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 13:14 But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”
• Luke 13:16 Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
• Luke 13:18 Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
• Luke 13:19 It is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”
• Luke 13:21 It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
• Luke 13:25 After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
• Luke 13:27 And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
• Luke 13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
• Luke 13:30 And indeed, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”
• Luke 14:1 One Sabbath, Jesus went to eat in the home of a leading Pharisee, and those in attendance were watching Him closely.
• Luke 14:2 Right there before Him was a man with dropsy.
• Luke 14:8 “When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.
• Luke 14:10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.
• Luke 14:14 and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
• Luke 14:17 When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’
• Luke 14:22 ‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
• Luke 14:24 For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”
• Luke 14:31 Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
• Luke 14:32 And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
• Luke 14:35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile, and it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
• Luke 15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.
• Luke 15:7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
• Luke 15:19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’
• Luke 15:21 The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
• Luke 15:24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
• Luke 15:25 Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.
• Luke 15:26 So he called one of the servants and asked what was going on.
• Luke 15:31 ‘Son, you are always with me,’ the father said, ‘and all that is mine is yours.
• Luke 15:32 But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
• Luke 16:1 Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
• Luke 16:8 The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
• Luke 16:10 Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
• Luke 16:15 So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
• Luke 16:17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
• Luke 16:19 Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
• Luke 16:20 And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
• Luke 17:1 Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
• Luke 17:10 So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
• Luke 17:16 He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan.
• Luke 17:21 Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
• Luke 17:24 For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.
• Luke 17:26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
• Luke 17:30 It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
• Luke 17:31 On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
• Luke 17:34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left.
• Luke 17:35 Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”
• Luke 18:2 “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.
• Luke 18:3 And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
• Luke 18:9 To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
• Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
• Luke 18:16 But Jesus called the children to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
• Luke 18:23 But when the ruler heard this, he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy.
• Luke 18:25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
• Luke 18:27 But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
• Luke 18:29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
• Luke 18:34 But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.
• Luke 18:36 When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.
• Luke 19:2 And there was a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, who was very wealthy.
• Luke 19:3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but could not see over the crowd because he was small in stature.
• Luke 19:9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham.