εἴτε
whether or
‘whether or’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Conjunction
- A joining word linking words or clauses.
Every verse where G1535 appears — 29 distinct verses across 9 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 12:6 εἴτε conj Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
- Romans 12:7 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
- Romans 12:8 εἴτε conj or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
1 Corinthians 9 verses
- 1 Corinthians 3:22 εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε conj conj conj conj conj conj conj conj whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
- 1 Corinthians 8:5 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj 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 10:31 εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε conj conj conj Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1 Corinthians 12:13 εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε conj conj conj conj For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:26 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
- 1 Corinthians 13:8 εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε conj conj conj Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
- 1 Corinthians 14:7 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
- 1 Corinthians 14:27 εἴτε conj If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
- 1 Corinthians 15:11 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
2 Corinthians 7 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:6 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
- 2 Corinthians 5:9 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
- 2 Corinthians 5:10 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
- 2 Corinthians 5:13 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
- 2 Corinthians 8:23 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 12:2 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
- 2 Corinthians 12:3 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),
Ephesians 1 verse
Philippians 3 verses
- Philippians 1:18 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.
- Philippians 1:20 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
- Philippians 1:27 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Gospel;
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 1:16 εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε εἴτε conj conj conj conj For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
- Colossians 1:20 εἴτε εἴτε conj conj and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Peter 2 verses
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.
ειτε (eíte) is a Greek conjunction most often rendered “whether or.” Scripture first uses it in Romans 12:6. It turns up in 29 verses across 9 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in 1 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 31% of its uses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1535 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 →
- 29
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 29 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #256
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 256 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 29 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 9 verses 31%
- 2 Corinthians 7 verses 24%
- Romans 3 verses 10%
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 29 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 27 verses · 93%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 7%
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: Or 33×, Whether 26×, Or whether 3×
- American Standard Version: Or 33×, Whether 26×, Or whether 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Or 28×, Whether 18×, If 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Or 28×, Whether 20×, If 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1535 across 65 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 G1535 across 65 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1535 across 60 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 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1535 across 67 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 2 senses 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 ... if
- whether ... or
Word origin
Derived from ει (ei) (G1487) — if.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1535, 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 περ eí per G1512 if indeed
- ει πως eí pōs G1513 if indeed
- ει τις eí tis G1536 whoever
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ειτε appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 9:21 εἴτε
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1535) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1535) 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.
