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ἐάν
Transliteration
ean (Key)
Pronunciation
eh-an'
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Part of Speech
conjunction
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

ἐάν eán, eh-an'; from G1487 and G302; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.; often used in connection with other particles to denote indefiniteness or uncertainty:—before, but, except, (and) if, (if) so, (what-, whither-)soever, though, when (-soever), whether (or), to whom, (who-)so(-ever). See G3361.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x

The KJV translates Strong's G1437 in the following manner: if (200x), whosoever (with G3769) (14x), whatsoever (with G3739) (16x), though (14x), miscellaneous (32x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 276x
The KJV translates Strong's G1437 in the following manner: if (200x), whosoever (with G3769) (14x), whatsoever (with G3739) (16x), though (14x), miscellaneous (32x).
  1. if, in case

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐάν eán, eh-an'; from G1487 and G302; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.; often used in connection with other particles to denote indefiniteness or uncertainty:—before, but, except, (and) if, (if) so, (what-, whither-)soever, though, when (-soever), whether (or), to whom, (who-)so(-ever). See G3361.
STRONGS G1437:
ἐάν;
I. a conditional particle (derived from εἰ ἄν), which makes reference to time and to experience, introducing something future, but not determining, before the event, whether it is certainly to take place; if, in case, (Latin si; German wenn; im Fall, dass; falls; wofern); cf., among others, Hermann ad Viger., p. 832; Klotz ad Devar. ii. 2, p. 450ff; Winers Grammar, 291f (273f). It is connected:
1. with the subjunctive, according to the regular usage of the more ancient and elegant classic writers.
a. with the subjunctive present: Matthew 6:22 (ἐὰν οὖν ὀφθαλμός σου ἁπλοῦς , if it be the case, as to which I do not know, that thine eye etc.); Matthew 6:23; Matthew 17:20; Luke 10:6; John 7:17; John 8:54 [R G L marginal reading]; John 9:31; 11:9,10; Acts 5:38; Acts 13:41; Romans 2:25; 1 Corinthians 9:16; Galatians 5:2; 1 Timothy 1:8 [not Lachmann]; Hebrews 13:23; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:3, 15 etc.
b. with the subjunctive aorist, corresponding to the Latin future perfect: Matthew 4:9 (ἐὰν προσκυνήσῃς μοι, if thou shalt have worshipped me); Matthew 5:46; Matthew 9:21; Mark 3:24; Mark 9:50; Luke 14:34; Luke 17:4; Luke 20:28; John 5:43; John 11:57; Romans 7:2; Romans 10:9; 1 Corinthians 7:8, 39; 1 Corinthians 8:10; 1 Corinthians 16:10 (ἐὰν ἔλθῃ Τιμόθεος; for although he was already on his way to Corinth, yet some hindrance might still prevent his arriving); 2 Corinthians 9:4; Galatians 6:1; James 2:2; 1 John 5:16 [Lachmann present]; Revelation 3:20, and often; also in the oratio obliqua, where the better Greek writers use the optative: John 9:22; John 11:57; Acts 9:2 (Winers Grammar, 294 (276); [cf. Buttmann, 224 (193)]). The difference between the present and the aorist may be seen especially from the following passages: 2 Timothy 2:5 ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ἀθλῇ τις, οὐ στεφανοῦται, ἐὰν μὴ νομίμως ἀθλήσῃ, 1 Corinthians 14:23 ἐὰν οὖν συνέλθῃ ἐκκλησία... καὶ πάντες γλώσσαις λαλῶσιν, εἰσέλθωσι δὲ ἰδιῶται ἀπιστοι, 1 Corinthians 14:24 ἐὰν δὲ πάντες προφητεύωσιν, εἰσέλθῃ δέ τις ἄπιστος, Matthew 21:21 ἐὰν ἔχητε πίστιν καὶ μὴ διακριθῆτε. Also εἰ ("quod per se nihil significat praeter conditionem," Klotz, the passage cited, p. 455) and ἐάν are distinguished in propositions subjoined the one to the other [Winer's Grammar, 296 (277f)]: John 13:17 εἰ ταῦτα οἴδατε, μακάριοί ἐστε, ἐὰν ποιῆτε αὐτά, John 3:12; 1 Corinthians 7:36; in statements antithetic, Acts 5:38f; or parallel, Mark 3:24-26. Finally, where one of the evangelists uses εἰ, another has ἐάν, but so that each particle retains its own force, inasmuch as one and the same thing is differently conceived of by the different minds: Mark 9:43 ἐὰν σκανδαλίζῃ [-λίσῃ L marginal reading T WH text] χείρ σου, and Mark 9:47 ἐὰν ὀφθαλμός σου σκανδαλίζῃ σε, i. e. if so be that, etc.; on the other hand, Matthew, in Matthew 18:8f and Matthew 5:29f concerning the same thing says εἰ.
c. irregularly, but to be explained as an imitation of the Hebrew אִם which is also a particle of time (cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, under the word, 4), ἐάν with the subjunctive aorist is used of things which the speaker or writer thinks will certainly take place, where ὅταν, when, whenever, should have been used: ἐὰν ὑψωθῶ, John 12:32; ἐὰν πορευθῶ, John 14:3; ἐὰν φανερωθῇ, 1 John 2:28 (L T Tr WH, for ὅταν R G); 1 John 3:2; ἐὰν ἀκούσητε, Hebrews 3:7 from Psalm 94:8 (Ps. 95:8); (ἐὰν εἰσέλθῃς εἰς τὸν νυμφῶνα, Tobit 6:17 (Tobit 6:16) [others, ὅταν]; ἐὰν ἀποθάνω, θάψον με, Tobit 4:3, cf. Tobit 4:4 ὅταν ἀποθάνῃ, θάψον αὐτήν; for אִם when, Isaiah 24:13; Amos 7:2).
d. sometimes when the particle is used with the subjunctive aorist the futurity of a thing is not so much affirmed as imagined, it being known to be something which never could happen: ἐὰν εἴπῃ ποῦς, if the foot should say, or were to say, 1 Corinthians 12:15; ἐὰν ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς γλώσσαις λαλῶν, 1 Corinthians 14:6.
2. By a somewhat negligent use, met with from the time of Aristotle on, ἐάν is connected also with the indicative [cf. Klotz, the passage cited, p. 468ff; Kühner, § 575 Anm. 5; Winers Grammar, 295 (277); Buttmann, 221f (191f); Tdf. Proleg., p. 124f; WHs Appendix, p. 171; Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word; Vincent and Dickson, Modern Greek, 2nd edition, Appendix, § 77]; and
a. with the future indicative, in meaning akin, as is well known, to the subjunctive: [ἐὰν δύο συμφωνήσουσιν, Matthew 18:19 T Tr]; ἐὰν οὗτοι σιωπήσουσι, Luke 19:40 L T Tr WH; ἐὰν... ὁδηγήσει, Acts 8:31 T Tr WH, (ἐὰν βεβηλώσουσιν αὐτά, Leviticus 22:9); but also
b. with the present indicative: ἐὰν δανείζετε, Luke 6:34 L marginal reading Tr text; ἐὰν στήκετε, 1 Thessalonians 3:8 T Tr text WH; ἐάν τε ἀποθνήσκομεν, Romans 14:8 Lachmann with an preterite indicative, but one having the force of a present: ἐὰν [Lachmann ἂν] οἴδαμεν, 1 John 5:15 without variant.
3. ἐάν joined with other particles;
a. ἐὰν δὲ καί, but if also, but even if, [A. V. but and if (retained by R. V. in 1 Cor.)]; with the subjunctive: Matthew 18:17; 1 Corinthians 7:11, 28; 2 Timothy 2:5.
b. ἐὰν καί: Galatians 6:1.
c. ἐὰν μή, if not, unless, except; with the subjunctive present: Matthew 10:13; Luke 13:3 [Lachmann text aorist]; Acts 15:1 [Rec.]; 1 Corinthians 8:8; 1 Corinthians 9:16 [R G L marginal reading T WH marginal reading]; James 2:17; 1 John 3:21; with the subjunctive aorist: Matthew 6:15; Matthew 18:35; Mark 3:27; John 3:3; John 8:24; 1 Corinthians 14:6f, 9; Romans 10:15; [Romans 11:23 R L]; 2 Timothy 2:5; Revelation 2:5, 22 [R L], and often with the indicative present: ἐὰν μὴ πιστεύετε, John 10:38 Tdf. In some passages, although the particles ἐὰν μή retain their native force of unless, if not, yet, so far as the sense is concerned, one may translate them, but that, without: Matthew 26:42 (the cup cannot pass by without my drinking. it); οὐ γάρ ἐστιν κρυπτόν, ἐὰν μή φανερωθῇ (Treg.), there is nothing hid, but that it shall be made manifest (properly, nothing whatever is hid, except that it should be made manifest), Mark 4:22; οὐδείς ἐστιν, ὃς ἀφῆκεν οἰκίαν... ἐὰν μὴ λάβῃ, but that shall receive (properly, unless he shall receive... it cannot be said that anyone has left), Mark 10:29, 30; [cf. Buttmann, § 149, 6. On the supposed use of ἐὰν μή (εἰ μή) as equivalent to ἀλλά, cf. Meyer on Matthew 12:4; Galatians 1:7; Galatians 2:16; Fritzsche on Romans 14:14 at the end; Ellicott and Lightfoot on Galatians, at the passages cited. See εἰ, III. 8 c. β.]
d. ἐάνπερ [L Tr separately, ἐάν περ] if only, if indeed: Hebrews 3:6 (where L brackets περ, and T Tr WH read ἐάν), Hebrews 3:14; Hebrews 6:3; it occurs neither in the Sept. nor in the O. T. Apocrypha; on its use in Greek writings cf. Klotz, the passage cited, p. 483f.
e. ἐάν τε... ἐάν τε, sive... sive, whether... or: Romans 14:8; (often in Sept. for אִם... אִם, as Exodus 19:13; Leviticus 3:1; Deuteronomy 18:3). Cf. Klotz, the passage cited, p. 479f; Kühner, § 541; [Buttmann, 221 (191)].
f. κἄν for καὶ ἐάν, see κἄν.
II. The classic use of the conditional particle ἐάν also in the contracted form ἄν (see p. 34b above) seems to have led the biblical writers of both Testaments to connect ἐάν, with relative pronouns and adverbs instead of the potential particle ἄν, as ὃς ἐάν [so Tdf. in 12 places], ἐάν [so Tdf. uniformly], etc. (this use among secular writings is very doubtful, cf. Winers Grammar, p. 310 (291); Buttmann, 72 (63)): Matthew 5:19; Matthew 10:14 [R G]; Matt 15:5; Mark 6:22; Luke 9:48 [WH ἄν]; Luke 17:33; Acts 7:7 [R G T]; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Ephesians 6:8 [R G L text]; 3 John 1:5, etc.; ὅπου ἐάν, Matthew 8:19; Matthew 26:13; Mark 6:10 [L Tr ἄν]. ὁσάκις ἐάν, Revelation 11:6. οὗ ἐάν, 1 Corinthians 16:6 (1 Macc. 6:36). καθὸ ἐάν, 2 Corinthians 8:12 [Tdf. ἄν; ὅστις ἐάν, Galatians 5:10 T Tr WH; ἥτις ἐάν, Acts 3:23 Tdf. For many other examples see Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, ἐάν, 3.] In many places the manuscripts vary between ἐάν and ἄν; cf. ἄν, II., p. 34; [and especially Tdf. Proleg., p. 96].

Related entry:
ἐάνπερ, see ἐάν, I. 3 d.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
19:13
Leviticus
3:1; 22:9
Deuteronomy
18:3
Psalms
94:8; 95:8
Isaiah
24:13
Amos
7:2
Matthew
4:9; 5:19; 5:29; 5:46; 6:15; 6:22; 6:23; 8:19; 9:21; 10:13; 10:14; 12:4; 15:5; 17:20; 18:8; 18:17; 18:19; 18:35; 21:21; 26:13; 26:42
Mark
3:24; 3:24; 3:25; 3:26; 3:27; 4:22; 6:10; 6:22; 9:43; 9:47; 9:50; 10:29; 10:30
Luke
6:34; 9:48; 10:6; 13:3; 14:34; 17:4; 17:33; 19:40; 20:28
John
3:3; 3:12; 5:43; 7:17; 8:24; 8:54; 9:22; 9:31; 10:38; 11:9; 11:10; 11:57; 11:57; 12:32; 13:17; 14:3
Acts
3:23; 5:38; 5:38; 7:7; 8:31; 9:2; 13:41; 15:1
Romans
2:25; 7:2; 10:9; 10:15; 11:23; 14:8; 14:8; 14:14
1 Corinthians
6:18; 7:8; 7:11; 7:28; 7:36; 7:39; 8:8; 8:10; 9:16; 9:16; 12:15; 14:6; 14:6; 14:9; 14:23; 14:24; 16:6; 16:10
2 Corinthians
8:12; 9:4
Galatians
1:7; 2:16; 5:2; 5:10; 6:1; 6:1
Ephesians
6:8
1 Thessalonians
3:8
1 Timothy
1:8
2 Timothy
2:5; 2:5; 2:5
Hebrews
3:6; 3:7; 3:14; 6:3; 13:23
James
2:2; 2:17
1 John
1:9; 2:3; 2:15; 2:28; 3:2; 3:21; 5:15; 5:16
3 John
1:5
Revelation
2:5; 2:22; 3:20; 11:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1437 matches the Greek ἐάν (ean),
which occurs 335 times in 305 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Mat 4:9–Mat 21:26)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:9 - and saith to him, 'All these to thee I will give, if falling down thou mayest bow to me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:13 - 'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:19 - 'Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands -- the least -- and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:20 - 'For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:23 - 'If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:32 - but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:46 - 'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:47 - and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:14 - 'For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you -- your Father who is in the heavens;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:15 - but if ye may not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:22 - 'The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:23 - but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:9 - 'Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:10 - and if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:2 - and lo, a leper having come, was bowing to him, saying, 'Sir, if thou art willing, thou art able to cleanse me;'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:19 - and a certain scribe having come, said to him, 'Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go;'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:21 - for she said within herself, 'If only I may touch his garment, I shall be saved.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:13 - and if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; and if it be not worthy, let your peace turn back to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:14 - 'And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:42 - and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:6 - and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:27 - 'All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:11 - And he said to them, 'What man shall be of you, who shall have one sheep, and if this may fall on the sabbaths into a ditch, will not lay hold on it and raise it?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:29 - 'Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:36 - 'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:7 - whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:5 - but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering is whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:14 - let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:19 - and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:26 - for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 17:20 - And Jesus said to them, 'Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:3 - and said, 'Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:5 - 'And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:12 - 'What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:13 - and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:15 - 'And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:16 - and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:17 - 'And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:18 - 'Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:19 - 'Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask -- it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:35 - so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:4 - and to these he said, Go ye -- also ye -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:7 - they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye -- ye also -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:26 - but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:27 - and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:3 - and if any one may say anything to you, ye shall say, that the lord hath need of them, and immediately he will send them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:21 - And Jesus answering said to them, 'Verily I say to you, If ye may have faith, and may not doubt, not only this of the fig-tree shall ye do, but even if to this mount ye may say, Be lifted up and be cast into the sea, it shall come to pass;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:24 - And Jesus answering said to them, 'I will ask you -- I also -- one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:25 - the baptism of John, whence was it? -- from heaven, or from men? ' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, 'If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:26 - and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'

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