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Lexicon :: Strong's G2228 - ē

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ἤ
Transliteration
ē (Key)
Pronunciation
ay
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Part of Speech
particle
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms
mGNT
343x in 2 unique form(s) TR
357x in 6 unique form(s) LXX
775x in 3 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἤ ḗ, ay; a primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than:—and, but (either), (n-)either, except it be, (n-)or (else), rather, save, than, that, what, yea. Often used in connection with other particles. Compare especially G2235, G2260, G2273.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 357x

The KJV translates Strong's G2228 in the following manner: or (260x), than (38x), either (8x), or else (5x), nor (5x), not translated (21x), miscellaneous (20x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 357x
The KJV translates Strong's G2228 in the following manner: or (260x), than (38x), either (8x), or else (5x), nor (5x), not translated (21x), miscellaneous (20x).

  1. either, or, than

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἤ ḗ, ay; a primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than:—and, but (either), (n-)either, except it be, (n-)or (else), rather, save, than, that, what, yea. Often used in connection with other particles. Compare especially G2235, G2260, G2273.
STRONGS G2228:
ἤ, a disjunctive conjunction (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 53, 6). Used
1. to distinguish things or thoughts which either mutually exclude each other, or one of which can take the place of the other: or (Latin aut, vel);
a. to distinguish one thing from another in words of the same construction: Matthew 5:17 (τόν νόμον ἤ τούς προφήτας), Matthew 5:36 (λευκήν ἤ μέλαιναν); Matthew 6:31; Matthew 7:16; Mark 6:56; Mark 7:11; Luke 2:24; Luke 9:25; John 7:48; John 13:29; Acts 1:7; Acts 3:12; Acts 4:7; Romans 1:21; Romans 3:1; 1 Corinthians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 10:19; Galatians 1:10, etc.
b. after an interrogative or a declarative sentence, before a question designed to prove the same thing in another way: Matthew 7:4, 9; Matthew 12:29; Matthew 16:26; Matthew 26:53; Mark 8:37; Luke 13:4; Luke 14:31; Luke 15:8; Romans 9:21; Romans 14:10; 1 Corinthians 6:16.
c. before a sentence contrary to the one just preceding, to indicate that if one be denied or refuted the other must stand: Matthew 20:15 (i. e. or, if thou wilt not grant this, is thine eye etc.); Romans 3:29; 1 Corinthians 9:6; 1 Corinthians 10:22; 1 Corinthians 11:14 (Rec.); 1 Corinthians 14:36; 2 Corinthians 11:7; ἤ ἀγνοεῖτε etc., Romans 6:3; Romans 7:1 (cf. Romans 6:14); ἤ οὐκ ὀικατε etc., Romans 11:2; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 16, 19.
d. ἤ... ἤ, either... or, Matthew 6:24; Matthew 12:33; Luke 16:13; Acts 24:20; 1 Corinthians 14:6.
2. in a disjunctive question it corresponds to the Latin an after utrum;
a. preceded by πότερον, John 7:17; cf. Klotz ad Dev. 2:2, p. 574f; preceded by the interrogative μή, 1 Corinthians 9:8; preceded by μήτι, 2 Corinthians 1:17.
b. without an intertog. particle in the first member of the interrogation: τί ἐστι εὐκοπώτερον, εἰπεῖν... ἤ εἰπεῖν, Matthew 9:5; Mark 2:9; Luke 5:23; add, Matthew 21:25; Matthew 23:17, 19; Matthew 27:17; Mark 3:4; Luke 7:19; Acts 8:34.
c. ἤ... ἤ... ἤ, Mark 13:35.
3. as a comparative conjunction, than;
a. after comparatives: Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:22; Luke 9:13; Luke 16:17; John 3:19; John 4:1 (Tr marginal reading omits; WH brackets ἤ); Acts 4:19; Romans 13:11, and often. ἤ is lacking after πλείους followed by a noun of number: Matthew 26:53 T Tr WH; Acts 4:22; Acts 23:13, 21; Acts 24:11 (where Rec. adds ἤ); cf. Matthiae, § 455 note 4; Kühner, ii., p. 847; (Jelf, § 780 Obs. 1); Winers Grammar, 595 (554); (Buttmann, 168 (146)); Lob. ad Phryn., p. 410f.
b. after ἕτερον: Acts 17:21.
c. πρίν ἤ, before that, before, followed by accusative with an infinitive (cf. Buttmann, § 139, 35; Winer's Grammar, § 44, 6, also, p. 297 (279)): Matthew 1:18; Mark 14:30; Acts 2:20 R G WH marginal reading; Acts 7:2; followed by the aorist subjunc, Luke 2:26 Tr text omits; WH brackets ἤ; Luke 22:34 R G (others ἕως); followed by present optative, Acts 25:16.
d. after θέλω equivalent to to prefer: 1 Corinthians 14:19 (followed by ἤπερ, 2 Macc. 14:42); examples from Greek authors are given in Klotz ad Devar. 2:2, p. 589f; Winers Grammar, § 35, 2 c.; (Buttmann, § 149, 7); Kühner, ii., p. 841; (Jelf, § 779 Obs. 3).
e. after οὐ: John 13:10 R G, where after οὐ χρείαν ἔχει the sentence goes on as though the writer had said οὐκ ἄλλου τίνος χρείαν ἔχει, (cf. Winers Grammar, 508 (478)).
f. after positive notions, to which in this way a comparative force is given: after καλόν ἐστι (it is good... rather than) equivalent to it is better, Matthew 18:8; Mark 9:43, 45, 47; cf. Menander's saying καλόν τό μή ζῆν, ἤ ζῆν ἀθλιως, and Plautus rud. 4, 4, 70 tacita mulier est bona semper, quam loquens; similar examples in the O. T. are Genesis 49:12; Psalm 117:8 (Ps. 118:8); Jonah 4:3, 8; Tobit 6:13 Tobit 12:8; Sir. 20:25 Sir. 22:15; 4 Macc. 9:1; also after λυσιτελεῖ (it is gain... rather than) equivalent to it is better (Tobit 3:6), Luke 17:2; after χαρά ἐστι (there will be joy... more than), Luke 15:7; see examples from Greek authors in Alexander Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 149, 7; (Buttmann, p. 360 (309)); Winer, Kühner, others, as above.
4. with other particles;
a. ἀλλ' ἤ, see ἀλλά, I. 10, p. 28a.
b. ἤ γάρ, see γάρ, I. at the end
c. ἤ καί (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 53, 6 note),
α. or even, or also (Latin aut etiam, vel etiam): (Matthew 7:10 L T Tr WH); Luke 11:11 G L T Tr WH; Luke 11:12; Luke 18:11; Romans 2:15; 1 Corinthians 16:6; 2 Corinthians 1:13.
β. or also (Latin an etiam) (in a disjunctive question): Luke 12:41; Romans 4:9.
d. ἤπερ, than at all (Latin quam forte; German als etwa), after a comparitive (cf. Jelf, § 779 Obs. 5): John 12:43 (L ἤ περ, WH marginal reading ὑπέρ) (2 Macc. 14:42; Homer, Hesiod).
e. ἤτοι... ἤ, either indeed (cf. Kühner, § 540, 5)... or: Romans 6:16 (Wis. 11:19; Herodotus and following).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
49:12
Psalms
118:8
Jonah
4:3; 4:8
Matthew
1:18; 5:17; 5:36; 6:24; 6:31; 7:4; 7:9; 7:10; 7:16; 9:5; 10:15; 11:22; 12:29; 12:33; 16:26; 18:8; 20:15; 21:25; 23:17; 23:19; 26:53; 26:53; 27:17
Mark
2:9; 3:4; 6:56; 7:11; 8:37; 9:43; 9:45; 9:47; 13:35; 14:30
Luke
2:24; 2:26; 5:23; 7:19; 9:13; 9:25; 11:11; 11:12; 12:41; 13:4; 14:31; 15:7; 15:8; 16:13; 16:17; 17:2; 18:11; 22:34
John
3:19; 4:1; 7:17; 7:48; 12:43; 13:10; 13:29
Acts
1:7; 2:20; 3:12; 4:7; 4:19; 4:22; 7:2; 8:34; 17:21; 23:13; 23:21; 24:11; 24:20; 25:16
Romans
1:21; 2:15; 3:1; 3:29; 4:9; 6:3; 6:14; 6:16; 7:1; 9:21; 11:2; 13:11; 14:10
1 Corinthians
4:3; 5:10; 6:9; 6:16; 6:16; 6:19; 9:6; 9:8; 10:19; 10:22; 11:14; 14:6; 14:19; 14:36; 16:6
2 Corinthians
1:13; 1:17; 11:7
Galatians
1:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2228 matches the Greek ἤ (ē),
which occurs 343 times in 275 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 4 / 6 (Act 28:6–1Co 11:22)

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:6 - But they were waiting for him to soon swell up or G2228 suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, changing their minds, they began to say that he was a god.

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And it happened that after three days [fn]Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or G2228 the customs of our [fn]fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:21 - And they said to him, “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers come here and reported or G2228 spoken anything bad about you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:21 - For even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or G2228 give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:4 - Or G2228 do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:15 - in that they demonstrate the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or G2228 else defending them,

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Then what advantage has the Jew? Or G2228 what is the value of circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:29 - Or G2228 is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

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Therefore, is this blessing on [fn]the circumcised, or G2228 on [fn]the uncircumcised also? For we say, “FAITH WAS COUNTED TO ABRAHAM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:10 - How then was it counted? While he was [fn]circumcised, or G2228 [fn]uncircumcised? Not while [fn]circumcised, but while [fn]uncircumcised;

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For the promise to Abraham or G2228 to his seed that he would be heir of the world was not [fn]through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:3 - Or G2228 do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:16 - Do you not know that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin [fn]leading to death, or G2228 of obedience [fn]leading to righteousness?

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Or G2228 do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is master over a person as long as he lives?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:35 - Who will separate us from the love of [fn]Christ? Will affliction, or G2228 turmoil, or G2228 persecution, or G2228 famine, or G2228 nakedness, or G2228 peril, or G2228 sword?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:11 - for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or G2228 bad, so that the purpose of God according to His choice would [fn]stand, not [fn]because of works but [fn]because of Him who calls,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:21 - Or G2228 does not the potter have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel [fn]for honorable use and another [fn]for dishonorable use?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:7 - or G2228 ‘WHO WILL GO DOWN INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:2 - [fn]GOD HAS NOT REJECTED HIS PEOPLE whom He foreknew. Or G2228 do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:34 - For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR G2228 WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:35 - Or G2228 WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM [fn]THAT IT MIGHT BE REPAID TO HIM?

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And do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now [fn]salvation is nearer to us than G2228 when we believed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:4 - Who are you to judge the [fn]servant of another? To his own [fn]master he stands or G2228 falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

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But you, why do you judge your brother? Or G2228 you again, why do you view your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

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Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather judge this—not to put a stumbling block or G2228 offense before a brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:13 - [fn]Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or G2228 were you baptized [fn]in the name of Paul?

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And when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with superiority of word or G2228 of wisdom, proclaiming to you the [fn]witness of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:3 - But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or G2228 by any human [fn]court. In fact, I do not even examine myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:21 - What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or G2228 with love and a spirit of gentleness?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:10 - I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or G2228 with the greedy and swindlers, or G2228 with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:11 - But now I am writing to you not to associate [fn]with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or G2228 greedy, or G2228 an idolater, or G2228 a reviler, or G2228 a drunkard, or G2228 a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:2 - Or G2228 do you not know that the [fn]saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not worthy to [fn]constitute the smallest law courts?

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Or G2228 do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [fn]effeminate, nor homosexuals,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:16 - Or G2228 do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:19 - Or G2228 do you not know that your body is a [fn]sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from [fn]God, and that you are not your own?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:9 - But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than G2228 to burn with passion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:11 - (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or G2228 else G2228 be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not [fn]divorce his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:15 - Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave. The brother or G2228 the sister is not enslaved in such cases, but God has called [fn]us [fn]to peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:16 - For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or G2228 how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:6 - Or G2228 do only [fn]Barnabas and I not have authority to refrain from working?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:7 - Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not [fn]consume the fruit of it? Or G2228 who shepherds a flock and does not [fn]consume the milk of the flock?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:8 -

Am I speaking these things according to [fn]human judgment? Or G2228 does not the Law also say these things?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:10 - Or G2228 is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

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But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case, for it would be better for me to die than G2228 have anyone make my boast an empty one.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:19 - What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or G2228 that an idol is anything?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:22 - Or G2228 do we PROVOKE THE [fn]LORD TO JEALOUSY? Are we stronger than He?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:4 - Every man who has something on his head while praying or G2228 prophesying, shames his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:5 - But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or G2228 prophesying, shames her head, for she is one and the same as the woman [fn]whose head is shaved.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:6 - For if a woman does not cover [fn]her head, let her also [fn]have her hair cut short. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to [fn]have her hair cut short or G2228 [fn]her head shaved, let her cover [fn]her head.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:22 - For do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or G2228 do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you.

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