ἤ
or
G2228
Strong's Greek
ḗ
Transliteration
/ay/
Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT
346
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Thayer Definition
1. either, or, than
Strong's concordance entry
Where this word appears
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Part of speech
- Particle
- A short, often untranslatable function word adding nuance or connection.
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Matthew 48 verses
- Matthew 1:18 ἢ ptcl Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
- Matthew 5:17 ἢ ptcl "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.
- Matthew 5:18 ἢ ptcl For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
- Matthew 5:36 ἢ ptcl Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.
- Matthew 6:24 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
- Matthew 6:31 ἤ ἤ ptcl ptcl "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'
- Matthew 7:4 ἢ ptcl Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
- Matthew 7:9 ἢ ptcl Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
- Matthew 7:10 ἢ ptcl Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
- Matthew 7:16 ἢ ptcl By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
- Matthew 9:5 ἢ ptcl For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Get up, and walk?'
- Matthew 10:11 ἢ ptcl Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.
- Matthew 10:14 ἢ ptcl Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
- Matthew 10:15 ἢ ptcl Most assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
- Matthew 10:19 ἢ ptcl But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
- Matthew 10:37 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
- Matthew 11:3 ἢ ptcl and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"
- Matthew 11:22 ἢ ptcl But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
- Matthew 11:24 ἢ ptcl But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you."
- Matthew 12:5 ἢ ptcl Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?
- Matthew 12:25 ἢ ptcl Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
- Matthew 12:29 ἢ ptcl Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.
- Matthew 12:33 Ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
- Matthew 13:21 ἢ ptcl yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
- Matthew 15:4 ἢ ptcl For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
- Matthew 15:5 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"
- Matthew 16:14 ἢ ptcl They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
- Matthew 16:26 ἢ ptcl For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
- Matthew 17:25 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
- Matthew 18:8 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
- Matthew 18:9 ἢ ptcl If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
- Matthew 18:13 ἢ ptcl If he finds it, most assuredly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
- Matthew 18:16 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
- Matthew 18:20 ἢ ptcl For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."
- Matthew 19:24 ἢ ptcl Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
- Matthew 19:29 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
- Matthew 20:15 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
- Matthew 21:25 ἢ ptcl The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
- Matthew 22:17 ἢ ptcl Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
- Matthew 23:17 ἢ ptcl You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
- Matthew 23:19 ἢ ptcl You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
- Matthew 24:23 ἤ ptcl "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or, 'There,' don't believe it.
- Matthew 25:37 ἢ ptcl "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
- Matthew 25:38 ἢ ptcl When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
- Matthew 25:39 ἢ ptcl When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'
- Matthew 25:44 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl "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 26:53 ἢ ptcl Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
- Matthew 27:17 ἢ ptcl When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"
Mark 22 verses
- Mark 2:9 ἢ ptcl Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
- Mark 3:4 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.
- Mark 4:17 ἢ ptcl They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
- Mark 4:21 ἢ ptcl He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a lampstand?
- Mark 4:30 ἢ ptcl He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
- Mark 6:56 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl Wherever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch just the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.
- Mark 7:10 ἢ ptcl For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
- Mark 7:11 ἢ ptcl But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'
- Mark 7:12 ἢ ptcl then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
- Mark 9:43 ἢ ptcl If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
- Mark 9:45 ἢ ptcl If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched--
- Mark 9:47 ἢ ptcl If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
- Mark 10:25 ἢ ptcl It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
- Mark 10:29 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the Gospel's sake,
- Mark 10:38 ἢ ptcl But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
- Mark 10:40 ἢ ptcl but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."
- Mark 11:28 ἢ ptcl and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"
- Mark 11:30 ἢ ptcl The baptism of John -- was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."
- Mark 12:14 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
- Mark 13:32 ἢ ptcl But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
- Mark 13:35 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
- Mark 14:30 ἢ ptcl Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times."
Luke 40 verses
- Luke 2:24 ἢ ptcl and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
- Luke 2:26 ἢ ptcl It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
- Luke 5:23 ἢ ptcl Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?'
- Luke 6:9 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?"
- Luke 7:19 ἢ ptcl John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"
- Luke 7:20 ἢ ptcl When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?'"
- Luke 8:16 ἢ ptcl "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.
- Luke 9:13 ἢ ptcl But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."
- Luke 9:25 ἢ ptcl For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
- Luke 10:12 ἢ ptcl I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
- Luke 10:14 ἢ ptcl But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
- Luke 11:11 ἢ ptcl "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
- Luke 11:12 ἢ ptcl Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
- Luke 12:11 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
- Luke 12:14 ἢ ptcl But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"
- Luke 12:41 ἢ ptcl Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"
- Luke 12:47 ἢ ptcl That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
- Luke 12:51 ἢ ptcl Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
- Luke 13:4 ἢ ptcl Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
- Luke 13:15 ἢ ptcl Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
- Luke 14:3 ἢ ptcl Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
- Luke 14:5 ἢ ptcl He answered them, "Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?"
- Luke 14:12 ἢ ptcl He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
- Luke 14:31 Ἢ ptcl Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
- Luke 15:7 ἢ ptcl I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
- Luke 15:8 Ἢ ptcl Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
- Luke 16:13 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."
- Luke 16:17 ἢ ptcl But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
- Luke 17:2 ἢ ptcl It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
- Luke 17:7 ἢ ptcl But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
- Luke 17:21 ἤ ptcl neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."
- Luke 18:11 ἢ ptcl The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
- Luke 18:14 ἢ ptcl I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
- Luke 18:25 ἢ ptcl For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
- Luke 18:29 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
- Luke 20:2 ἢ ptcl They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
- Luke 20:4 ἢ ptcl the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"
- Luke 20:22 ἢ ptcl Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
- Luke 21:15 ἢ ptcl for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
- Luke 22:27 ἢ ptcl For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves.
John 12 verses
- John 2:6 ἢ ptcl Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
- John 3:19 ἢ ptcl This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
- John 4:1 ἢ ptcl Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
- John 4:27 ἤ ptcl At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"
- John 6:19 ἢ ptcl When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
- John 7:17 ἢ ptcl If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
- John 7:48 ἢ ptcl Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
- John 8:14 ἢ ptcl Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
- John 9:2 ἢ ptcl His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
- John 9:21 ἢ ptcl but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."
- John 13:29 ἢ ptcl For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
- John 18:34 ἢ ptcl Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"
Acts 30 verses
- Acts 1:7 ἢ ptcl He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority.
- Acts 3:12 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
- Acts 4:7 ἢ ptcl When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?"
- Acts 4:19 ἢ ptcl But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
- Acts 4:34 ἢ ptcl 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 5:29 ἢ ptcl But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
- Acts 5:38 ἢ ptcl Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
- Acts 7:2 ἢ ptcl He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Acts 7:49 ἢ ptcl 'heaven is my throne, And the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'Or what is the place of my rest?
- Acts 8:34 ἢ ptcl The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?"
- Acts 10:28 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
- Acts 11:8 ἢ ptcl But I said, 'Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'
- Acts 17:21 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
- Acts 17:29 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
- Acts 18:14 ἢ ptcl 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 19:12 ἢ ptcl so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.
- Acts 20:33 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.
- Acts 20:35 ἢ ptcl In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
- Acts 23:9 ἢ ptcl A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"
- Acts 23:29 ἢ ptcl I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
- Acts 24:12 ἢ ptcl In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
- Acts 24:20 ἢ ptcl Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,
- Acts 24:21 ἢ ptcl unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"
- Acts 25:6 ἢ ptcl When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.
- Acts 25:16 ἢ ptcl To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
- Acts 26:31 ἢ ptcl When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."
- Acts 27:11 ἢ ptcl But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.
- Acts 28:6 ἢ ptcl But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
- Acts 28:17 ἢ ptcl It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
- Acts 28:21 ἢ ptcl They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
Romans 22 verses
- Romans 1:21 ἢ ptcl Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- Romans 2:4 ἢ ptcl Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
- Romans 2:15 ἢ ptcl in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
- Romans 3:1 ἢ ptcl Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
- Romans 3:29 ἢ ptcl Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
- Romans 4:9 ἢ ptcl Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
- Romans 4:10 ἢ ptcl How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
- Romans 4:13 ἢ ptcl For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- Romans 6:3 ἢ ptcl Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- Romans 6:16 ἢ ptcl Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
- Romans 7:1 Ἢ ptcl Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
- Romans 8:35 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
- Romans 9:11 ἢ ptcl For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
- Romans 9:21 ἢ ptcl Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
- Romans 10:7 ἤ ptcl or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)"
- Romans 11:2 ἢ ptcl God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
- Romans 11:34 ἢ ptcl "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"
- Romans 11:35 ἢ ptcl "Or who has first given to him, And it will be repaid to him again?"
- Romans 13:11 ἢ ptcl Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
- Romans 14:4 ἢ ptcl Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
- Romans 14:10 ἢ ptcl But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
- Romans 14:13 ἢ ptcl Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.
1 Corinthians 40 verses
- 1 Corinthians 1:13 ἢ ptcl Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
- 1 Corinthians 2:1 ἢ ptcl When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
- 1 Corinthians 4:3 ἢ ptcl But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.
- 1 Corinthians 4:21 ἢ ptcl What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ἢ ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl ptcl But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
- 1 Corinthians 6:2 ἢ ptcl Don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 ἢ ptcl Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
- 1 Corinthians 6:16 ἢ ptcl Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 ἢ ptcl Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
- 1 Corinthians 7:9 ἢ ptcl But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.
- 1 Corinthians 7:11 ἢ ptcl (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:15 ἢ ptcl Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
- 1 Corinthians 7:16 ἢ ptcl For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
- 1 Corinthians 9:6 ἢ ptcl Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
- 1 Corinthians 9:7 ἢ ptcl What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?
- 1 Corinthians 9:8 ἢ ptcl Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?
- 1 Corinthians 9:10 ἢ ptcl or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
- 1 Corinthians 9:15 ἤ ptcl But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
- 1 Corinthians 10:19 ἢ ptcl What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- 1 Corinthians 10:22 ἢ ptcl Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
- 1 Corinthians 11:4 ἢ ptcl Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
- 1 Corinthians 11:5 ἢ ptcl But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
- 1 Corinthians 11:6 ἢ ptcl For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
- 1 Corinthians 11:22 ἢ ptcl What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
- 1 Corinthians 11:27 ἢ ptcl Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a manner unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
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At its core, η (ḗ) means “or.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:18. It appears 274 verses across 24 books of the Greek New Testament, among its common vocabulary. It clusters with η, ηδη and ηπερ under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
and
Modern gloss
or
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 G2228 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 →
- 274
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 274 distinct verses.
- 24 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 24 of 27 New Testament books.
- #51
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 51 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 274 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 48 verses 18%
- Luke 40 verses 15%
- 1 Corinthians 40 verses 15%
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 274 distinct verses.
- Gospels 122 verses · 45%
- Pauline corpus 98 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 70 verses · 26%
- Johannine 17 verses · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 16 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 4 verses · 1%
- Revelation 4 verses · 1%
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 258×, Than 32×, Either 9×
- American Standard Version: Or 242×, Than 27×, Rather than 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Or 238×, Than 32×, Than for 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Or 291×, Than 34×, Either 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2228 across 338 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 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 19 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2228 across 323 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 27 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 G2228 across 290 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 52 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2228 across 347 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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.
- either, or, than
Word origin
Origin: a primary particle of distinction between two connected terms
A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive or ; comparative than : - and but (either) (n-) either except it be (n-) or (else) rather save than that what yea. Often used in connection with other particles. Compare especially G2235 G2260 G2273 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2228 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἢ ḕ | Particle | Matthew 1:18 | 333 |
| ἤ ḗ | Particle | Matthew 6:31 | 9 |
| Ἢ Ḕ | Particle | Matthew 12:33 | 4 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2228, 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
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word η appears 810 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 639 verses in 36 books.
- 810
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 639
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 36 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 36 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:9 ἤ
- Exodus 1:19 ἤ
- Leviticus 1:14 ἤ
- Numbers 5:6 ἤ
- Deuteronomy 1:39 ἤ
- Joshua 2:8 ἤ
- Judges 2:22 ἤ
- Ruth 1:13 ἤ
- 1 Samuel 2:10 ἤ
- 2 Samuel 2:21 ἤ
- 1 Kings 2:42 ἤ
- 2 Kings 2:9 ἤ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2228) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 639. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:9 ἤ They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:12 ἤ The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
- Genesis 21:26 ἤ Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."
- Genesis 22:17 ἦ that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Genesis 24:21 ἤ The man looked steadfastly at her, holding his peace, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
- Genesis 24:38 ἤ but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'
- Genesis 24:49 ἤ Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
- Genesis 26:11 ἤ Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- Genesis 27:21 ἤ Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
- Genesis 28:17 ἤ He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
- Genesis 29:19 ἤ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
- Genesis 29:26 ἤ Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first born.
- Genesis 29:30 ἤ He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 31:14 ἤ Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
- Genesis 31:43 ἤ Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
- Genesis 37:8 ἤ His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
- Genesis 37:32 ἤ They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
- Genesis 38:26 ἤ Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
- Genesis 42:16 ἤἦ Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
- Genesis 44:8 ἤ Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Genesis 44:16 ἤ Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
- Genesis 44:19 ἤ My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
- Genesis 45:8 ἤ So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 47:18 ἤ When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
- Genesis 49:12 ἤ His eyes will be red with wine, His teeth white with milk.
- Exodus 1:19 ἤ The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
- Exodus 5:3 ἤ They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 7:9 ἤ "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"
- Exodus 10:7 ἤ Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
- Exodus 12:9 ἤ Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
- Exodus 12:44 ἤ but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
- Exodus 12:45 ἤ A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
- Exodus 13:12 ἤ that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be Yahweh's.
- Exodus 14:12 ἤ Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
- Exodus 16:4 ἤ Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
- Exodus 16:8 ἤ Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
- Exodus 17:7 ἤ He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
- Exodus 19:13 ἤ No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
- Exodus 21:4 ἤ If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
- Exodus 21:15 ἤ "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 21:16 ἤ "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:18 ἤ "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;
- Exodus 21:20 ἤ "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
- Exodus 21:21 ἤ Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
- Exodus 21:26 ἤ "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- Exodus 21:27 ἤ If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
- Exodus 21:28 ἤ "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
- Exodus 21:29 ἤ But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
- Exodus 21:31 ἤ Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
- Exodus 21:32 ἤ If the bull gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2228) 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.
