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 4:33 In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon. He cried out in a loud voice,
• Luke 4:34 “Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
• Luke 4:38 After Jesus had left the synagogue, He went to the home of Simon, whose mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. So they appealed to Jesus on her behalf,
• Luke 4:41 Demons also came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked the demons and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.
• Luke 4:44 And He continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.
• Luke 5:1 On one occasion, while Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret with the crowd pressing in on Him to hear the word of God,
• Luke 5:3 Jesus got into the boat belonging to Simon and asked him to put out a little from shore. And sitting down, He taught the people from the boat.
• Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
• Luke 5:10 and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon. “From now on you will catch men.”
• Luke 5:16 Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
• Luke 5:17 One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.
• Luke 5:18 Just then some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to bring him inside to set him before Jesus,
• Luke 5:21 But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
• Luke 5:23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?
• Luke 5:29 Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.
• Luke 5:34 Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
• Luke 5:39 And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
• Luke 6:3 Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?
• Luke 6:5 Then Jesus declared, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
• Luke 6:6 On another Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.
• Luke 6:12 In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
• Luke 6:20 Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
• Luke 6:22 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
• Luke 6:32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
• Luke 6:33 If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.
• Luke 6:34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.
• Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
• Luke 6:36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
• Luke 6:40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
• Luke 6:43 No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
• Luke 6:47 I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
• Luke 6:48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
• Luke 6:49 But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell—and great was its destruction!”
• Luke 7:2 There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die.
• Luke 7:4 They came to Jesus and pleaded with Him earnestly, “This man is worthy to have You grant this,
• Luke 7:6 So Jesus went with them. But when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends with the message: “Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy to have You come under my roof.
• Luke 7:8 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
• Luke 7:12 As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
• Luke 7:19 So John called two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
• Luke 7:20 When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?’”
• Luke 7:23 Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
• Luke 7:25 Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.
• Luke 7:27 This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’
• Luke 7:28 I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John, yet even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”
• Luke 7:31 “To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
• Luke 7:32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
• Luke 7:37 When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.
• Luke 7:39 When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”
• Luke 7:41 “Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
• Luke 7:49 But those at the table began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
• Luke 8:2 as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
• Luke 8:9 Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant.
• Luke 8:11 Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
• Luke 8:12 The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
• Luke 8:14 The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
• Luke 8:15 But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
• Luke 8:17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be made known and brought to light.
• Luke 8:21 But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
• Luke 8:25 “Where is your faith?” He asked. Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”
• Luke 8:26 Then they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, across the lake from Galilee.