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Lexicon :: Strong's G1437 - ean

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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 59 times in 54 verses in 'Jhn' in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Jhn 3:2–Jhn 19:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:2 - came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:3 - Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:5 - Jesus answered, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:12 - If I have told you people about earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:27 - John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:48 - So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:19 - So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:31 - "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:43 - I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:44 - No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:51 - I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:53 - Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:62 - Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:65 - So Jesus added, "Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:17 - If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:37 - On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:51 - "Our law doesn't condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:16 - But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:24 - Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:31 - Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:36 - So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:51 - I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:52 - Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:54 - Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:22 - (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:31 - We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:9 - I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:9 - Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:10 - But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:40 - Jesus responded, "Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:48 - If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:57 - (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:24 - I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:26 - If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:32 - And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:47 - If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:8 - Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus replied, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:17 - If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:35 - Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples - if you have love for one another."
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:3 - And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:14 - If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:15 - "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:23 - Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:4 - Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:6 - If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:7 - If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:10 - If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:14 - You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:7 - But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:12 - From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!"

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