ὦ

εἰμί,

with various uses and significations, like the English verb to be.

I. As substantive verb.

1. Of persons and things, to be, exist: ApG 17,28, Joh 1,1; 8,58; 17,5, al; ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν (for past ptcp.), Åb 1,4, 8; 4,8; 11,17; 16,5 (see Swete, Ap., 5; M, Pr., 228); τὰ (μὴ) ὄντα, Rom 4,17, 1 Kor 1,28.

2. Of times, events, etc., to be, happen, take place: Matt 24,3, Mark 14,2; 15,42, Luk 21,23, Joh 4,6, 23; 5,10, al.

3. to be present, be in a place, have come: Matt 2,13, 15, Mark 1,45; 5,21; 15,40, Luk 1,80; 5,29, Joh 7,30, al.; before εἰς, Mark 2,1 before ἐκ, (ἐξ), Matt 1,20; 21,25, Mark 11,30, Joh 3,31, al.

4. Impers., ἔστι, ἦν, etc.;

(a) there is (Fr. il y a), was, etc.: Matt 16,28, Luk 16,19, Joh 3,1; 5,2, Rom 3,10, al.; with dative (of the possessor; Bl., §37, 3), Matt 16,22, Luk 1,7, Joh 18,10, Rom 9,2, al.; ἔστιν ὅς, ὅστις (chiefly in pl), Matt 16,28; 19,2, Mark 9,1, al.;

(b) with inf., = ἔξεστιν (which see), it is possible: Hebr 9,5, 1 Kor 11,20, RV (but see ICC, in l.).

II. As copula uniting subject and predicate.

1. Expressing simply identity or equivalence: Matt 5,13; 14,15, Luk 1,18, 19, Joh 1,1; 4,19, Åb 3,9, al. mult.

2. Explicative, as in parable, figure, type, etc.: Matt 13,19, 1 Kor 9,2; 10,4; 11,25, Gal 4,24, Åb 17,15, al.; ταῦτ᾽ ἔστιν, Matt 27,46, Mark 7,2, Rom 7,18 al.; ὅ ἐστιν, Mark 3,17, Kol 1,24, Hebr 7,2, al.; akin to this is the sacramental usage: Matt 26,26-28, Mark 14,22, 24, Luk 22,19, 1 Kor 11,24 (see ICC on Mk, I Co, ll. with; DB, iii, 148 f.).

3. C. genitive: qual., etc., Mark 5,42, Luk 3,23, 1 Kor 14,33, Hebr 12,11, al.; part., 1 Tim 1,20, 2 Tim 1,15; poss., Matt 5,3, 10, Mark 12,7, Luk 4,7; of service or partisanship, Rom 8,9, 1 Kor 1,12, 2 Kor 10,7, 2 Tim 2,19.

4. C. dative (BL, §37, 3): ApG 1,8; 9,15, Rom 4,12, 1 Kor 1,18; 2,14, Åb 21,7, al.

5. C. ptcp., as a periphrasis for the simple verb (Bl., §62, 1, 2; M, Pr., 225 ff.);

(a) with ptcp. pf. (cl.): Matt 10,30, Luk 9,32, Joh 3,24, ApG 21,35, 1 Kor 15,19, al;

(b) with ptcp. pr. (esp. in impf., as in Heb. and Aram.; Dalman, Words, 35 f.), Matt 7,29, Mark 1,22, Luk 4,31; 14,1, ApG 1,10, al. mult., id. for imper. (M, Pr., 180f., 182f.), with ellipsis of εἰμί, Rom 12,9, 10, Hebr 13,5, al.;

(with) with ptcp. aor. (cl), Luk 23,9,

6. Seq. εἰς (cf. Heb. הָיָה לְ), a vernac. usage (M, Pr., 71): Matt 19,5, Mark 10,8, Hebr 8,10, al.

7. C. adv.: Matt 19,20, Mark 4,26, Luk 18,11, al.

8. Ellipses;

(a) of the copula (Bl., §30, 3): Matt 8,29; 24,32, Joh 21,22, 23, Hebr 6,4, al.;

(b) of the predicate: ἐγώ εἰμί, Matt 14,27, Mark 6,50, al.; absol. (cf. 5 Mos 32,39 אֲנִי הוּא), Mark 13,6, Joh 4,26, al. (cf. ἄπ-, ἔν-, πάρ-, συμ-πάρ-, σύν-ειμι).