ἐάν ean

Greek word for “if” · Strong’s G1437 · used 336 times in 310 verses

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Meaning

ἐάν, contr. fr. εἰ ἄν;

How it is translated

Glosses given for ean in context, with how often each is used:

• if 248
• only 49
• maybe 25
• when 4
• if indeed 3
• might 2
• what if 1
• then 1
• though 1
• ever 1
• now if 1

Where it is used

Also in 9 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Corinthians 14 (11), Matthew 18 (10), Matthew 5 (7), John 8 (7), 1 Corinthians 7 (6), 1 Corinthians 16 (6), 1 John 2 (6), Matthew 21 (5), Mark 9 (5), John 3 (5)

Forms

• ἐὰν 278
• ἐάν 45
• Ἐὰν 9
• ἐάνπερ 3
• Ἐάν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ean more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἤ ē “or” 27
• θέλω thelō “to will/desire” 23
• μένω menō “to stay” 18
• δύναμαι dunamai “be able” 21
• πατήρ patēr “father” 25
• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 22
• ἀμήν amēn “amen” 16
• δίδωμι didōmi “to give” 21
• ἑαυτοῦ heautou “themself” 19
• πιστεύω pisteuō “to trust (in)” 17
• εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai “to enter” 16
• ἀφίημι aphiēmi “to release” 14

Key verses

The verses using ean that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 11:27 — All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to…
• John 7:37 — In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
• John 12:26 — If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
• Galatians 6:1 — Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be…
• Galatians 6:7 — Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
• 1 Timothy 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and…
• Hebrews 3:6 — But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• 1 John 1:7 — But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1 John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 1 John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• 1 John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall…
• Revelation 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.