εἰμί
to be
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Optative
- Expresses a wish or a remote possibility.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1510 appears in the Book of Romans — 100 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans
- Romans 1:6 ἐστε pres act ind 2pl among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;
- Romans 1:7 οὖσιν pres act ptcp dat pl masc to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Romans 1:9 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
- Romans 1:12 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
- Romans 1:14 εἰμί pres act ind 1sg I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
- Romans 1:16 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
- Romans 1:19 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.
- Romans 1:20 εἶναι pres act inf For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.
- Romans 1:22 εἶναι pres act inf Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
- Romans 1:25 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
- Romans 1:32 εἰσίν pres act ind 3pl who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Romans 2:1 εἶ pres act ind 2sg Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
- Romans 2:2 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
- Romans 2:11 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg For there is no partiality with God.
- Romans 2:14 εἰσιν pres act ind 3pl (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
- Romans 2:19 εἶναι pres act inf and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
- Romans 2:25 ᾖς pres act subj 2sg For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
- Romans 2:28 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
- Romans 3:8 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
- Romans 3:9 εἶναι pres act inf What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
- Romans 3:10 ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.
- Romans 3:11 ἔστιν ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
- Romans 3:12 ἔστιν ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, No, not, so much as one."
- Romans 3:18 ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
- Romans 3:22 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
- Romans 3:26 εἶναι pres act inf to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
- Romans 4:10 ὄντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
- Romans 4:11 εἶναι pres act inf He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
- Romans 4:13 εἶναι pres act inf For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- Romans 4:15 ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
- Romans 4:16 εἶναι ἐστιν pres act inf pres act ind 3sg For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
- Romans 4:17 ὄντα ὄντα pres act ptcp acc pl neut pres act ptcp acc pl neut As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- Romans 4:18 ἔσται fut mid.dep ind 3sg Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
- Romans 4:21 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
- Romans 5:6 ὄντων pres act ptcp gen pl masc For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- Romans 5:8 ὄντων pres act ptcp gen pl masc But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 5:10 ὄντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc 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 5:13 ἦν ὄντος impf act ind 3sg pres act ptcp gen sg masc For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
- Romans 5:14 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
- Romans 6:5 ἐσόμεθα fut mid.dep ind 1pl For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
- Romans 6:11 εἶναι pres act inf Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:14 ἐστε pres act ind 2pl For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
- Romans 6:15 ἐσμὲν pres act ind 1pl What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
- Romans 6:16 ἐστε pres act ind 2pl Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
- Romans 6:17 ἦτε impf act ind 2pl But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
- Romans 6:20 ἦτε ἦτε impf act ind 2pl impf act ind 2pl For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
- Romans 7:3 ἐστὶν εἶναι pres act ind 3sg pres act inf So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
- Romans 7:5 ἦμεν impf act ind 1pl For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
- Romans 7:14 ἐστιν εἰμι pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
- Romans 7:18 ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
- Romans 7:23 ὄντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
- Romans 8:5 ὄντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
- Romans 8:8 ὄντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
- Romans 8:9 ἐστὲ ἔστιν pres act ind 2pl pres act ind 3sg 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 8:12 ἐσμέν pres act ind 1pl So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
- Romans 8:14 εἰσιν pres act ind 3pl For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
- Romans 8:16 ἐσμὲν pres act ind 1pl The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
- Romans 8:24 ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
- Romans 8:28 οὖσιν pres act ptcp dat pl masc We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:29 εἶναι pres act inf For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Romans 8:34 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
- Romans 9:2 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
- Romans 9:3 εἶναι pres act inf For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
- Romans 9:4 εἰσιν pres act ind 3pl who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
- Romans 9:5 ὢν pres act ptcp nom sg masc of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
- Romans 9:7 εἰσὶν pres act ind 3pl Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."
- Romans 9:8 ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
- Romans 9:9 ἔσται fut mid.dep ind 3sg For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."
- Romans 9:20 εἶ pres act ind 2sg But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
- Romans 9:26 ἔσται fut mid.dep ind 3sg "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
- Romans 9:27 ᾖ pres act subj 3sg Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, It is the remnant who will be saved;
- Romans 10:6 ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);
- Romans 10:7 ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)"
- Romans 10:8 ἐστιν ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
- Romans 10:12 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
- Romans 11:1 εἰμί pres act ind 1sg I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Romans 11:13 εἰμι pres act ind 1sg For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
- Romans 11:17 ὢν pres act ptcp nom sg masc 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 11:23 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- Romans 11:25 ἦτε pres act subj 2pl For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- Romans 12:3 ὄντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
- Romans 12:5 ἐσμεν pres act ind 1pl so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
- Romans 13:1 ἔστιν οὖσαι εἰσίν pres act ind 3sg pres act ptcp nom pl fem pres act ind 3pl 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 13:3 εἰσὶν pres act ind 3pl For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,
- Romans 13:4 ἐστιν ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
- Romans 13:6 εἰσιν pres act ind 3pl For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.
- Romans 14:4 εἶ pres act ind 2sg Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
- Romans 14:8 ἐσμέν pres act ind 1pl For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.
- Romans 14:14 εἶναι pres act inf 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 14:17 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 14:23 ἐστίν pres act ind 3sg But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. (14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, (14:25) but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; (14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.
- Romans 15:12 ἔσται fut mid.dep ind 3sg Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, He who arises to rule over the Gentiles; On him will the Gentiles hope."
- Romans 15:14 ἐστε pres act ind 2pl I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
- Romans 15:16 εἶναί pres act inf that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 15:27 εἰσὶν pres act ind 3pl 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.
- Romans 16:1 οὖσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
- Romans 16:5 ἐστιν pres act ind 3sg Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
- Romans 16:7 εἰσιν pres act ind 3pl Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
- Romans 16:11 ὄντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
- Romans 16:19 εἶναι pres act inf For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to be” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ειμι (eimí). Translators differ — “am” in the King James Version, then “is” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 2,096 verses in 27 books, it is one of the most common word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Matthew 1:18, it enters the text early. It clusters with ει, ειην and ειναι under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1510 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 →
- 2,096
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2,096 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #6
- by frequency
- Top 10 most frequent Greek words (rank 6 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2,096 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2,096 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1,097 verses · 52%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 567 verses · 27%
- Johannine 514 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 484 verses · 23%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 133 verses · 6%
- Revelation 81 verses · 4%
- Hebrews 48 verses · 2%
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: Am 82×, I am 44×, Is 6×
- American Standard Version: Am 75×, I am 45×, We were 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is 651×, Was 240×, Are 233×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is 789×, Are 272×, Was 248×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1510 across 140 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 6 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1510 across 154 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1510 across 2,237 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 167 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 169 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1510 across 2,561 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 65 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.
- to be, to exist, to happen, to be present
Word origin
Origin: "the first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb"
Forms in the corpus
The 70 distinct written forms G1510 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 10 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1510, 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
- ει eî G1488 you are
- ειην eíēn G1498 to be
- ειναι eînai G1511 to be
- εισι eisí G1526 are
- εσμεν esmén G2070 we are
- εστε esté G2075 you are
- εστι estí G2076 he is
- εστω éstō G2077 let be
- ην ēn G2258 was
- ητω ḗtō G2277 let be
- ισθι ísthi G2468 be
- ω ō G5600 to be
- ων ṓn G5607 being
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ειμι appears 5,347 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4,423 verses in 38 books.
- 5,347
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4,423
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:2 εἰμί
- Exodus 1:5 εἰμί
- Leviticus 1:8 εἰμί
- Numbers 1:4 εἰμί
- Deuteronomy 1:10 εἰμί
- Joshua 1:4 εἰμί
- Judges 1:7 εἰμί
- Ruth 1:2 εἰμί
- 1 Samuel 1:1 εἰμί
- 2 Samuel 1:8 εἰμί
- 1 Kings 1:2 εἰμί
- 2 Kings 1:3 εἰμί
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1510) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 4,423. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:2 εἰμί Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 1:6 εἰμί God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
- Genesis 1:7 εἰμί God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
- Genesis 1:14 εἰμί God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:15 εἰμί and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:29 εἰμί God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 2:5 εἰμί No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 2:11 εἰμί The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:12 εἰμί and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 2:18 εἰμί Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:24 εἰμί Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Genesis 2:25 εἰμί They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- Genesis 3:1 εἰμί Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:3 εἰμί but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:5 εἰμί for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 3:6 εἰμί When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 3:7 εἰμί Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 3:9 εἰμί Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
- Genesis 3:10 εἰμί The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Genesis 3:11 εἰμί God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:19 εἰμί By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
- Genesis 4:2 εἰμί Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- Genesis 4:8 εἰμί Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
- Genesis 4:9 εἰμί Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
- Genesis 4:12 εἰμί From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
- Genesis 4:14 εἰμί 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 4:17 εἰμί Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 4:20 εἰμί Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.
- Genesis 4:21 εἰμί His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
- Genesis 4:22 εἰμί Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.
- Genesis 5:32 εἰμί Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 6:2 εἰμί that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:3 εἰμί Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Genesis 6:4 εἰμί The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:9 εἰμί This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 6:12 εἰμί God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- Genesis 6:17 εἰμί I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
- Genesis 6:19 εἰμί Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
- Genesis 6:21 εἰμί Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
- Genesis 7:6 εἰμί Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- Genesis 7:15 εἰμί They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
- Genesis 7:19 εἰμί The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
- Genesis 7:22 εἰμί All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
- Genesis 7:23 εἰμί Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 8:1 εἰμί God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Genesis 8:9 εἰμί but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 8:17 εἰμί Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 9:2 εἰμί The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
- Genesis 9:3 εἰμί Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- Genesis 9:11 εἰμί I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1510) 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.
