GreekG1498Verb
εἴην
eiēn
“may be”
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G1498Strong's #
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Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
might (could, would, or should) be
optative (i.e. English subjunctive) present of G1510 (εἰμί) (including the other person);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
with various uses and significations, like the English verb to be.
I
As substantive verb.
1.Of persons and things, to be, exist
2.Of times, events, etc., to be, happen, take place
3.to be present, be in a place, have come
4.Impers., ἔστι, ἦν, etc.
(a)there is (Fr. il y a), was, etc.
(b)with inf., = *ἔξεστιν *(which see), it is possible
II
As copula uniting subject and predicate.
1.Expressing simply identity or equivalence
2.Explicative, as in parable, figure, type, etc.
3.C. genitive
4.C. dative (BL, §37, 3)
5.C. ptcp., as a periphrasis for the simple verb
(a)with ptcp. pf.
(b)with ptcp. pr. (esp. in impf., as in Heb. and Aram.; Dalman, Words, 35 f.)
(with)with ptcp. aor. (cl)
6.Seq. εἰς, a vernac. usage
7.C. adv.
8.Ellipses
(a)of the copula
(b)of the predicate
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εἴην appears 0 times in the New Testament.
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