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ἄν
Transliteration
an (Key)
Pronunciation
an
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Part of Speech
particle
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary particle
mGNT
166x in 2 unique form(s)
TR
191x in 2 unique form(s)
LXX
537x in 2 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

ἄν án, an; a primary particle, denoting a supposition, wish, possibility or uncertainty:—(what-, where-, wither-, who-)soever. Usually unexpressed except by the subjunctive or potential mood. Also contracted for G1437.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 190x
KJV Translation Count — Total: 190x
  1. has no exact English equivalent, see definitions under AV

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄν án, an; a primary particle, denoting a supposition, wish, possibility or uncertainty:—(what-, where-, wither-, who-)soever. Usually unexpressed except by the subjunctive or potential mood. Also contracted for G1437.
STRONGS G302:
ἄν, a particle indicating that something can or could occur on certain conditions, or by the combination of certain fortuitous causes. In Latin it has no equivalent; nor do the English haply, perchance, German wohl (wol), etwa, exactly and everywhere correspond to it. The use of this particle in the N. T., illustrated by copious examples from Greek writers, is shown by Winers Grammar, § 42; [cf. Buttmann, 216ff (186ff). Its use in classic Greek is fully exhibited (by Prof. Goodwin) in Liddell and Scott, under the word].
It is joined:
I. in the apodoses of hypothetical sentences
1. with the imperfect, where the Latin uses the imperfect subjunctive, e. g. Luke 7:39 (ἐγίνωσκεν ἄν, sciret, he would know); Luke 17:6 (ἐλέγετε ἄν ye would say); Matthew 23:30 (non essemus, we should not have been); John 5:46; John 8:42; John 9:41; John 15:19; John 18:36; 1 Corinthians 11:31; Galatians 1:10; Galatians 3:21 [but WH marginal reading brackets]; Hebrews 4:8; Hebrews 8:4, 7.
2. with the indicative aorist (where the Latin uses the pluperfect subjunctive like the future perfect subjunctive, I would have done it), to express what would have been, if this or that either were (εἰ with the imperfect in the protasis preceding), or had been (εἰ with the aorist or pluperfect preceding): Matthew 11:21 and Luke 10:13 (ἄν μετενόησαν they would have repented); Matthew 11:23; Matthew 12:7 (ye would not have condemned); Matthew 24:43 (he would have watched), Matthew 24:22 and Mark 13:20 (no one would have been saved, i. e. all even now would have to be regarded as those who had perished; cf. Winer's Grammar, 304 (286)); John 4:10 (thou wouldst have asked); John 14:2 (εἶπον ἄν I would have said so); John 14:28 (ye would have rejoiced); Romans 9:29 (we should have become); 1 Corinthians 2:8; Galatians 4:15 (R G); Acts 18:14. Sometimes the condition is not expressly stated, but is easily gathered from what is said: Luke 19:23 and Matthew 25:27 (I should have received it back with interest, namely, if thou hadst given it to the bankers).
3. with the pluperfect: John 11:21 [R Tr marginal reading] (οὐκ ἄν ἐτεθνήκει [L T Tr text WH ἀπέθανεν] would not have died, for which, in John 11:32, the aorist οὐκ ἄν ἀπέθανε); John 14:7 [not Tdf.] (εἰ with the pluperfect preceding); 1 John 2:19 (they would have remained with us). Sometimes (as in Greek writings, especially the later) ἄν is omitted, in order to intimate that the thing wanted but little (imperfect) or had wanted but little (pluperfect or aorist) of being done, which yet was not done because the condition was not fulfilled (cf. Alexander Buttmann in the Studien und Kritiken for 1858, p. 489ff; [N. T. Gram., p. 225 (194)]; Fritzsche on Romans, vol. ii., 33; Winer's Grammar, § 42, 2, p. 305 (286)), e. g. John 8:39 (where the ἄν is spurious); John 15:22, 24; John 19:11; Acts 26:32; Romans 7:7; Galatians 4:15 (ἄν before ἐδώκατε has been correctly expunged by L T Tr WH).
II. Joined to relative pronouns, relative adverbs, and adverbs of time and quality, it has the same force as the Latin cumque or cunque, -ever, -soever (German irgend, etwa).
1. followed by a past tense of the indicative, when some matter of fact, something certain, is spoken of; where, "when the thing itself which is said to have been done is certain, the notion of uncertainty involved in ἄν belongs rather to the relative, whether pronoun or particle" (Klotz ad Der., p. 145) [cf. Winer's Grammar, § 42, 3 a.]; ὅσοι ἄν as many as: Mark 6:56 (ὅσοι ἄν ἥπτοντο [ἥψαντο L text T Tr text WH] αὐτοῦ as many as touched him [cf. Buttmann, 216 (187)]); Mark 11:24 (ὅσα ἄν προσευχόμενοι αἰτεῖσθε [Griesbach omits ἄν], but L text T Tr WH have rightly restored ὅσα προσεύχεσθε κ. αἰτεῖσθε). καθότι ἄν in so far or so often as, according as (German je nachdem gerade): Acts 2:45; Acts 4:35. ὡς ἄν: 1 Corinthians 12:2 (in whatever manner ye were led [cf. Buttmann, § 139, 13; 383 (329f)]).
2. followed by a subjunctive,
a. the present, concerning that which may have been done, or is usually or constantly done (where the German uses mögen); ἡνίκα ἄν whensoever, as often as: 2 Corinthians 3:15 L T Tr WH; ὅς ἄν whoever, be he who he may: Matthew 16:25 (L T Tr WH ἐάν); [Mark 8:35 (where T Tr WH future indicative; see WH's Appendix, p. 172)]; Luke 10:5 (L T Tr WH aorist); Luke 10:8; Galatians 5:17 (T Tr WH ἐάν, L brackets ἐάν); 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:17; Romans 9:15 (Exodus 33:19); Romans 16:2; 1 Corinthians 11:27 etc. ὅστις ἄν: 1 Corinthians 16:2 [Tr WH ἐάν; WH marginal reading aorist]; Colossians 3:17 (L text Tr WH ἐάν). ὅσοι ἄν: Matthew 7:12 (T WH ἐάν); Matthew 22:9 (L T Tr WH ἐάν). ὅπου ἄν whithersoever: Luke 9:57 (L Tr ἐάν); Revelation 14:4 (L Tr [T edition 7 not 8, WH] have adopted ὑπάγει, defended also by Buttmann, 228 (196)); James 3:4 (R G L Tr marginal reading in brackets). ὁσάκις ἄν how often soever: 1 Corinthians 11:25f (where L T Tr WH ἐάν). ὡς ἄν in what way soever: 1 Thessalonians 2:7 ([cf. Ellicott at the passage; Buttmann, 232 (200)], L T Tr WH ἐάν).
b. the aorist, where the Latin uses the future perfect; ὅς ἄν: Matthew 5:21, 22 (εἴπῃ whoever, if ever anyone shall have said); Matthew 5:31f (in Matthew 5:32 L T Tr WH read πᾶς ἀπολύων); Matthew 10:11; Matthew 26:48 (Tdf. ἐάν); Mark 3:29, 35; Mark 9:41, etc. ὅστις ἄν: Matthew 10:33 [L Tr WH text omit ἄν]; Matthew 12:50; John 14:13 [Tr marginal reading WH present]; Acts 3:23 (Tdf. ἐάν), etc. ὅσοι ἄν: Matthew 21:22 (Treg. ἐάν); Matthew 23:3 (T WH ἐάν); Mark 3:28 (Tr WH ἐάν); Luke 9:5 (L T Tr WH present); John 11:22; Acts 2:39 (Lachmann οὕς); Acts 3:22. ὅπου ἄν: Mark 14:9 (T WH ἐάν); Mark 9:18 (L T Tr WH ἐάν). ἄχρις οὗ ἄν until (donec): 1 Corinthians 15:25 Rec.; Revelation 2:25. ἕως ἄν until (usque dum): Matthew 2:13; Matthew 10:11; Matthew 22:44; Mark 6:10; Luke 21:32; 1 Corinthians 4:5, etc. ἡνίκα ἄν, of future time, not until then, when... or then at length, when...: 2 Corinthians 3:16 (T WH text ἐάν) [cf. Kühner, 2:951; Jelf, 2:565). ὡς ἄν as soon as [Buttmann, 232 (200)]: 1 Corinthians 11:34; Philippians 2:23. ἀφ’ οὗ ἄν ἐγερθῇ, Luke 13:25 (from the time, whatever the time is, when he shall have risen up). But ἐάν (which see) is also joined to the pronouns and adverbs mentioned, instead of ἄν; and in many places the manuscripts and editions fluctuate between ἄν and ἐάν (examples of which have already been adduced); [cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 96; WH's Appendix, p. 173 "predominantly ἄν is found after consonants, and ἐάν after vowels"]. Finally, to this head must be referred ὅταν (equivalent to ὅτε ἄν) with the indicative and much more often with the subjunctive (see ὅταν), and ὅπως ἄν, although this last came to be used as a final conjunction in the sense, that, if it be possible: Luke 2:35; Acts 3:20 (Acts 3:19); Acts 15:17; Romans 3:4; see ὅπως, II 1 b. [Cf. Winers Grammar, 309 (290f); Buttmann, 234 (201).]
III. ἄν is joined to the optative [Winers Grammar, 303 (284); Buttmann, 217 (188)]; when a certain condition is laid down, as in wishes, I would that etc.: Acts 26:29 (εὐξαίμην [Tdf. εὐξάμην] ἄν, I could pray, namely, did it depend on me); in direct questions [Winers Grammar, the passage cited; Buttmann, 254 (219)]: Acts 8:31 (πῶς ἄν δυναίμην; i. e. on what condition, by what possibility, could I? cf. Xenophon, oec. 11, 5); Acts 17:18 (τί ἄν θέλοι... λέγειν what would he say? it being assumed that he wishes to utter some definite notion or other); Acts 2:12 R G; independent sentences and indirect questions in which the narrator introduces another's thought [Winers Grammar, § 42, 4; Buttmann, the passage cited]: Luke 1:62; Luke 6:11; Luke 9:46; [Luke 15:26 L brackets Tr WH; cf. Luke 18:36 L brackets Tr brackets WH marginal reading]; Acts 5:24; Acts 10:17; Acts 17:20 R G.
IV. ἄν is found without a mood in 1 Corinthians 7:5 (εἰ μή τι ἄν [WH brackets ἄν], except perhaps, namely, γένοιτο [but cf. Buttmann as below]). ὡς ἄν, adverbially, tanquam (so already the Vulg.), as if: 2 Corinthians 10:9 (like ὥσπερ ἄν in Greek writings; cf. Kühner, 2:210 [§ 398 Anm. 4; Jelf, § 430]; Buttmann, 219 (189); ([Liddell and Scott, under the word, D. III.]).
ἄν contracted from ἐάν, if; followed by the subjunctive: John 20:23 [Lachmann ἐάν. Also by the (present) indicative in 1 John 5:15 Lachmann; see Buttman 223 (192); Winers Grammar 295 (277)]. Further, L T Tr WH have received ἄν in John 13:20; John 16:23; [so WH John 12:32; cf. Winers Grammar 291 (274); Buttman 72 (63)].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
33:19
Matthew
2:13; 5:21; 5:22; 5:31; 5:32; 7:12; 10:11; 10:11; 10:33; 11:21; 11:23; 12:7; 12:50; 16:25; 21:22; 22:9; 22:44; 23:3; 23:30; 24:22; 24:43; 25:27; 26:48
Mark
3:28; 3:29; 3:35; 6:10; 6:56; 8:35; 9:18; 9:41; 11:24; 13:20; 14:9
Luke
1:62; 2:35; 6:11; 7:39; 9:5; 9:46; 9:57; 10:5; 10:8; 10:13; 13:25; 15:26; 17:6; 18:36; 19:23; 21:32
John
4:10; 5:46; 8:39; 8:42; 9:41; 11:21; 11:22; 11:32; 12:32;13:20; 14:2; 14:7; 14:13; 14:28; 15:19; 15:22; 15:24; 16:23; 18:36; 19:11; 20:23
Acts
2:12; 2:39; 2:45; 3:19; 3:20; 3:22; 3:23; 4:35; 5:24; 8:31; 10:17; 15:17; 17:18; 17:20; 18:14; 26:29; 26:32
Romans
3:4; 7:7; 9:15; 9:29; 16:2
1 Corinthians
2:8; 4:5; 7:5; 11:25; 11:27; 11:31; 11:34; 12:2; 15:25; 16:2
2 Corinthians
3:15; 3:16; 10:9
Galatians
1:10; 3:21; 4:15; 4:15; 5:17
Philippians
2:23
Colossians
3:17
1 Thessalonians
2:7
Hebrews
4:8; 8:4; 8:7
James
3:4
1 John
2:5; 2:19; 3:17; 5:15
Revelation
2:25; 14:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G302 matches the Greek ἄν (an),
which occurs 33 times in 31 verses in 'Isa' in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 -

If the LORD of Armies

had not left us a few survivors,

we would be like Sodom,

we would resemble Gomorrah.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 -

Then I said, “Until when, Lord? ” And he replied:

Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,

houses are without people,

the land is ruined and desolate,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:10 -

Devise a plan; it will fail.

Make a prediction; it will not happen.

For God is with us.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 -

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 -

On that day the Lord will extend his hand a second time to recover the remnant of his people who survive ​— ​from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:13 -

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will shake from its foundations

at the wrath of the LORD of Armies,

on the day of his burning anger.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:15 -

Whoever is found will be stabbed,

and whoever is caught will die by the sword.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 -

On the day that you plant,

you will help them to grow,

and in the morning

you will help your seed to sprout,

but the harvest will vanish

on the day of disease and incurable pain.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 -

For the Lord has said to me,

“Go, post a lookout;

let him report what he sees.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:14 -

The LORD of Armies has directly revealed to me:

“This iniquity will not be wiped out for you people as long as you live.”[fn]

The Lord GOD of Armies has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:20 -

Go, my people, enter your rooms

and close your doors behind you.

Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:17 -

One thousand will flee at the threat of one,

at the threat of five you will flee,

until you remain

like a solitary pole on a mountaintop

or a banner on a hill.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:31 -

Assyria will be shattered by the voice of the LORD.

He will strike with a rod.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4 -

For this is what the LORD said to me:

As a lion or young lion growls over its prey

when a band of shepherds is called out against it,

and it is not terrified by their shouting

or subdued by their noise,

so the LORD of Armies will come down

to fight on Mount Zion

and on its hill.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:15 -

until the Spirit[fn] from on high is poured out on us.

Then the desert will become an orchard,

and the orchard will seem like a forest.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:6 -

“Look, you are relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who grabs it and leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:17 -

“until I come and take you away to a land like your own land ​— ​a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:4 -

“He will not grow weak or be discouraged

until he has established justice on earth.

The coasts and islands will wait for his instruction.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:4 -

“I will be the same until your old age,

and I will bear you up when you turn gray.

I have made you, and I will carry you;

I will bear and rescue you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 -

“They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along;

they set it in its place, and there it stands;

it does not budge from its place.

They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer;

it saves no one from his trouble.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 -

If only you had paid attention to my commands.

Then your peace would have been like a river,

and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 -

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,

and the offspring of your body like its grains; 

their name would not be cut off

or eliminated from my presence.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:8 -

The voices of your watchmen —

they lift up their voices,

shouting for joy together;

for every eye will see

when the LORD returns to Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:6 -

Seek the LORD while he may be found;

call to him while he is near.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 -

“For just as rain and snow fall from heaven

and do not return there

without saturating the earth

and making it germinate and sprout,

and providing seed to sow

and food to eat,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:11 -

“so my word that comes from my mouth

will not return to me empty,

but it will accomplish what I please

and will prosper in what I send it to do.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:4 -

For the LORD says this:

“For the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,

and choose what pleases me,

and hold firmly to my covenant,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 -

“Will the fast I choose be like this:

A day for a person to deny himself,

to bow his head like a reed,

and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?

Will you call this a fast

and a day acceptable to the LORD?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 -

I will not keep silent because of Zion,

and I will not keep still because of Jerusalem,

until her righteousness shines like a bright light

and her salvation, like a flaming torch.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6 -

“Look, it is written in front of me:

I will not keep silent, but I will repay;

I will repay them fully[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 -

“They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.

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