conjunction
eiper
Strong’sG1512
if indeed, if so
stem eiper-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
εἴ-περ, v.s. εἰ.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1512 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidi per
if perhaps
Fromfrom G1487 and G4007;
King Jamesif so be (that), seeing, though.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
or εἴ περ, strengthened for εἰ, if really, if indeed, Refs 8th c.BC+; especially even if, even though, Refs 8th c.BC+; with words between, εἴ. γάρ τε χόλον γε.. Refs 8th c.BC+
II in Attic dialect and Trag. to imply that the supposition agrees with the fact, if as is the fact, since, Refs 5th c.BC+; but with imperfect it implies that it is contrary to the fact, εἴπερ ἦν πέλας if I had been (but I was not), Refs 5th c.BC+; also εἴ. ἐκτελεῖς ἅπερ λέγεις if only you will keep your word, Refs
III with an ellipse, if you must, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀλλ᾽ εἴ. but if so, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
eiper6×
Romans 3:30eiper henos tos theos, hos dikaiati peritoman …since there is only one God, who …
Romans 8:9… avō en sarka alla en pneume, eiper pneumem theou oikatō en vi. ei …… the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in …
Romans 8:17… klēronomois men theou, sunklēronomois de Christou, eiper sumpaschanō hina kai sundoxazineia.… of God and co-heirs with Christ — if indeed we suffer with Him, so that …
1 Corinthians 8:5kai gar eiper alō legorōntois theois eite en ourano …For even if there are so-called gods, whether in …
1 Corinthians 15:15… egerata ton Christon, hon ouk egerata eiper ara nekrois ouk egerolō.… but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not …
2 Thessalonians 1:6“since”eiper dikaiem para theo antapodōara toi thlibarōntoi …… only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,