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 11:41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
• John 11:49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
• John 11:51 Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
• John 11:55 Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
• John 11:57 But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.
• John 12:1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the hometown of Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
• John 12:2 So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.
• John 12:6 Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.
• John 12:9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there. And they came not only because of Him, but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
• John 12:14 Finding a young donkey, Jesus sat on it, as it is written:
• John 12:16 At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about Him.
• John 12:17 Meanwhile, many people who had been with Jesus when He called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.
• John 12:20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
• John 12:26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
• John 12:31 Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
• John 12:34 The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
• John 12:35 Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
• John 12:50 And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
• John 13:5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.
• John 13:10 Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”
• John 13:11 For He knew who would betray Him. That is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”
• John 13:13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.
• John 13:16 Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
• John 13:17 If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
• John 13:19 I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.
• John 13:23 One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.
• John 13:24 So Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus which one He was talking about.
• John 13:25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked, “Lord, who is it?”
• John 13:26 Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I give this morsel after I have dipped it.” Then He dipped the morsel and gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot.
• John 13:30 As soon as he had received the morsel, Judas went out into the night.
• John 13:33 Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
• John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
• John 14:2 In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
• John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
• John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• John 14:9 Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
• John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
• John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
• John 14:17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
• John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
• John 14:24 Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
• John 14:28 You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
• John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
• John 15:3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
• John 15:5 I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
• John 15:11 I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
• John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
• John 15:14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
• John 15:19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
• John 15:20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
• John 15:27 And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
• John 16:4 But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
• John 16:15 Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.
• John 16:17 Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”
• John 16:18 They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”
• John 16:24 Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
• John 16:32 “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
• John 17:3 Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
• John 17:6 I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
• John 17:7 Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.