ἐν
in
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
- Preposition
- A relational word governing a noun in a particular case.
Page 2 of 2 — showing verses 201–233 of 233 distinct verses where G1722 appears in the Book of Matthew. 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.
Matthew
- Matthew 24:26 ἐν ἐν prep prep If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' don't believe it.
- Matthew 24:30 ἐν prep and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
- Matthew 24:38 ἐν prep For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
- Matthew 24:40 ἐν prep Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left;
- Matthew 24:41 ἐν prep two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.
- Matthew 24:45 ἐν prep "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
- Matthew 24:48 ἐν prep But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'
- Matthew 24:50 ἐν ἐν prep prep the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
- Matthew 25:4 ἐν prep but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
- Matthew 25:16 ἐν prep Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
- Matthew 25:25 ἐν prep I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'
- Matthew 25:31 ἐν prep "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
- Matthew 25:36 ἐν prep naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.'
- Matthew 25:39 ἐν prep When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'
- Matthew 25:43 ἐν prep I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'
- Matthew 25:44 ἐν prep "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'
- Matthew 26:5 ἐν ἐν prep prep But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
- Matthew 26:6 ἐν ἐν prep prep Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
- Matthew 26:13 ἐν prep Most assuredly I tell you, wherever this Gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her."
- Matthew 26:23 ἐν prep He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same will betray me.
- Matthew 26:29 ἐν prep But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom."
- Matthew 26:31 ἐν ἐν prep prep Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
- Matthew 26:33 ἐν prep But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."
- Matthew 26:34 ἐν prep Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."
- Matthew 26:52 ἐν prep Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.
- Matthew 26:55 ἐν ἐν prep prep In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.
- Matthew 26:69 ἐν prep Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!"
- Matthew 27:12 ἐν prep When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
- Matthew 27:29 ἐν prep They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
- Matthew 27:40 ἐν prep and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
- Matthew 27:56 ἐν prep Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
- Matthew 27:60 ἐν ἐν prep prep and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.
- Matthew 28:18 ἐν prep Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
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, εν (en) means “in.” First canonically at Matthew 1:18, it enters the text early. With 2,097 verses in 27 books, it is one of the most common word in the Greek New Testament. From the same root come εις, εισαγω and εισακουω. Dig into 2,097-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1722 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 →
- 2,097
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2,097 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #5
- by frequency
- Top 10 most frequent Greek words (rank 5 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2,097 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 2,097 distinct verses.
- Gospels 808 verses · 39%
- Pauline corpus 722 verses · 34%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 510 verses · 24%
- Johannine 352 verses · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 167 verses · 8%
- Revelation 123 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 55 verses · 3%
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: In 1,748×, By 142×, With 135×
- American Standard Version: In 1,856×, With 116×, Among 97×
- Berean Standard Bible: In 1,512×, By 152×, With 144×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: In 2,007×, With 135×, Among 125×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1722 across 2,770 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 91 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 30 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1722 across 2,612 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 133 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1722 across 2,394 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 53 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 224 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1722 across 2,754 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 36 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.
- in, by, with etc.
Word origin
Derived from εις (eis) (G1519) — into.
A primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place time or state) and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively) that is a relation of rest (intermediate between G1519 and G1537 ); in at (up-) on by etc. : - about after against + almost X altogether among X as at before between (here-) by (+ all means) for (... sake of) + give self wholly to (here-) in (-to -wardly) X mightily (because) of (up-) on [open-] ly X outwardly one X quickly X shortly [speedi-] ly X that X there (-in -on) through (-out) (un-) to(-ward) under when where (-with) while with (-in). Often used in compounds with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion and then not to indicate direction except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) prep.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1722 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐν en | Preposition | Matthew 1:18 | 2,703 |
| Ἐν En | Preposition | Matthew 3:1 | 25 |
| ἔν én | Preposition | Luke 18:2 | 8 |
| ἓν hèn | Preposition | Mark 4:20 | 3 |
| [ἐν en | Preposition | Ephesians 1:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1722, 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
- εισαγω eiságō G1521 to bring in
- εισακουω eisakoúō G1522 to obey
- εισδεχομαι eisdéchomai G1523 to receive
- εισειμι eíseimi G1524 to go in
- εισερχομαι eisérchomai G1525 to enter
- εισκαλεω eiskaléō G1528 to invite
- εισοδος eísodos G1529 entrance
- εισπηδαω eispēdáō G1530 to rush in
- εισπορευομαι eisporeúomai G1531 to enter
- ειστρεχω eistréchō G1532 to run in
- εισφερω eisphérō G1533 to bring in
- εσοπτρον ésoptron G2072 mirror
- εσω ésō G2080 within
- σκυβαλον skýbalon G4657 refuse
Derived from this word
- εγγραφω engráphō G1449 to inscribe
- εγγυος éngyos G1450 surety
- εγκαθετος enkáthetos G1455 to spy
- εγκαινια enkaínia G1456 dedication
- εγκαλεω enkaléō G1458 to accuse
- εγκαταλειπω enkataleípō G1459 to abandon
- εγκατοικεω enkatoikéō G1460 to dwell
- εγκεντριζω enkentrízō G1461 to graft
- εγκομβοομαι enkombóomai G1463 band
- εγκοπτω enkóptō G1465 to hinder
- εγκρατης enkratḗs G1468 strong
- εγκρινω enkrínō G1469 to judge worthy
- εγκρυπτω enkrýptō G1470 to conceal
- εγκυος énkyos G1471 pregnant
- εγχριω enchríō G1472 to anoint
- ελλογεω ellogéō G1677 impute
- εμβαινω embaínō G1684 to enter
- εμβαλλω embállō G1685 to cast in
- εμβαπτω embáptō G1686 to dip in
- εμβατευω embateúō G1687 to enter
- εμβιβαζω embibázō G1688 to lead in
- εμβλεπω emblépō G1689 to look at
- εμβριμαομαι embrimáomai G1690 to warn sternly
- εμμαινομαι emmaínomai G1693 to rage against
+59 more words derive from G1722 (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 99 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εν appears 11,235 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7,742 verses in 38 books.
- 11,235
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7,742
- 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 1:1 ἐν
- Exodus 1:5 ἐν
- Leviticus 2:4 ἐν
- Numbers 1:1 ἐν
- Deuteronomy 1:1 ἐν
- Joshua 1:5 ἐν
- Judges 1:2 ἐν
- Ruth 1:1 ἐν
- 1 Samuel 1:1 ἐν
- 2 Samuel 1:1 ἐν
- 1 Kings 1:17 ἐν
- 2 Kings 1:1 ἐν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1722) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 7,742. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:1 ἐν In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:6 ἐν God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
- Genesis 1:11 ἐν God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 ἐν The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:14 ἐν 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 ἐν and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:17 ἐν God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 1:22 ἐν God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 1:29 ἐν 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 1:30 ἐν To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
- Genesis 2:2 ἐν On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3 ἐν God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Genesis 2:8 ἐν Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:9 ἐν Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:15 ἐν Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Genesis 2:16 ἐν Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
- Genesis 3:1 ἐν 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 ἐν 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 ἐν 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 3:8 ἐν They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:10 ἐν The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Genesis 3:16 ἐν To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Genesis 3:17 ἐν To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:19 ἐν 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 4:8 ἐν 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 4:16 ἐν Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
- Genesis 4:20 ἐν Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.
- Genesis 6:3 ἐν 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 ἐν 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 6:5 ἐν Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 6:9 ἐν 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 6:17 ἐν 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 7:1 ἐν Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 7:11 ἐν In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
- Genesis 7:13 ἐν In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;
- Genesis 7:15 ἐν They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
- Genesis 7:23 ἐν 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 ἐν 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 8:4 ἐν The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
- Genesis 8:5 ἐν The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
- Genesis 8:11 ἐν The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:13 ἐν It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 8:14 ἐν In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
- Genesis 9:4 ἐν But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.
- Genesis 9:6 ἐν Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 9:13 ἐν I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Genesis 9:14 ἐν It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
- Genesis 9:15 ἐν and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:16 ἐν The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 9:21 ἐν He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1722) 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.
