εἰμίeimí

to be; I. εἰμί has the force of a predicate [i. e. is the substantive verb]: to be, i. c. 1. to exist; a. passages in which the idea of the verb preponderates, and some person or thing is said to exist by way of distinction from things non-existent: ἔστιν ὁ θεός, Heb. xi. 6; ὁ ὤν καὶ ὁ ἦν [W. 68 (66), cf. 182 (172); B. 50 (43)], Rev. i. 4, [8; iv. 8]; xi. 17; xvi. 5; ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, Jn. i. 1; πρὶν Ἀβραὰμ γενέσθαι, ἐγώ εἰμι, Jn. viii. 58 [so WH mrg. in 24, 28; xiii. 19 (see II. 5 below)]; πρὸ τοῦ τὸν κόσμον εἶναι, Jn. xvii. 5; ἦν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι καίπερ ἐστίν Rec., acc. to the better reading καὶ πάρεσται [G Tr WH, but L T παρέσται, correctly; cf. Bttm. Ausf. Spr. § 108 Anm. 20; Chandler § 803], Rev. xvii. 8; ἑσμέν, Acts xxii. 28; τὰ μὴ ὄντα and τὰ ὄντα things that are not, things that are, Ro. iv. 17; things that have some or have no influence, of some or of no account, 1 Co. i. 28, (ἐκάλεσεν ἡμᾶς οὐκ ὄντας καὶ ἠθέλησεν εἰ μὴ ὄντος εἶναι ἡμᾶς, Clem. Rom. 2 Cor. i. 8 [cf. Gebh. and Harn. ad loc. and esp. on Herm. vis. 1, 1, 6]). Hence b. i. q. to live: εἰ ἦμεθα [or ἦμεν Rec.] ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν if we had been (viz. living) in the days of our fathers, Mt. xxiii. 30; οὐκ εἶναι is used (as in class. Grk., cf. Passow i. p. 792, [L. and S. s. v. A. I. 1]) of the dead [who are not, are no more]; Mt. ii. 18. c. i. q. to stay, remain, be in a place: Mt. ii. 13, 15; Mk. i. 45 [L WH br. ἦν]; v. 21; Lk. i. 80; see V. 4 below. d. i. q. …