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

• John 6:62 Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
• John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
• John 6:64 However, there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)
• John 6:65 Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
• John 6:69 We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”
• John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
• John 6:71 He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.
• John 7:2 However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
• John 7:6 Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
• John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
• John 7:11 So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
• John 7:12 Many in the crowds were whispering about Him. Some said, “He is a good man.” But others replied, “No, He deceives the people.”
• John 7:16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.
• John 7:17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
• John 7:18 He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.
• John 7:22 But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
• John 7:25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
• John 7:26 Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
• John 7:27 But we know where this man is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where He is from.”
• John 7:28 Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
• John 7:29 but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
• John 7:33 So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
• John 7:34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
• John 7:36 What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
• John 7:39 He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
• John 7:40 On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
• John 7:41 Others declared, “This is the Christ.” But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
• John 7:42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
• John 7:49 But this crowd that does not know the law—they are under a curse.”
• John 7:50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
• John 7:52 “Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
• John 8:10 Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”
• John 8:12 Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• John 8:13 So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid.”
• John 8:14 Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
• John 8:16 But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.
• John 8:17 Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
• John 8:18 I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”
• John 8:19 “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
• John 8:23 Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
• John 8:24 That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
• John 8:25 “Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
• John 8:26 “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
• John 8:28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
• John 8:29 He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
• John 8:31 So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
• John 8:33 “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
• John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
• John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
• John 8:37 I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
• John 8:39 “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
• John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
• John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• John 8:47 Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
• John 8:48 The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
• John 8:50 I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.
• John 8:53 Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”
• John 8:54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
• John 8:55 You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
• John 8:58 “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”