εἰμί
to be
G1510
Strong's Greek
eimí
Transliteration
/i-mee'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT
2,459
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Thayer Definition
1. to be, to exist, to happen, to be present
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.
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John 99 verses
- John 4:6 ἦν ἦν impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- John 4:46 Ἦν impf act ind 3sg Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
- John 5:1 ἦν impf act ind 3sg After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- John 5:5 ἦν impf act ind 3sg A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
- John 5:9 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
- John 5:35 ἦν impf act ind 3sg He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
- John 6:4 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
- John 6:10 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
- John 6:22 ἦν impf act ind 3sg 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 6:62 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
- John 7:2 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
- John 7:12 ἦν ἐστιν impf act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray."
- John 7:39 ἦν impf act ind 3sg But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
- John 7:42 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
- John 8:42 ἦν impf act ind 3sg 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 8:44 ἐστὲ ἦν ἔστιν ἐστὶν pres act ind 2pl impf act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
- John 9:8 ἦν ἐστιν impf act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"
- John 9:14 ἦν impf act ind 3sg It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
- John 9:16 ἔστιν ἦν pres act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.
- John 9:18 ἦν impf act ind 3sg The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
- John 9:24 ἦν ἐστιν impf act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
- John 9:33 ἦν impf act ind 3sg If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
- John 9:41 ἦτε impf act ind 2pl Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
- John 10:6 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
- John 10:22 ἦν impf act ind 3sg It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
- John 10:40 ἦν impf act ind 3sg He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
- John 10:41 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."
- John 11:1 Ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
- John 11:2 ἦν impf act ind 3sg It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
- John 11:6 ἦν impf act ind 3sg When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
- John 11:15 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
- John 11:18 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
- John 11:21 ἦς impf act ind 2sg Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.
- John 11:30 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
- John 11:32 ἦν ἦς impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 2sg 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 11:38 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
- John 11:55 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
- John 12:1 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
- John 12:2 ἦν impf act ind 3sg So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
- John 12:6 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
- John 12:16 ἦν impf act ind 3sg His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
- John 12:20 Ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
- John 13:5 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
- John 13:23 ἦν impf act ind 3sg One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.
- John 13:30 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
- John 15:19 ἦτε ἐστέ impf act ind 2pl pres act ind 2pl 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 16:4 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
- John 17:6 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
- John 17:12 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg 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 18:1 ἦν impf act ind 3sg When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
- John 18:10 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
- John 18:13 ἦν ἦν impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
- John 18:14 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
- John 18:15 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;
- John 18:18 ἦν ἦν impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
- John 18:25 Ἦν εἶ εἰμί impf act ind 3sg pres act ind 2sg pres act ind 1sg Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."
- John 18:28 ἦν impf act ind 3sg They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
- John 18:30 ἦν impf act ind 3sg They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
- John 18:36 ἔστιν ἦν ἔστιν pres act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg 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 18:40 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
- John 19:11 ἦν impf act ind 3sg 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 19:14 ἦν ἦν impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
- John 19:19 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- John 19:20 ἦν ἦν impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
- John 19:23 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
- John 19:31 ἦν ἦν impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
- John 19:41 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
- John 19:42 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
- John 20:7 ἦν impf act ind 3sg and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
- John 20:19 Οὔσης ἦσαν pres act ptcp gen sg fem impf act ind 3pl When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
- John 20:24 ἦν impf act ind 3sg But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with them when Jesus came.
- John 20:26 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
- John 21:2 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.
- John 21:7 ἐστιν ἐστιν ἦν pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
- John 21:8 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.
- John 21:18 ἦς impf act ind 2sg Most assuredly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don't want to go."
Acts 84 verses
- Acts 1:10 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
- Acts 1:13 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
- Acts 1:14 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
- Acts 1:15 ἦν impf act ind 3sg In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
- Acts 1:17 ἦν impf act ind 3sg For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
- Acts 2:1 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- Acts 2:2 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
- Acts 2:5 Ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
- Acts 2:24 ἦν impf act ind 3sg whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- Acts 2:42 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
- Acts 2:43 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
- Acts 2:44 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
- Acts 3:10 ἦν impf act ind 3sg They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
- Acts 4:3 ἦν impf act ind 3sg They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
- Acts 4:6 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
- Acts 4:13 εἰσιν ἦσαν pres act ind 3pl impf act ind 3pl Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
- Acts 4:22 ἦν impf act ind 3sg For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
- Acts 4:31 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
- Acts 4:32 ἦν εἶναι ἦν impf act ind 3sg pres act inf impf act ind 3sg The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
- Acts 4:33 ἦν impf act ind 3sg With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
- Acts 4:34 ἦν impf act ind 3sg For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,
- Acts 5:12 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
- Acts 7:9 ἦν impf act ind 3sg "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
- Acts 7:20 ἦν impf act ind 3sg At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.
- Acts 7:22 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
- Acts 7:44 ἦν impf act ind 3sg "Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
- Acts 8:1 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
- Acts 8:13 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occuring, he was amazed.
- Acts 8:16 ἦν impf act ind 3sg for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.
- Acts 8:27 ἦν impf act ind 3sg He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
- Acts 8:28 ἦν impf act ind 3sg He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.
- Acts 8:32 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, So he doesn't open his mouth.
- Acts 9:9 ἦν impf act ind 3sg He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
- Acts 9:10 Ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, it's me, Lord."
- Acts 9:28 ἦν impf act ind 3sg He was with them entering into Jerusalem,
- Acts 9:33 ἦν impf act ind 3sg There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
- Acts 9:36 ἦν ἦν impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
- Acts 10:24 ἦν impf act ind 3sg On the next day they entered into Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and his near friends.
- Acts 10:30 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg Cornelius said, "Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
- Acts 10:38 ἦν impf act ind 3sg even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
- Acts 11:5 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
- Acts 11:11 ἦμεν impf act ind 1pl Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.
- Acts 11:17 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg 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 11:20 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus.
- Acts 11:21 ἦν impf act ind 3sg The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
- Acts 11:24 ἦν impf act ind 3sg For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.
- Acts 12:3 ἐστιν ἦσαν pres act ind 3sg impf act ind 3pl When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
- Acts 12:5 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
- Acts 12:6 ἦν impf act ind 3sg The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
- Acts 12:12 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
- Acts 12:18 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
- Acts 12:20 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king's chamberlain, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.
- Acts 13:1 Ἦσαν οὖσαν impf act ind 3pl pres act ptcp acc sg fem Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
- Acts 13:7 ἦν impf act ind 3sg who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
- Acts 13:46 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
- Acts 13:48 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
- Acts 14:4 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
- Acts 14:7 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl There they preached the Gospel.
- Acts 14:12 ἦν impf act ind 3sg They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," because he was the chief speaker.
- Acts 14:26 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
- Acts 16:1 ἦν impf act ind 3sg He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.
- Acts 16:9 ἦν impf act ind 3sg A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us."
- Acts 16:12 ἐστὶν ἦμεν pres act ind 3sg impf act ind 1pl and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
- Acts 17:1 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
- Acts 17:11 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl 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 18:3 εἶναι ἦσαν pres act inf impf act ind 3pl and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
- Acts 18:7 ἦν impf act ind 3sg He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
- Acts 18:14 ἦν impf act ind 3sg 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 18:25 ἦν impf act ind 3sg This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
- Acts 19:7 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl They were about twelve men in all.
- Acts 19:14 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
- Acts 19:16 ἦν impf act ind 3sg The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
- Acts 19:32 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.
- Acts 20:8 ἦσαν ἦμεν impf act ind 3pl impf act ind 1pl There were many lights in the upper chamber where we were gathered together.
- Acts 20:13 ἦν impf act ind 3sg But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.
- Acts 21:3 ἦν impf act ind 3sg When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her cargo.
- Acts 21:9 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
- Acts 21:29 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
- Acts 22:19 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
- Acts 22:20 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'
- Acts 22:29 ἐστιν ἦν pres act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
- Acts 23:13 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
- Acts 27:8 ἦν impf act ind 3sg With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.
- Acts 27:37 ἤμεθα impf mid ind 1pl In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.
Romans 4 verses
- 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 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 7:5 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.
1 Corinthians 7 verses
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 ἦτε impf act ind 2pl Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
- 1 Corinthians 10:1 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
- 1 Corinthians 10:4 ἦν impf act ind 3sg and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 12:2 ἦτε impf act ind 2pl You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
- 1 Corinthians 12:19 ἦν impf act ind 3sg If they were all one member, where would the body be?
- 1 Corinthians 13:11 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
- 1 Corinthians 16:12 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 7 verses
- Galatians 1:10 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg 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 1:22 ἤμην impf mid ind 1sg I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,
- Galatians 1:23 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl but they only heard: "He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy."
- Galatians 2:6 εἶναί ἦσαν pres act inf impf act ind 3pl But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
- Galatians 2:11 ἦν impf act ind 3sg But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned.
- Galatians 3:21 ἦν impf act ind 3sg 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 4:3 ἦμεν ἤμεθα impf act ind 1pl impf mid ind 1pl So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world.
Ephesians 3 verses
- Ephesians 2:3 ἤμεθα impf mid ind 1pl among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
- Ephesians 2:12 ἦτε impf act ind 2pl that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Ephesians 5:8 ἦτε impf act ind 2pl For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Philippians 2 verses
Colossians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
Titus 1 verse
Hebrews 7 verses
- Hebrews 2:15 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
- Hebrews 7:10 ἦν impf act ind 3sg for he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.
- Hebrews 7:11 ἦν impf act ind 3sg 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 8:4 ἦν ἦν ὄντων impf act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg pres act ptcp gen pl masc 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 ἦν impf act ind 3sg For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
- Hebrews 11:38 ἦν impf act ind 3sg (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
- Hebrews 12:21 ἦν εἰμι impf act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."
James 2 verses
- James 1:24 ἦν impf act ind 3sg for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
- James 5:17 ἦν impf act ind 3sg Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 2 verses
- 2 Peter 2:21 ἦν impf act ind 3sg For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
- 2 Peter 3:5 ἦσαν impf act ind 3pl For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
About this entry
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“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
Strong's · 1890
am
Modern gloss
to be
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 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.
