εἶναι einai

Greek word for “to exist” · Strong’s G1511 · used 124 times in 123 verses

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Meaning

εἰμί; with various uses and significations, like the English verb to be.;

How it is translated

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

• be 92
• being 15
• be? 8
• there to be 2
• become 1
• taken 1
• happening 1
• existing 1
• have 1
• remain 1
• himself to be 1

Where it is used

Also in 8 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 2 (4), Luke 20 (4), Acts 17 (4), Acts 18 (4), 1 Corinthians 7 (4), Luke 9 (3), Luke 14 (3), Romans 4 (3), Titus 2 (3), Matthew 16 (2)

Forms

• εἶναι 114
• εἶναί 10

Words used with it

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

• δοκέω dokeō “to think” 13
• θέλω thelō “to will/desire” 14
• ἑαυτοῦ heautou “themself” 15
• εἰ ei “if” 16
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 12
• νομίζω nomizō “to think” 5
• ἐπερωτάω eperōtaō “to question” 6
• ὑπάρχω huparchō “be already” 6
• μαθητής mathētēs “disciple” 8
• λογίζομαι logizomai “to count” 5
• ἀνάστασις anastasis “resurrection” 5
• ἀνήρ anēr “man” 7

Key verses

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

• Luke 23:2 — And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, saying that he himself is Christ a…
• Romans 4:11 — And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all…
• Romans 8:29 — For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Romans 15:16 — That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being…
• 1 Corinthians 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
• Ephesians 1:4 — According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
• Ephesians 1:12 — That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
• Philippians 2:6 — Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
• Philippians 3:8 — Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things,…
• James 1:18 — Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• James 4:4 — Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy…
• 1 Peter 1:21 — Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

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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.