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εἰ

MainId: 001511000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: True

AlphaPos: ε

StrongCodes: G1487

BaseForms:

BaseFormID: 001511001000000
PartsOfSpeech: conj.
LEXMeanings:
1. LEXID: 001511001001000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 89.65
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Relations
  LEXSubDomains: Condition
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-26 21:05:51
    DefinitionShort: a marker of a condition, real or hypothetical, actual or contrary to fact
    Glosses: if
  LEXReferences: MAT 4:3, MAT 4:6, MAT 5:29, MAT 5:30, MAT 6:23, MAT 7:11, MAT 8:31, MAT 10:25, MAT 11:14, MAT 11:21, MAT 11:23, MAT 12:7, MAT 12:26, MAT 12:27, MAT 12:28, MAT 14:28, MAT 16:24, MAT 17:4, MAT 18:8, MAT 18:9, MAT 18:28, MAT 19:3, MAT 19:10, MAT 19:17, MAT 19:21, MAT 22:45, MAT 23:30, MAT 24:24, MAT 24:43, MAT 26:24, MAT 26:33, MAT 26:39, MAT 26:42, MAT 27:40, MAT 27:43, MARK 3:26, MARK 4:23, MARK 8:23, MARK 8:34, MARK 9:22, MARK 9:23, MARK 9:35, MARK 9:42, MARK 10:2, MARK 11:13, MARK 11:25, MARK 13:22, MARK 14:21, MARK 14:29, MARK 14:35, LUKE 4:3, LUKE 4:9, LUKE 6:32, LUKE 7:39, LUKE 9:23, LUKE 10:13, LUKE 11:8, LUKE 11:13, LUKE 11:18, LUKE 11:19, LUKE 11:20, LUKE 11:36, LUKE 12:39, LUKE 12:49, LUKE 14:26, LUKE 16:11, LUKE 16:12, LUKE 16:31, LUKE 17:2, LUKE 17:6, LUKE 19:8, LUKE 19:42, LUKE 22:42, LUKE 23:31, LUKE 23:35, LUKE 23:37, YHN 1:25, YHN 3:12, YHN 4:10, YHN 5:46, YHN 5:47, YHN 7:4, YHN 8:19, YHN 8:39, YHN 8:42, YHN 8:46, YHN 9:33, YHN 9:41, YHN 10:24, YHN 10:35, YHN 10:37, YHN 10:38, YHN 11:12, YHN 11:21, YHN 11:32, YHN 13:17, YHN 14:7, YHN 14:28, YHN 15:18, YHN 15:19, YHN 15:20, YHN 15:20, YHN 15:22, YHN 15:24, YHN 18:8, YHN 18:23, YHN 18:23, YHN 18:36, YHN 20:15, ACTs 1:6, ACTs 4:9, ACTs 4:19, ACTs 5:39, ACTs 8:22, ACTs 11:17, ACTs 13:15, ACTs 16:15, ACTs 18:14, ACTs 18:15, ACTs 19:2, ACTs 19:38, ACTs 19:39, ACTs 20:16, ACTs 21:37, ACTs 23:9, ACTs 24:19, ACTs 25:5, ACTs 25:11, ACTs 25:11, ACTs 27:39, ROM 2:17, ROM 3:3, ROM 3:5, ROM 3:7, ROM 4:2, ROM 4:14, ROM 5:10, ROM 5:15, ROM 5:17, ROM 7:16, ROM 7:20, ROM 8:9, ROM 8:10, ROM 8:11, ROM 8:13, ROM 8:13, ROM 8:17, ROM 8:25, ROM 11:6, ROM 11:12, ROM 11:14, ROM 11:15, ROM 11:16, ROM 11:16, ROM 11:17, ROM 11:18, ROM 11:21, ROM 11:24, ROM 12:18, ROM 13:9, ROM 14:15, 1COR 1:16, 1COR 2:8, 1COR 3:12, 1COR 3:14, 1COR 3:15, 1COR 3:17, 1COR 3:18, 1COR 4:7, 1COR 6:2, 1COR 7:9, 1COR 7:12, 1COR 7:13, 1COR 7:15, 1COR 7:21, 1COR 7:36, 1COR 8:2, 1COR 8:3, 1COR 8:13, 1COR 9:2, 1COR 9:11, 1COR 9:11, 1COR 9:12, 1COR 9:17, 1COR 9:17, 1COR 10:27, 1COR 10:30, 1COR 11:6, 1COR 11:16, 1COR 11:31, 1COR 11:34, 1COR 12:17, 1COR 12:17, 1COR 12:19, 1COR 14:35, 1COR 14:37, 1COR 14:38, 1COR 15:2, 1COR 15:12, 1COR 15:13, 1COR 15:14, 1COR 15:16, 1COR 15:17, 1COR 15:19, 1COR 15:29, 1COR 15:32, 1COR 15:32, 1COR 15:44, 1COR 16:22, 2COR 2:2, 2COR 2:5, 2COR 2:10, 2COR 3:7, 2COR 3:9, 2COR 3:11, 2COR 4:3, 2COR 5:17, 2COR 7:14, 2COR 8:12, 2COR 10:7, 2COR 11:4, 2COR 11:15, 2COR 11:20, 2COR 11:20, 2COR 11:20, 2COR 11:20, 2COR 11:20, 2COR 11:30, 2COR 12:15, GAL 1:9, GAL 1:10, GAL 2:14, GAL 2:17, GAL 2:18, GAL 2:21, GAL 3:4, GAL 3:18, GAL 3:21, GAL 4:15, GAL 5:11, GAL 5:15, GAL 5:18, GAL 5:25, GAL 6:3, EPH 3:2, EPH 4:21, EPH 4:29, PHP 1:22, PHP 2:1, PHP 2:1, PHP 2:1, PHP 2:1, PHP 2:17, PHP 3:4, PHP 3:15, PHP 4:8, PHP 4:8, COL 1:23, COL 2:5, 1TH 4:14, TIT 1:6, HEB 3:11, HEB 3:18, HEB 4:3, HEB 4:5, HEB 7:15, YAC 3:3, 1PET 2:3, 1PET 2:19, 1PET 4:14, 1YHN 2:19, 1YHN 3:13, 2YHN 1:10
2. LEXID: 001511001002000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 89.30
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Relations
  LEXSubDomains: Cause and/or Reason
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-26 21:05:51
    DefinitionShort: a marker of cause or reason on the basis that an actual case is regarded formally as a supposition
    Glosses: ['since', 'because']
    Comments: In English it is possible to translate εἰ in passages such as {S:04500600800002} and {S:04000603000002} as either ‘if’ or ‘since,’ for the conjunction ‘if’ may also refer to an actual event as a supposition. In a number of languages, however, it is impossible to translate ‘if God so clothes the grass of the field,’ for this would imply serious doubt as to whether God actually does perform such an activity. It may therefore be necessary in such languages to translate quite specifically ‘because’ or ‘since.’
  LEXReferences: MAT 6:30, LUKE 12:26, LUKE 12:28, YHN 7:23, YHN 13:14, YHN 13:32, ROM 6:5, ROM 6:8, ROM 8:31, ROM 15:27, 1COR 11:6, 2COR 5:3, GAL 3:29, GAL 4:7, COL 2:20, COL 3:1, 1TH 4:14, HEB 7:15, YAC 3:3, 1PET 1:17, 1PET 2:3, 1YHN 4:11, 1YHN 5:9
3. LEXID: 001511001003000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 90.26
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Case
  LEXSubDomains: Content
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-26 21:05:51
    DefinitionShort: a marker of an indirect question as content
    Glosses: ['whether', 'if', 'that']
  LEXReferences: MAT 12:10, MAT 26:63, MAT 27:49, MARK 3:2, MARK 15:36, MARK 15:44, MARK 15:44, LUKE 6:7, LUKE 6:9, LUKE 13:23, LUKE 14:28, LUKE 14:31, LUKE 22:49, LUKE 22:67, LUKE 23:6, YHN 9:25, ACTs 5:8, ACTs 7:1, ACTs 10:18, ACTs 17:11, ACTs 17:27, ACTs 19:2, ACTs 22:25, ACTs 25:20, ACTs 26:8, ACTs 26:23, ACTs 26:23, ACTs 27:12, ROM 9:22, ROM 11:14, 1COR 7:16, 1COR 7:16, 2COR 2:9, 2COR 13:5, PHP 3:12, HEB 7:15, 1YHN 3:13, 1YHN 4:1
4. LEXID: 001511001004000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 89.131
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Relations
  LEXSubDomains: Contrast
  LEXCollocations: εἰ μή
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-26 21:05:51
    DefinitionShort: a marker of contrast by designating an exception
    Glosses: ['except that', 'but', 'however', 'instead', 'but only']
  LEXReferences: MAT 5:13, MAT 11:27, MAT 11:27, MAT 12:4, MAT 12:24, MAT 12:39, MAT 13:57, MAT 14:17, MAT 15:24, MAT 16:4, MAT 17:8, MAT 21:19, MAT 24:22, MAT 24:36, MARK 2:7, MARK 2:26, MARK 5:37, MARK 6:4, MARK 6:5, MARK 6:8, MARK 8:14, MARK 9:9, MARK 9:29, MARK 10:18, MARK 11:13, MARK 13:20, MARK 13:32, LUKE 4:26, LUKE 4:27, LUKE 5:21, LUKE 6:4, LUKE 8:51, LUKE 10:22, LUKE 10:22, LUKE 11:29, LUKE 17:18, LUKE 18:19, YHN 3:13, YHN 6:22, YHN 6:46, YHN 10:10, YHN 13:10, YHN 14:6, YHN 17:12, YHN 18:30, YHN 19:11, YHN 19:15, ACTs 11:19, ACTs 26:32, ROM 7:7, ROM 7:7, ROM 9:29, ROM 11:15, ROM 13:1, ROM 13:8, ROM 14:14, 1COR 1:14, 1COR 2:2, 1COR 2:11, 1COR 2:11, 1COR 7:17, 1COR 8:4, 1COR 10:13, 1COR 12:3, 1COR 14:5, 1COR 15:2, 2COR 2:2, 2COR 12:5, 2COR 12:13, GAL 1:7, GAL 1:19, GAL 6:14, EPH 4:9, PHP 4:15, HEB 3:18, 1YHN 2:22, 1YHN 5:5
5. LEXID: 001511001005000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 91.8
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Discourse Markers
  LEXSubDomains: Markers of Emphasis
  LEXCollocations: εἰ μήν
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-26 21:05:51
    DefinitionShort: a marker of considerable emphasis (in comparison with {L:δήπου}[b], {D:91.7})
    Glosses: ['surely', 'certainly']
  LEXReferences: HEB 6:14
6. LEXID: 001511001006000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 71.13
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Mode
  LEXSubDomains: Probable, Improbable
  LEXCollocations: εἰ τύχοι
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-26 21:05:51
    DefinitionShort: (an idiom, literally: if it should happen) a marker of a degree of probability
    Glosses: probably
  LEXReferences: 1COR 14:10, 1COR 15:37