17:18 εἰ cond Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?"
- Luke 18:4 εἰ cond He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
- Luke 18:19 εἰ cond Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one--God.
- Luke 19:8 εἴ cond Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
- Luke 19:42 εἰ cond saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
- Luke 22:42 εἰ cond saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."
- Luke 22:49 εἰ cond When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"
- Luke 22:66 εἰ cond As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
- Luke 23:6 εἰ cond But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
- Luke 23:31 εἰ cond For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"
- Luke 23:35 εἰ cond The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"
- Luke 23:37 εἰ cond and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
John 46 verses
- John 1:25 εἰ cond They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
- John 3:12 εἰ cond If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
- John 3:13 εἰ cond No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
- John 4:10 εἰ cond Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
- John 5:46 εἰ cond For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
- John 5:47 εἰ cond But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
- John 6:22 εἰ cond On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
- John 6:46 εἰ cond Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
- John 7:4 εἰ cond For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
- John 7:23 εἰ cond If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?
- John 8:19 εἰ cond They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
- John 8:39 εἰ cond They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
- John 8:42 εἰ cond Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
- John 8:46 εἰ cond Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
- John 9:25 εἰ cond He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."
- John 9:33 εἰ cond If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
- John 9:41 εἰ cond Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
- John 10:10 εἰ cond The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
- John 10:24 εἰ cond The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
- John 10:35 εἰ cond If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
- John 10:37 εἰ cond If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
- John 10:38 εἰ cond But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
- John 11:12 εἰ cond The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
- John 11:21 εἰ cond Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.
- John 11:32 εἰ cond Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."
- John 13:14 εἰ cond If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
- John 13:17 εἰ cond If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
- John 13:32 εἰ cond If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
- John 14:2 εἰ cond In my Father's house are many mansions. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
- John 14:6 εἰ cond Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- John 14:7 εἰ cond If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."
- John 14:11 εἰ cond Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.
- John 14:28 εἰ cond You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
- John 15:18 Εἰ cond If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
- John 15:19 εἰ cond If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
- John 15:20 εἰ εἰ cond cond Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
- John 15:22 εἰ cond If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
- John 15:24 εἰ cond If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
- John 17:12 εἰ cond While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
- John 18:8 εἰ cond Jesus answered, "I told you that I AM. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"
- John 18:23 εἰ εἰ cond cond Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"
- John 18:30 εἰ cond They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
- John 18:36 εἰ cond Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
- John 19:11 εἰ cond Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
- John 19:15 εἰ cond They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
- John 20:15 εἰ cond Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."
Acts 31 verses
- Acts 1:6 εἰ cond Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
- Acts 4:9 εἰ cond if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
- Acts 4:19 εἰ cond But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
- Acts 5:8 εἰ cond Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." She said, "Yes, for so much."
- Acts 5:39 εἰ cond But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"
- Acts 7:1 εἶ cond The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
- Acts 8:22 εἰ cond Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
- Acts 10:18 εἰ cond and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, was lodging there.
- Acts 11:17 εἰ cond If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"
- Acts 11:19 εἰ cond They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
- Acts 13:15 εἴ cond After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
- Acts 16:15 εἰ cond When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
- Acts 17:11 εἰ cond Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
- Acts 17:27 εἰ cond that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
- Acts 18:14 εἰ cond But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
- Acts 18:15 εἰ cond but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."
About this entry
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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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About this word
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.
