εἰμί

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.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
ἐστιν estin	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular	Matthew 1:20	565
ἦν ē̂n	Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular	Matthew 1:18	306
ἔστιν éstin	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular	Matthew 10:24	149
ἔσται éstai	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular	Matthew 5:21	119
εἶναι eînai	Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive	Matthew 16:13	113
ἐστὶν estìn	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular	Matthew 3:15	108
εἶ eî	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular	Matthew 2:6	92
εἰμι eimi	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular	Matthew 8:9	91
ἦσαν ē̂san	Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	Matthew 4:18	89
ἐστίν estín	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular	Matthew 6:23	72
εἰσιν eisin	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	Matthew 7:13	66
ἐστε este	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural	Matthew 5:11	61
εἰσίν eisín	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	Matthew 2:18	46
εἰσὶν eisìn	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	Matthew 7:14	44
ᾖ ē̂	Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular	Matthew 6:4	43
ὢν ṑn	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine	Matthew 1:19	41
εἰμὶ eimì	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular	Matthew 3:11	34
ἐσμεν esmen	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural	Mark 5:9	31
ἔσονται ésontai	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	Matthew 12:27	29
ὄντες óntes	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine	Matthew 7:11	26
ὄντα ónta	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine	Matthew 6:30	19
ἦτε ē̂te	Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural	John 9:41	19
ἐστὲ estè	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural	Luke 11:44	18
ὄντος óntos	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine	Mark 8:1	15
ἤμην ḗmēn	Verb, Imperfect, Middle, Indicative, 1st person, Singular	Matthew 25:35	15
εἰμί eimí	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular	Luke 22:58	13
ἐσμὲν esmèn	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural	John 9:28	13
ἐστέ esté	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural	Luke 13:25	13
ἔσομαι ésomai	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular	Matthew 17:17	13
εἴη eíē	Verb, Present, Active, Optative, 3rd person, Singular	Luke 1:29	11
ἔστω éstō	Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular	Matthew 5:37	11
ὄντας óntas	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine	Acts 9:2	11
ὦσιν ō̂sin	Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural	Mark 3:14	11
εἶναί eînaí	Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive	Luke 2:49	10
ἔσεσθε ésesthe	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural	Matthew 5:48	10
οὖσιν oûsin	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine	Mark 2:26	9
Ἦν Ē̂n	Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular	Mark 14:1	9
ἐσμέν esmén	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural	Luke 9:12	8
ἔσῃ ésē	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular	Luke 1:20	8
ἦμεν ē̂men	Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural	Acts 11:11	8
Ἦσαν Ē̂san	Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	Matthew 27:55	7
ὄντων óntōn	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine	John 21:11	6
οὖσαν oûsan	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine	Luke 13:16	6
ἦς ē̂s	Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular	Matthew 25:21	6
οὔσης oúsēs	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine	Mark 11:11	5
οὖσα oûsa	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine	Mark 5:25	5
ἤμεθα ḗmetha	Verb, Imperfect, Middle, Indicative, 1st person, Plural	Matthew 23:30	5
ἴσθι ísthi	Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular	Matthew 2:13	5
ὤν ṓn	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine	John 3:4	5
οὔσῃ oúsē	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Feminine	Luke 2:5	4
ἐσόμεθα esómetha	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural	Romans 6:5	4
ἔσεσθαι ésesthai	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Infinitive	Acts 11:28	4
ὄντι ónti	Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine	Acts 7:2	4
ὦμεν ō̂men	Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural	2 Corinthians 1:9	3
ἔσεσθέ ésesthé	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural	Acts 1:8	2
ἔσονταί ésontaí	Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	2 Corinthians 6:16	2
ἤτω ḗtō	Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular	1 Corinthians 16:22	2
ἦσθα ē̂stha	Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular	Matthew 26:69	2
ὦ ō̂	Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular	John 9:5	2
Εἰσὶν Eisìn	Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	Titus 1:10	1

The 60 most common forms are shown; 10 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.

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.

• εσομαι ésomai G2071 I will be

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.

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.