εἴπερ
if indeed
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Conditional
- A particle introducing a condition (“if”).
Every verse where G1512 appears — 6 distinct verses across 3 books. 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 3 verses
- Romans 3:30 εἴπερ cond since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
- Romans 8:9 εἴπερ cond But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
- Romans 8:17 εἴπερ cond and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 8:5 εἴπερ cond For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"
- 1 Corinthians 15:15 εἴπερ cond Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn't raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
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.
At its core, ει περ (eí per) means “if indeed.” The word gravitates to Romans (50%), then 1 Corinthians and 2 Thessalonians. It turns up in 6 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Romans 3:30. It shares a root with ει, εαν and ειγε. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1512 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 3 verses 50%
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 33%
- 2 Thessalonians 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 100%
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: Be 3×
- American Standard Version: Be that 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: If 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1512 across 6 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1512 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1512 across 6 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.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- if indeed, since, if after all
Word origin
Derived from ει (ei) (G1487) — if.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1512, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εαν eán G1437 if
- ειγε eíge G1489 if indeed
- ει δε μη(γε) ei dè mḗ(ge) G1490 but if not
- ει και ei kaí G1499 even if
- ει μη ei mḗ G1508 except
- ει πως eí pōs G1513 if indeed
- ειτε eíte G1535 whether or
- ει τις eí tis G1536 whoever
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
