Strong G1520εἷς
one
- Transliteration
- heis
- Pronunciation
- hice
- Morphology
- Greek Number (Indeclinable)
Definition
Detailed definition
εἷς
ιά, ἕν, genitive ἑνός, μιᾶς, ἑνός,
cardinal numeral, one;
1. one, as opposite to many: Mat.25:15, Rom.5:12, 1Co.10:8, al.; as subst., Rom.5:15, Eph.2:14; id. with genitive partit., Mat.5:19, al.; before ἐκ (ἐξ), Mrk.14:18, Jhn.6:8, al.; metaphorically, of union and concord, Jhn.10:30 17:11, Rom.12:4-5, Php.1:27; ἀπὸ μιᾶς (B1., § 44, 1), Luk.14:18; with neg., εἷς... οὐ (μή), more emphatic than οὐδείς, no one, none (cl.), Mat.5:18 10:29, Luk.11:46 12:6.
2. Emphatically, to the exclusion of others;
__(a) a single (one): Mat.21:24, Mrk.8:14; absol., 1Co.9:24, al.; οὐδὲ εἷς, Mat.27:14, Jhn.1:3, Rom.3:10, al.;
__(b) one, alone: Mrk.2:7 10:18, Luk.18:19;
__(with) one and the same: Rom.3:30, 1Co.3:8 11:5 12:11, 1Jn.5:8.
3. In late Gk., with weakened force, = τις or indef. art. (of. Heb. אֶחָד, Gen.22:13, al.; see B1., § 45, 2; M, Pr., 96 f.): Mat.8:19 19:6, Rev.8:13, al.; εἷς τις (Bl., l.with), Luk.22:50, Jhn.11:49
4. Distributively: εἷς καστος (cl.), Luk.4:40, Act.2:6, al.; εἷς... καὶ εἷς (cl., εἷς μὲν... εἷς δέ), Mat.17:4, Mrk.9:5, Jhn.20:12, al. (cf. LXX and use of Heb. אֶחָד, Exo.17:12, al); ὁ εἷς... ὁ ἕτερος (ἄλλος) = cl. ὁ μὲν (ἕτερος)... ὁ δέ (ἕτερος), Mat.6:24, Luk.7:41, Rev.17:10; καθ᾽ εἷς, εἷς κ. είς (in which καθ᾽ is adverbial, or the expression formed from the analogy of ἕν καθ᾽ ἔν; M, Pr., 105), one by one, severally: Mrk.14:19, Rom.12:5, al.; εἷς τὸν ἕνα = ἀλλήλους (B1., 45, 2; M, Pr., 246), 1Th.5:11.
5. As ordinal = πρῶτος (like Heb. אֶחָד; Bl., § 45, 1; M, Pr., 95 f.), first: Mat.28:1, Mrk.16:2, al
(AS)
ιά, ἕν, genitive ἑνός, μιᾶς, ἑνός,
cardinal numeral, one;
1. one, as opposite to many: Mat.25:15, Rom.5:12, 1Co.10:8, al.; as subst., Rom.5:15, Eph.2:14; id. with genitive partit., Mat.5:19, al.; before ἐκ (ἐξ), Mrk.14:18, Jhn.6:8, al.; metaphorically, of union and concord, Jhn.10:30 17:11, Rom.12:4-5, Php.1:27; ἀπὸ μιᾶς (B1., § 44, 1), Luk.14:18; with neg., εἷς... οὐ (μή), more emphatic than οὐδείς, no one, none (cl.), Mat.5:18 10:29, Luk.11:46 12:6.
2. Emphatically, to the exclusion of others;
__(a) a single (one): Mat.21:24, Mrk.8:14; absol., 1Co.9:24, al.; οὐδὲ εἷς, Mat.27:14, Jhn.1:3, Rom.3:10, al.;
__(b) one, alone: Mrk.2:7 10:18, Luk.18:19;
__(with) one and the same: Rom.3:30, 1Co.3:8 11:5 12:11, 1Jn.5:8.
3. In late Gk., with weakened force, = τις or indef. art. (of. Heb. אֶחָד, Gen.22:13, al.; see B1., § 45, 2; M, Pr., 96 f.): Mat.8:19 19:6, Rev.8:13, al.; εἷς τις (Bl., l.with), Luk.22:50, Jhn.11:49
4. Distributively: εἷς καστος (cl.), Luk.4:40, Act.2:6, al.; εἷς... καὶ εἷς (cl., εἷς μὲν... εἷς δέ), Mat.17:4, Mrk.9:5, Jhn.20:12, al. (cf. LXX and use of Heb. אֶחָד, Exo.17:12, al); ὁ εἷς... ὁ ἕτερος (ἄλλος) = cl. ὁ μὲν (ἕτερος)... ὁ δέ (ἕτερος), Mat.6:24, Luk.7:41, Rev.17:10; καθ᾽ εἷς, εἷς κ. είς (in which καθ᾽ is adverbial, or the expression formed from the analogy of ἕν καθ᾽ ἔν; M, Pr., 105), one by one, severally: Mrk.14:19, Rom.12:5, al.; εἷς τὸν ἕνα = ἀλλήλους (B1., 45, 2; M, Pr., 246), 1Th.5:11.
5. As ordinal = πρῶτος (like Heb. אֶחָד; Bl., § 45, 1; M, Pr., 95 f.), first: Mat.28:1, Mrk.16:2, al
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1520 appears in 296 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- one250
- first8
- a7
- other7
- thing7
- certain5
- an2
- another2
- man2
- some2
- any1
- here1
First verses
- Matthew 5:18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
- Matthew 5:19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 5:29And 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.
- Matthew 5:30And 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.
- Matthew 5:36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
- Matthew 5:41And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
- Matthew 6:24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- Matthew 6:27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
- Matthew 6:29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
- Matthew 8:19And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
- Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
- Matthew 10:42And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
- Matthew 12:11And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
- Matthew 13:46Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
- Matthew 16:14And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
- Matthew 17:4Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
- Matthew 18:5And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
- Matthew 18:6But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
- Matthew 18:10Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 18:12How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
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εἷς, μίᾰ, ἕν
(μίη only in late Ionic dialect Prose): genitive ἑνός, μιᾶς, ἑνός:—Epic dialect ἕεις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 145, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.341 (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus), conjecture in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.603)]:—Doric dialect ἧς [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Rhinthon Comicus 12, “Tab.Heracl.” 1.136)]:—Epic dialect, Aeolic dialect, and Ionic dialect feminine ἴᾰ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.354, probably in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.37; _accusative_ ἴαν 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 33.6 (probably), 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 69.1 (compare μηδεΐα), 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica “Supp.” 2.56, “IG” 9(2).517.22(Thess.); _genitive_ ἰῆς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.173, 24.496; _dative_ ἰῇ 9.319, 11.174, etc.)]: neuter dative (ἰῷ κίον ἤματι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (6.422. (In Comedy texts οὐδὲ (μηδὲ) εἷς, οὐδὲ (μηδὲ) ἕν, occur, mostly at the end of an iambic trimeter, without elision, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 302, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 927, “Pl.” 37, 138, +others))] (Orig. ἕνς, assim. ἔν (δ) probably in [Refs (“Leg.Gort.” 9.50, from *εμς,)] Indo-European sem-(compare ὁμός); μία from sm-ί; ἴα is not related to μία, but probably to pronominal stem i-(Latin is), compareἰός.)
1 as a Numeral, εἷς κοίρανος ἔστω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.204, etc.)]; strengthened, εἷς οἶος, μία οἴη, a single
A one, one alone,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (4.397, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.65; μία μούνη 23.227; εἷς μοῦνος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.119, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1053, etc.; εἷς καὶ μόνος 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.74; εἷς ὤν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 247, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 894, etc.; opposed to πολύς, μία τὰς πολλὰς ψυχὰς ὀλέσασα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1456, compare 1465, “Ch.” 299, etc.)]
b emphatically with a superlative, εἷς οἰωνὸς ἄριστος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.243, etc.: frequently in Trag., εἷς ἀνὴρ πλεῖστον..πόνον παρασχών 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 327; πλείστας ἀνὴρ εἷς.. ἔγημε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 460; κάλλιστ᾽ ἀνὴρ εἷς [prev. author] “OT” 1380; ἕνακριθέντ᾽ ἄριστον [prev. author] “Ph.” 1344)]; also in Prose, ἐπὶ πλεῖστον δὴ χλιδῆς εἷς ἀνὴρ ἀπίκετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.127, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.68; Μυτιληναίους μάλιστα δὴ μίαν πόλιν [prev. author] 3.39; πάντων εἷς ἀνὴρ μεγίστων αἴτιος κακῶν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.143)]: without a superlative, Ἐτεοκλέης ἂν εἷς πολὺς κατὰ πτόλιν ὑμνοῖθ᾽ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 6.)]
c in oppos., made emphatic by the Article, ὁ εἷς, ἡ μία, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.272, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.110, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 48a; τοῦ ἑνὸς οἱ δύο ἀγαθοὶ βελτίους 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287b13, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.22.)]
d with a negative, εἷς οὐδείς no single man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32; ἓν οὐδὲ ἓν ἴαμα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.51)]; οὐκ ἐν ἄλλῳ ἑνί γε χωρίῳ in no other single country, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.80)]; οὐχ εἷς, i.e. more than one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 103, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 96)]; εἷς οὐ.., εἷς μή.., emphatic for οὐδείς, μηδείς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 549, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.12)]; more emphatic, οὐδὲ εἷς, μηδὲ εἷς, see at {οὐδείς},{μηδείς}.
e εἷς ἕκαστος each one, each by himself, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 332c, etc.)]; αἴσθησις μία ἑνός (i.e. γένους) one of each, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1003b19: _plural_, ἑκάτεροι ἕνες “POxy.” 276.8 (1st c.AD).)]
f with κατά, καθ᾽ ἓν ἕκαστον each singly, piece by piece, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.9, etc.)]; καθ᾽ ἕν one by one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 217a, etc.)]; καθ᾽ ἕν, τό, list, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Elephantine Papyri 20.7 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]; καθ᾽ ἕν᾽ ἡμῶν ἕκαστον ἀποστερεῖν to deprive each of us singly, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.142, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 164, 186)]; εἷς κατὰ εἷς one by one, [NT (NT.Mark.14.19)]; but καθ᾽ ἓν γίγνεσθαι, εἶναι, to be united, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.46, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.16.)]
g with other Preps., ἓν ἀνθ᾽ ἑνός above all,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 331b, “Phlb.” 63c)]; but μίαν ἀντὶ μιᾶς alternately, [Refs (PStrassb. 25.13)], etc.; ἐπὶ μίαν ἑκάστην ῥάβδον τιθέντες θεσπίζουσι one by one, separately, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.67; ἐπὶ ἑνός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 157a; ἓν ἐφ᾽ ἑνί [prev. author] “Sph.” 229b, “Lg.” 758b: ἓν πρὸς ἕν, with or without συμβάλλειν, in comparisons, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.50, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 647b; πρὸς ἕν᾽ εἷς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.131: παρ᾽ ἕνα)]alternately, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 12; εἰς ἓν συναγαγεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1640; ἰσχὺς τοσαύτη εἰς ἓν ξυστᾶσα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.85; εἰς ἓν μοίρας συνέκυρσας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1172; ἐς μίαν βουλεύειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.379; in full, ἐς μίαν βουλήν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.111; εἰς μίαν νοεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 5.9; ἓν ἐξ ἑνὸς ἐπισεσώρευκεν 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.10.5, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Asin.” 54)]; ἀπὸ μιᾶς with one accord, [NT (NT.Luke.14.18; ὑφ᾽ ἕν)]at once, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 10.124; also ὑφ᾽ ἓν θέσθαι τὸ ὂν τῷ μὴ ὄντι 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.1)]; compare ὑφέν.
h in compound numerals, as an ordinal, τῷ ἑνὶ καὶ τριηκοστῷ [ἔτει] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.89, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.109, etc.)]; so in Attic dialect Inscrr., [Refs (“IG” 2.660.30, +others,: later εἷς)] alone,=first, [LXX (LXX.Gen.1.5; μιᾷ τοῦ μηνός [prev. work] 8.13.)]
i μίαν μίαν, ={κατὰ μίαν}, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 201; εἷς εἷς LXX.1Ch.24.6.)]
i.2 one, i.e. the same, τώ μοι μία γείνατο μήτηρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.238, etc.)]; εἷς καὶ ὁ αὐτός one and the same, ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸν ἀριθμῷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1039a28, etc.; ὑπὸ μίαν καὶ τὰν αὐτὰν ἀρχάν Perictione Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 3.1.121; ταὐτὸν καὶ ἕν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 201b3; so ἓν καὶ ὅμοιον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 271a; εἷς καὶ κοινός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.699f: with _dative_, ἐμοὶ μιᾶς ἐγένετ᾽ ἐκ ματρός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 156; ἐκ μιᾶς οἰνοχόης Ἐπικούρῳ πεπωκότες 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1089a.)]
i.2.b possessing unity, ἧττον μία ἡ μίμησις ἡ τῶν ἐποποιῶν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1462b3; λίαν ἓν ποιεῖν τὴν πόλιν [prev. author] “Pol.” 1263b7; τὰ κυρίως ἕνα 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 437.)]
i.3 one, opposed to another, ἓν μὲν..ἓν δὲ.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1139a6, “Pol.” 1285b38, etc.; ὁ μὲν..εἷς δὲ..εἷς δ᾽ αὖ.. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.421 {εἷσα}, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 369d; εἷς μὲν..ἕτερος δὲ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.23.)]
i.4 indefinitely, εἷς τις some one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 118, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 471e, etc.; ἐξ ἑνός γέ του τρόπου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.34; rarely τις εἷς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 269, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 145d)]; εἷς γάρ τις ἦν ἕκαστος οὑξειργασμένος each single one was suspected, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 262; εἷς ὁστισοῦν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1325b28)]; εἷς ὁ πρῶτος, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (\{1st c.BC-1st c.AD\}: Germanicus Caesar Epigrammaticus)] der erste beste, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.33, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.9, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 61)]: alone, like our indefinite Article, a, an, Κάδμου θυγατέρων μιᾷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 917)]; εἷς κάπηλος, στρατηγός, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1292, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.50; εἷς Ἀθηναίων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.87, cf. LXX.Gen.21.15, NT.Matt.21.19, etc.)]; εἷς ἀπό.. [LXX (LXX.Lev.6.3(22).)]
i.5 οὐχ εἷς many, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 103, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 33)]; οὐχ εἷς οὐδὲ δύο not one or two only, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.12)]; οὐ μίαν οὐδὲ δύο not once nor twice, [LXX+2nd c.BC+ (LXX.4Ki.6.10; ἓν ἢ καὶ δύο ληφθὲν μαρτύριον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.38.10; εἷς ἢ δεύτερος 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 6.190d: proverbial, εἷς ἀνὴρ οὐδεὶς ἀνήρ)] one man's no man, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 48.10.)]
i.6 in Mathematics texts, τὸ ἕν unity, opposed to πλῆθος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus “fragment” 5, etc.: _plural_, ἕνα)]units, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1056b21; ὁ ἀριθμός ἐστιν ἕνα πλείω [prev. author] “Ph.” 207b7; τῶν προτέρων ἑνῶν 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 460.)]
i.7 Philos., ἕν, τό, unity, the One, ἐκ πάντων ἓν καὶ ἐξ ἑνὸς πάντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 10, compare 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 17.1, etc.)]: later indeclinable, ἓν εἶναι τοῦ ἓν παρουσίᾳ [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.6.14, compare 5.5.5.)]
(μίη only in late Ionic dialect Prose): genitive ἑνός, μιᾶς, ἑνός:—Epic dialect ἕεις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 145, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.341 (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus), conjecture in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.603)]:—Doric dialect ἧς [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Rhinthon Comicus 12, “Tab.Heracl.” 1.136)]:—Epic dialect, Aeolic dialect, and Ionic dialect feminine ἴᾰ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.354, probably in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.37; _accusative_ ἴαν 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 33.6 (probably), 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 69.1 (compare μηδεΐα), 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica “Supp.” 2.56, “IG” 9(2).517.22(Thess.); _genitive_ ἰῆς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.173, 24.496; _dative_ ἰῇ 9.319, 11.174, etc.)]: neuter dative (ἰῷ κίον ἤματι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (6.422. (In Comedy texts οὐδὲ (μηδὲ) εἷς, οὐδὲ (μηδὲ) ἕν, occur, mostly at the end of an iambic trimeter, without elision, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 302, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 927, “Pl.” 37, 138, +others))] (Orig. ἕνς, assim. ἔν (δ) probably in [Refs (“Leg.Gort.” 9.50, from *εμς,)] Indo-European sem-(compare ὁμός); μία from sm-ί; ἴα is not related to μία, but probably to pronominal stem i-(Latin is), compareἰός.)
1 as a Numeral, εἷς κοίρανος ἔστω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.204, etc.)]; strengthened, εἷς οἶος, μία οἴη, a single
A one, one alone,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (4.397, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.65; μία μούνη 23.227; εἷς μοῦνος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.119, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1053, etc.; εἷς καὶ μόνος 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.74; εἷς ὤν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 247, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 894, etc.; opposed to πολύς, μία τὰς πολλὰς ψυχὰς ὀλέσασα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1456, compare 1465, “Ch.” 299, etc.)]
b emphatically with a superlative, εἷς οἰωνὸς ἄριστος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.243, etc.: frequently in Trag., εἷς ἀνὴρ πλεῖστον..πόνον παρασχών 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 327; πλείστας ἀνὴρ εἷς.. ἔγημε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 460; κάλλιστ᾽ ἀνὴρ εἷς [prev. author] “OT” 1380; ἕνακριθέντ᾽ ἄριστον [prev. author] “Ph.” 1344)]; also in Prose, ἐπὶ πλεῖστον δὴ χλιδῆς εἷς ἀνὴρ ἀπίκετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.127, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.68; Μυτιληναίους μάλιστα δὴ μίαν πόλιν [prev. author] 3.39; πάντων εἷς ἀνὴρ μεγίστων αἴτιος κακῶν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.143)]: without a superlative, Ἐτεοκλέης ἂν εἷς πολὺς κατὰ πτόλιν ὑμνοῖθ᾽ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 6.)]
c in oppos., made emphatic by the Article, ὁ εἷς, ἡ μία, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.272, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.110, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 48a; τοῦ ἑνὸς οἱ δύο ἀγαθοὶ βελτίους 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287b13, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.22.)]
d with a negative, εἷς οὐδείς no single man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32; ἓν οὐδὲ ἓν ἴαμα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.51)]; οὐκ ἐν ἄλλῳ ἑνί γε χωρίῳ in no other single country, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.80)]; οὐχ εἷς, i.e. more than one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 103, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 96)]; εἷς οὐ.., εἷς μή.., emphatic for οὐδείς, μηδείς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 549, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.12)]; more emphatic, οὐδὲ εἷς, μηδὲ εἷς, see at {οὐδείς},{μηδείς}.
e εἷς ἕκαστος each one, each by himself, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 332c, etc.)]; αἴσθησις μία ἑνός (i.e. γένους) one of each, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1003b19: _plural_, ἑκάτεροι ἕνες “POxy.” 276.8 (1st c.AD).)]
f with κατά, καθ᾽ ἓν ἕκαστον each singly, piece by piece, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.9, etc.)]; καθ᾽ ἕν one by one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 217a, etc.)]; καθ᾽ ἕν, τό, list, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Elephantine Papyri 20.7 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]; καθ᾽ ἕν᾽ ἡμῶν ἕκαστον ἀποστερεῖν to deprive each of us singly, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.142, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 164, 186)]; εἷς κατὰ εἷς one by one, [NT (NT.Mark.14.19)]; but καθ᾽ ἓν γίγνεσθαι, εἶναι, to be united, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.46, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.16.)]
g with other Preps., ἓν ἀνθ᾽ ἑνός above all,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 331b, “Phlb.” 63c)]; but μίαν ἀντὶ μιᾶς alternately, [Refs (PStrassb. 25.13)], etc.; ἐπὶ μίαν ἑκάστην ῥάβδον τιθέντες θεσπίζουσι one by one, separately, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.67; ἐπὶ ἑνός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 157a; ἓν ἐφ᾽ ἑνί [prev. author] “Sph.” 229b, “Lg.” 758b: ἓν πρὸς ἕν, with or without συμβάλλειν, in comparisons, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.50, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 647b; πρὸς ἕν᾽ εἷς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.131: παρ᾽ ἕνα)]alternately, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 12; εἰς ἓν συναγαγεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1640; ἰσχὺς τοσαύτη εἰς ἓν ξυστᾶσα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.85; εἰς ἓν μοίρας συνέκυρσας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1172; ἐς μίαν βουλεύειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.379; in full, ἐς μίαν βουλήν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.111; εἰς μίαν νοεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 5.9; ἓν ἐξ ἑνὸς ἐπισεσώρευκεν 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.10.5, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Asin.” 54)]; ἀπὸ μιᾶς with one accord, [NT (NT.Luke.14.18; ὑφ᾽ ἕν)]at once, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 10.124; also ὑφ᾽ ἓν θέσθαι τὸ ὂν τῷ μὴ ὄντι 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.1)]; compare ὑφέν.
h in compound numerals, as an ordinal, τῷ ἑνὶ καὶ τριηκοστῷ [ἔτει] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.89, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.109, etc.)]; so in Attic dialect Inscrr., [Refs (“IG” 2.660.30, +others,: later εἷς)] alone,=first, [LXX (LXX.Gen.1.5; μιᾷ τοῦ μηνός [prev. work] 8.13.)]
i μίαν μίαν, ={κατὰ μίαν}, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 201; εἷς εἷς LXX.1Ch.24.6.)]
i.2 one, i.e. the same, τώ μοι μία γείνατο μήτηρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.238, etc.)]; εἷς καὶ ὁ αὐτός one and the same, ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸν ἀριθμῷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1039a28, etc.; ὑπὸ μίαν καὶ τὰν αὐτὰν ἀρχάν Perictione Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 3.1.121; ταὐτὸν καὶ ἕν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 201b3; so ἓν καὶ ὅμοιον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 271a; εἷς καὶ κοινός 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.699f: with _dative_, ἐμοὶ μιᾶς ἐγένετ᾽ ἐκ ματρός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 156; ἐκ μιᾶς οἰνοχόης Ἐπικούρῳ πεπωκότες 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1089a.)]
i.2.b possessing unity, ἧττον μία ἡ μίμησις ἡ τῶν ἐποποιῶν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1462b3; λίαν ἓν ποιεῖν τὴν πόλιν [prev. author] “Pol.” 1263b7; τὰ κυρίως ἕνα 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 437.)]
i.3 one, opposed to another, ἓν μὲν..ἓν δὲ.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1139a6, “Pol.” 1285b38, etc.; ὁ μὲν..εἷς δὲ..εἷς δ᾽ αὖ.. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.421 {εἷσα}, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 369d; εἷς μὲν..ἕτερος δὲ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.23.)]
i.4 indefinitely, εἷς τις some one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 118, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 471e, etc.; ἐξ ἑνός γέ του τρόπου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.34; rarely τις εἷς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 269, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 145d)]; εἷς γάρ τις ἦν ἕκαστος οὑξειργασμένος each single one was suspected, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 262; εἷς ὁστισοῦν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1325b28)]; εἷς ὁ πρῶτος, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (\{1st c.BC-1st c.AD\}: Germanicus Caesar Epigrammaticus)] der erste beste, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.33, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.9, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 61)]: alone, like our indefinite Article, a, an, Κάδμου θυγατέρων μιᾷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 917)]; εἷς κάπηλος, στρατηγός, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1292, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.50; εἷς Ἀθηναίων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.87, cf. LXX.Gen.21.15, NT.Matt.21.19, etc.)]; εἷς ἀπό.. [LXX (LXX.Lev.6.3(22).)]
i.5 οὐχ εἷς many, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 103, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 33)]; οὐχ εἷς οὐδὲ δύο not one or two only, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.12)]; οὐ μίαν οὐδὲ δύο not once nor twice, [LXX+2nd c.BC+ (LXX.4Ki.6.10; ἓν ἢ καὶ δύο ληφθὲν μαρτύριον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.38.10; εἷς ἢ δεύτερος 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 6.190d: proverbial, εἷς ἀνὴρ οὐδεὶς ἀνήρ)] one man's no man, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 48.10.)]
i.6 in Mathematics texts, τὸ ἕν unity, opposed to πλῆθος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus “fragment” 5, etc.: _plural_, ἕνα)]units, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1056b21; ὁ ἀριθμός ἐστιν ἕνα πλείω [prev. author] “Ph.” 207b7; τῶν προτέρων ἑνῶν 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 460.)]
i.7 Philos., ἕν, τό, unity, the One, ἐκ πάντων ἓν καὶ ἐξ ἑνὸς πάντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 10, compare 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 17.1, etc.)]: later indeclinable, ἓν εἶναι τοῦ ἓν παρουσίᾳ [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.6.14, compare 5.5.5.)]