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 23:54 It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was beginning.
• Luke 23:55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was placed.
• Luke 24:6 He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:
• Luke 24:10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.
• Luke 24:13 That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
• Luke 24:21 But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.
• Luke 24:29 But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.
• Luke 24:32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
• Luke 24:38 “Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?
• Luke 24:39 Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see—for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
• Luke 24:44 Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
• Luke 24:48 You are witnesses of these things.
• Luke 24:53 praising God continually in the temple.
• John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• John 1:2 He was with God in the beginning.
• John 1:4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
• John 1:8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.
• John 1:9 The true Light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
• John 1:10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.
• John 1:15 John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
• John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
• John 1:19 And this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”
• John 1:20 He did not refuse to confess, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”
• John 1:21 “Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
• John 1:22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
• John 1:24 Then the Pharisees who had been sent
• John 1:25 asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
• John 1:27 He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
• John 1:28 All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
• John 1:30 This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’
• John 1:33 I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
• John 1:34 I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”
• John 1:39 “Come and see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and spent that day with Him. It was about the tenth hour.
• John 1:40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s testimony and followed Jesus.
• John 1:41 He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
• John 1:42 Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).
• John 1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.
• John 1:47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
• John 1:48 “How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”
• John 1:49 “Rabbi,” Nathanael answered, “You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
• John 2:1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
• John 2:6 Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.
• John 2:9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
• John 2:13 When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
• John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
• John 2:23 While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
• John 2:25 He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
• John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
• John 3:2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
• John 3:4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
• John 3:6 Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
• John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
• John 3:10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?
• John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
• John 3:19 And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
• John 3:21 But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
• John 3:23 Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
• John 3:24 (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
• John 3:26 So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Look, Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—He is baptizing, and everyone is going to Him.”
• John 3:27 John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.