εἰμί eimí

Meaning

I exist (used only when emphatic)

In the King James Version: am, have been, X it is I, was

Derivation: the first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb;

Where it is used

• Luke 8:30 “What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.
• Luke 8:32 There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.
• Luke 8:40 When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.
• Luke 8:42 because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,
• Luke 8:43 including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
• Luke 9:9 “I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this man I hear such things about?” And he kept trying to see Jesus.
• Luke 9:12 As the day neared its end, the Twelve came to Jesus and said, “Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside for lodging and provisions. For we are in a desolate place here.”
• Luke 9:13 But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
• Luke 9:14 (There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
• Luke 9:27 But I tell you truly, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”
• Luke 9:30 Suddenly two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with Jesus.
• Luke 9:32 Meanwhile Peter and his companions were overcome by sleep, but when they awoke, they saw Jesus’ glory and the two men standing with Him.
• Luke 9:33 As Moses and Elijah were leaving, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what he was saying.)
• Luke 9:35 And a voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, whom I have chosen. Listen to Him!”
• Luke 9:38 Suddenly a man in the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only child.
• Luke 9:41 “O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
• Luke 9:45 But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
• Luke 9:46 Then an argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.
• Luke 9:48 And He said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes the One who sent Me. For whoever is the least among all of you, he is the greatest.”
• Luke 9:50 “Do not stop him,” Jesus replied, “for whoever is not against you is for you.”
• Luke 9:53 But the people there refused to welcome Him, because He was heading for Jerusalem.
• Luke 9:55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them.
• Luke 9:62 Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
• Luke 10:6 If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you.
• Luke 10:7 Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
• Luke 10:12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
• Luke 10:14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.
• Luke 10:22 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
• Luke 10:29 But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
• Luke 10:39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.
• Luke 10:42 But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
• Luke 11:7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
• Luke 11:14 One day Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. And when the demon was gone, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed,
• Luke 11:19 And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
• Luke 11:21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure.
• Luke 11:23 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
• Luke 11:29 As the crowds were increasing, Jesus said, “This is a wicked generation. It demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.
• Luke 11:30 For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.
• Luke 11:34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.
• Luke 11:35 Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
• Luke 11:36 So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.”
• Luke 11:41 But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you.
• Luke 11:44 Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
• Luke 11:48 So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
• Luke 12:1 In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Luke 12:2 There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
• Luke 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
• Luke 12:15 And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
• Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• Luke 12:23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
• Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
• Luke 12:28 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
• Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
• Luke 12:35 Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
• Luke 12:38 Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.
• Luke 12:42 And the Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their portion at the proper time?
• Luke 12:52 From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.
• Luke 12:55 And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it is.
• Luke 13:10 One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
• Luke 13:11 and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.