Strong G14877 sensesεἰ

if · if: not · if: even though · if: is(QUESTION) · if: else · if: if only …

Transliteration
ei
Pronunciation
i

The 7 senses of Strong G1487

The lexicon tells 7 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong G1487 appears in 460 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. ifG1487G316 verses · 25 books
  2. if: notG1487H82 verses · 15 books
  3. if: even thoughG1487M15 verses · 9 books
  4. if: is(QUESTION)G1487I11 verses · 4 books
  5. if: elseG1487L9 verses · 5 books
  6. if: if onlyG1487J4 verses · Luke, Romans, 1 Corinthians
  7. if: surelyG1487K2 verses · Acts

General definition

A primary particle of conditionality;
if whether 6
that etc.: - forasmuch as if that ([al-]) though whether. Often used in connection or composition with other particles especially as in G1489 G1490 G1499 G1508 G1509 G1512 G1513 G1536 and G1537 . See also G1437 .

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • if309
  • but34
  • whether21
  • save14
  • though11
  • except10
  • that10
  • else5
  • be3
  • have3
  • or3
  • although1

First verses

  1. Matthew 4:3
    And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
  2. Matthew 4:6
    And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
  3. Matthew 5:13
    Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
  4. Matthew 5:29
    And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
  5. Matthew 5:30
    And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
  6. Matthew 6:1
    Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
  7. Matthew 6:23
    But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
  8. Matthew 6:30
    Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
  9. Matthew 7:11
    If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
  10. Matthew 8:31
    So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
  11. Matthew 9:17
    Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
  12. Matthew 10:25
    It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
  13. Matthew 11:14
    And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
  14. Matthew 11:21
    Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
  15. Matthew 11:23
    And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
  16. Matthew 11:27
    All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
  17. Matthew 12:4
    How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
  18. Matthew 12:7
    But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
  19. Matthew 12:10
    And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
  20. Matthew 12:24
    But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.