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G1520

G1520 — εἷς

Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

GreekheisnounOccurrences: 266

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:G1520
Word:εἷς
Part of Speech:noun
Etymology:a primary numeral
Language:Greek
Occurrences:266
Transliteration:heis
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:heis` (including the neuter (etc.) hen) n.
Meaning:1. one
KJV Renderings:a(-n, -ny, certain), + abundantly, man, one (another), only, other, some

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

εἷς, μία, ἐν, genitive ἑνός, μιᾶς, ἑνός, a cardinal numeral, one. Used:

1. universally,

a. in opposed to many; and α. added to nouns after the manner of an adjective: Mat 25:15 (opposed to πέντε δύο); Rom 5:12 (opposed to πάντες); Mat 20:13; Mat 27:15; Luk 17:34 (but L WH brackets); Act 28:13; 1Co 10:8; Jas 4:13 (R G), and often; παρά μίαν namely, πληγήν (Winers Grammar, 589 (548); Buttmann, 82 (72)), save one (Winer’s Grammar, § 49, g.), 2Co 11:24; with the article, ὁ εἰς ἄνθρωπος, the one man, of whom I have spoken, Rom 5:15. β. substantively, with a partitive genitive — to denote one, whichever it may be: μίαν τῶν ἐντολῶν, one commandment, whichever of the whole number it may be, Mat 5:19; add, Mat 6:29; Mat 18:6; Mar 9:42; Luk 12:27; Luk 17:2; Luk 17:22; or, that one is required to be singled out from a certain number: Luk 23:39; Joh 19:34, etc. followed by ἐκ with the genitive of a noun signifying a whole, to denote that one of (out of) a company did this or that: Mat 22:35; Mat 26:21; Mat 27:48; Mar 14:18; Luk 17:15; Joh 1:40 (); (T WH Tr marginal reading in brackets), (Tr omits ἐκ); (Rec. omits ἐκ); ; Rev 5:5; Rev 7:13; Rev 9:13; Rev 13:3 (Rec. omits ἐκ. γ. absolutely: Mat 23:8-10; Heb 2:11; Heb 11:12; and where it takes the place of a predicate, Gal 3:20 (cf. Winer’s Grammar, 593 (551)), Gal 3:28 (ye that adhere to Christ make one person, just as the Lord himself); συνάγειν εἰς ἐν, to gather together into one, Joh 11:52; ποιεῖν τά ἀμφότερα ἐν, Eph 2:14; with the article, ὁ εἰς, the one, whom I have named, Rom 5:15; Rom 5:19.

b. in opposed to a division into parts, and in ethical matters to dissensions: ἐν σῶμα πολλά μέλη, Rom 12:4; 1Co 12:12; 1Co 12:20; ἐν εἶναι, to be united most closely (in will, spirit), Joh 10:30; Joh 17:11; Joh 17:21-23; ἐν ἑνί πνεύματι, μία ψυχή, Php 1:27 cf. Act 4:32 (cf. Cicero, Lael. 25 (92)amicitiae vis est in eo, ut unus quasi animus fiat ex pluribus); ἀπό μιᾶς (see ἀπό, III., p. 59{b}), Luk 14:18.

c. with a negative following joined to the verb, εἰς ... οὐ or μή (one ... not, i. e.) no one, (more explicit and emphatic than οὐδείς): ἐν ἐξ αὐτῶν οὐ πεσεῖται, Mat 10:29; besides, Mat 5:18; Luk 11:46; Luk 12:6; this usage is not only Hebraistic (as that language has no particular word to express the notion of none), but also Greek (Aristophanes ecclesiastical 153: thesm. 549; Xenophon, an. 5, 6, 12; Dionysius Halicarnassus, verb. comp. 18, etc.), cf. Winers Grammar, 172 (163); (Buttmann, 121 (106)).

2. emphatically, so that others are excluded, and εἰς is the same as 2. a single (Latinunus equivalent tounicus); joined to nouns: Mat 21:24; Mar 8:14 (οὐκ ... εἰ μή ἕνα ἄρτον); Mar 12:6; Luk 12:52; Joh 11:50; Joh 7:21; 1Co 12:19; Eph 4:5, etc.; absolutely: 1Co 9:24; 2Co 5:14 (15); 1Ti 2:5; Jas 4:12, etc.; οὐδέ εἰς, not even one: Mat 27:14; Joh 1:3; Act 4:32; Rom 3:10; 1Co 6:5 (R G); οὐκ ἐστιν ἕως ἑνός (there is not so much as one), Rom 3:12 from Psa 13:3 (); cf. Latinomnes ad unum, all to a man. Neuter, ἐν, one thing, exclusive of the rest; one thing before all others: Mar 10:21; Luk 18:22; Luk 10:42 (but WH only text); Joh 9:25; Php 3:13 (); Jas 2:10.

b. alone: οὐδείς ... εἰ μή εἰς ὁ Θεός, Mar 2:7 (for which in Luk 5:21 μόνος ὁ Θεός); Mar 10:18; Luk 18:19.

c. one and the same (not at variance with, in accord with oneself): Rom 3:30; Rev 17:13; Rev 17:17 (L omits); ; τό ἐν φρονεῖν, Php 2:2 (WH marginal reading αὐτό); ἕν εἶναι are one, i. e. are of the same importance and esteem, 1Co 3:8; εἰς τό ἐν εἶναι (see εἰμί, V. 2 d.), 1Jn 5:8; more fully τό ἐν καί τό αὐτό. 1Co 12:11; ἐν καί τό αὐτό τίνι, 1Co 11:5.

3. the numerical force of εἰς is often so weakened that it hardly differs from the indefinite pronoun τίς, or from our indefinite article (Winers Grammar, 117 (111) (cf. 29 note 2; Buttmann, 85 (74))): Mat 8:19 εἰς γραμματεύς); ; Joh 6:9 (παιδάριον ἐν, where T Tr WH omit and L brackets ἐν); Rev 8:13; Rev 9:13 (Aristophanes av. 1292; Xenophon, mem. 3, 3, 12; Plato, de rep. 6, p. 494 d.; legg. 9, p. 855 d., etc.; especially later writings; (Tob 1:19 Tob 2:3; Tob 3:1-17 Esdr. 4:18 [LXX 1Es 4:18]; Gen 21:15; 2Sa 2:18; Jdt 14:6); so the Hebrew àÆçÈã, Dan 8:3; Gen 22:13; 1Sa 1:2; 1Ki 21:13 (); see Gesenius, Lchrgeb., p. 655); εἰς τίς (Latinunus aliquis), a certain one; one, I know not who; one who need not be named: with a substantive, Mar 14:51 (L Tr WH omit εἰς); or followed by a genitive Mar 14:47 where L Tr omit; WH brackets τίς; followed by ἐκ, ἐξ, with the genitive: Luk 22:50; Joh 11:49 (ἕν τί τῶν ῤημάτων, Jdt 2:13, and often in Greek writings; cf. Wetstein on Mar 14:51; Matthiae, § 487).

4. it is used distributively (Winers Grammar, § 26, 2; especially Buttmann, 102 (90));

a. εἰς ... καί εἰς, one ... and one: Mat 17:4; Mat 20:21; Mat 24:40 L T Tr WH, ; ; Mar 4:8 (R G L WH marginal reading); Mar 4:20 (R G L Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading in brackets); ; Luk 9:33; Joh 20:12; Gal 4:22; (in Greek authors, εἰς μέν ... εἰς δέ, as Aristotle, eth. 6, 1, 5; Xcn. Cyril 1, 2, 4); with the article prefixed, ὁ εἰς the one, Luk 24:18 R G; followed by ὁ εἰς, the one ... the other, Mat 24:40 R G; followed by ὁ ἕτερος, Mat 6:24; Luk 7:41; Luk 16:13{b}; R WH; R G T WH marginal reading; Act 23:6; εἰς (without the article ... ὁ ἕτερος: Luk 16:13{c}; G L T Tr; L Tr WH text; πέντε ... ὁ εἰς ... ὁ ἄλλος, Rev 17:10.

b. εἰς ἕκαστος, everyone: Act 2:6; Act 20:31; Eph 4:16; Col 4:6; followed by a partitive genitive: Luk 4:40; Luk 16:5; Act 2:3; Act 17:27; Act 21:26; 1Co 12:18; Eph 4:7; 1Th 2:11; cf. Buttmann, 102f (89f); ἀνά εἰς ἕκαστος (see ἀνά, 2), Rev 21:21.

c. a solecism, common in later Greek (cf. Lucian, solace. (Pseudosoph.) § 9; Winers Grammar, § 37, 3; Buttmann, 30f (26f); Fritzsche on Mark, p. 613f; (Sophocles’ Lexicon, under the word καθεῖς)), is καθεἰς, and in combination καθεῖς (so that either κατά is used adverbially, or εἰς as indeclinablc): ὁ καθεἰς, equivalent to εἰς ἕκαστος, Rom 12:5 (where L T Tr WH τό καθ’, as respects each one, severally; cf. what is said against this reading by Fritzsche, commentary, iii., p. 44f, and in its favor by Meyer); with a partitive genitive 3Macc. 5:84; εἰς καθ’ (T WH Tr marginal reading κατά) εἰς, everyone, one by one, Mar 14:19; Joh 8:9; καθἕνα, καθἕν (as in Greek writings), of a series, one by one, successively: καθἐν, all in succession, Joh 21:25 (not Tdf.); καθἕνα πάντες, 1Co 14:31 (Xenophon, venat. 6, 14); καθἕν ἕκαστον, Act 21:19 (Xenophon, Cyril 1, 6, 22 (27); Ages. 7, 1); ὑμεῖς οἱ καθἕνα ἕκαστος, ye severally, every one, Eph 5:33.

5. like the Hebrew àÆçÈã, εἰς is put for the ordinal πρῶτος, first (Winers Grammar, § 37, 1; Buttmann, 29 (26)): μία σαββάτων the first day of the week, Mat 28:1; Mar 16:2; Luk 24:1; Joh 20:1; Joh 20:19; Act 20:7; 1Co 16:2 (L T Tr WH μία σαββάτου); (in Greek writings so used only when joined with other ordinal numbers, as εἷς καί τριηκοστος, Herodotus 5, 89: Diodorus 16. 71. Cicero, de senect. 5uno et octogesimo anna. (Cf. Sophocles Lexicon, under the word)).

Other Resources

Dictionary of New Testament Theology
Colin Brown

Englishman's Greek Concordance

εἷς (a(-n)

Matthew 5:18

KJV: For verily I say unto you Till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled
GK: αμήν γαρ λέγω υμίν έως αν παρέλθη ο ουρανός και η γη ιώτα εν η μία κεραία ου παρέλθη από του νόμου έως αν πάντα γένηται

Matthew 5:29

KJV: And if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into hell
GK: ει δε ο οφθαλμός σου ο δεξιός σκανδαλίζει σε έξελε αυτόν και βάλε από σου συμφέρει γαρ σοι ίνα απόληται εν των μελών σου και μη όλον το σώμά σου βληθή εις γέενναν

Matthew 5:30

KJV: And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into hell
GK: και ει η δεξιά σου χείρ σκανδαλίζει σε έκκοψον αυτήν και βάλε από σου συμφέρει γαρ σοι ίνα απόληται εν των μελών σου και μη όλον το σώμά σου βληθή εις γέενναν

Matthew 5:41

KJV: And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile go with him twain
GK: και όστις σε αγγαρεύσει μίλιον εν ύπαγε μετ΄ αυτού δύο

Matthew 6:24

KJV: No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other Ye cannot serve God and mammon
GK: ουδείς δύναται δυσί κυρίοις δουλεύειν η γαρ τον ένα μισήσει και τον έτερον αγαπήσει η ενός ανθέξεται και του ετέρου καταφρονήσει ου δύνασθε θεώ δουλεύειν και μαμμωνά

Matthew 6:27

KJV: Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature
GK: τις δε εξ υμών μεριμνών δύναται προσθείναι επί την ηλικίαν αυτού πήχυν ένα

Matthew 6:29

KJV: And yet I say unto you That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these
GK: λέγω δε υμίν ότι ουδέ Σολομών εν πάση τη δόξη αυτού περιεβάλετο ως εν τούτων

Matthew 8:19

KJV: And a certain scribe came and said unto him Master I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest
GK: και προσελθών εις γραμματεύς είπεν αυτώ διδάσκαλε ακολουθήσω σοι όπου εάν απέρχη

Matthew 9:18

KJV: While he spake these things unto them behold there came a certain ruler and worshipped him saying My daughter is even now dead but come and lay thy hand upon her and she shall live
GK: ταύτα αυτού λαλούντος αυτοίς ιδού άρχων εις ελθών προσεκύνει αυτώ λέγων ότι η θυγάτηρ μου άρτι ετελεύτησεν αλλά ελθών επίθες την χείρά σου επ΄ αυτήν και ζήσεται
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