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εἰς

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Definition

εἰς,

prep. with accusative,

expressing entrance, direction, limit, into, unto, to, upon, towards, for, among (Lat. in, with accusative).

I. Of place.

1. After verbs of motion;

(a) of entrance into: Matthew 8:23; 9:7, Mark 1:45, Luke 2:15; 8:31, al.;

(b) of approach, to or towards: Mark 11:1, Luke 6:8; 19:28, John 11:31; 21:6, al.;

(with) before pl. and collective nouns, among: Mark 4:7; 8:19, 20, Luke 11:49, John 21:23, al.;

(d) Of a limit reached, unto, on, upon: Matthew 8:18; 21:1, Mark 11:1; 13:16, Luke 14:10, John 6:3; 11:32, al.; with accusative of person(s) (as in Ep. and Ion.), Acts 23:15, Romans 5:12; 16:19, 2 Corinthians 10:14;

(e) elliptical: ἐπιστολαὶ εἰς Δαμασκόν, Acts 9:2; ἡ διακονία μου ἡ εἰς Ἱ., Romans 15:31; metaphorically, of entrance into a certain state or condition, or of approach or direction towards some end (Thayer, B, i, 1; ii, 1), εἰς τ. ὄνομα, M, Pr., 200.

2. Of direction;

(a) after verbs of seeing: Matthew 6:26, Mark 6:41, Luke 9:16, 62, John 13:22, al.; metaphorically, of the mind, Hebrews 11:26; 12:2, al.;

(b) after verbs of speaking: Matthew 13:10; 14:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, al.

3. After verbs of rest;

(a) in "pregnant" construction, implying previous motion (cl.; see WM, 516; Bl., §39, 3; M, Pr., 234f.): Matthew 2:23; 4:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 2 Timothy 1:11, Hebrews 11:9, al.;

(b) by an assimilation general in late Gk (see Bl., M, Pr., ll. with) = ἐν: Luke 1:44; 4:23, Acts 20:16; 21:17, John 1:18 (but see Westc, in l.), al.

II. Of time, for, unto;

1. accentuating the duration expressed by the accusative: εἰς τ. αἰῶνα, Matthew 21:19; εἰς γενεὰς καὶ γ., Luke 1:50; εἰς τ. διηνεκές, Hebrews 7:3, al.

2. Of a point or limit of time, unto, up to, until: Matthew 6:34, Acts 4:3; 25:21, Philippians 1:10; 2:16, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, 2 Timothy 1:12; of entrance into a future period, σεις τὸ μέλλον (see: μέλλω), next (year), Luke 13:9 (but with ICC, in l.); εἰς τ. μεταξὺ σάββατον, on the next Sabbath, Acts 13:42; εἰς τὸ πάλιν (see: πάλιν, 2 Corinthians 13:2.

III. Of result, after verbs of changing, joining, dividing, etc.: στρέφειν εἰς, Revelation 11:6; μετας-, Acts 2:20, James 4:9; μεταλλάσσειν, Romans 1:26; σχίζειν εἰς δύο, Matthew 27:51, al.; predicatively with εἴναι, Acts 8:23.

IV. Of relation, to, towards, for, in regard to (so in cl., but more frequently in late Gk., εἰς encroaching on the simple dative, which it has wholly displaced in MGr.; Jannaris, Gr., §1541; Robertson, Gr., 594; Deiss., BS, 117f.): Luke 7:30, Romans 4:20; 15:2, 26, 1 Corinthians 16:1, Ephesians 3:16, al.; ἀγάπη εἰς, Romans 5:8, al.; χρηστός, Ephesians 4:32; φρονεῖν εἰς, Romans 12:16; θαρρεῖν, 2 Corinthians 10:1.

V. Of the end or object: εὔθετος εἰς, Luke 14:34; σόφος, Romans 16:19; ἰσχύειν, Matthew 5:13; εἰς τοῦτο, Mark 1:38, al.; ἀφορίζειν εἰς, Romans 1:1; indicating purpose, εἰς φόβον, Romans 8:15; εἰς ἔνδειξιν, Romans 3:25; εἰς τό, with inf. (= ἵνα or ὥστε; Bl., §71, 5; M, Pr., 218ff.): Matthew 20:19, Romans 1:11, 1 Corinthians 9:18, al.

VI. Adverbial phrases: εἰς τέλος, εἰς τὸ πάλιν, etc (see: τέλος, πάλιν, etc.).

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as εἰς:

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

1,768 total
  1. Luke 23:25εἰς
    As they had requested, he released the one imprisoned for insurrection and murder, and he handed Jesus over to their will.
  2. Luke 23:42εἰς · into
    Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!”
  3. Luke 23:46εἰς · into
    Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.
  4. Luke 24:5εἰς · to
    As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
  5. Luke 24:7εἰς · into
    ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’”
  6. Luke 24:13εἰς · to
    That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
  7. Luke 24:20εἰς · to
    Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.
  8. Luke 24:26εἰς
    Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
  9. Luke 24:28εἰς
    As they approached the village where they were headed, He seemed to be going farther.
  10. Luke 24:33εἰς · to
    And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, gathered together
  11. Luke 24:47εἰς · and; εἰς · to
    …and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
  12. Luke 24:51εἰς · into
    While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.
  13. Luke 24:52εἰς · to
    And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
  14. John 1:7εἰς · as
    He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
  15. John 1:9εἰς · into
    The true Light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
  16. John 1:11εἰς · to
    He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
  17. John 1:12εἰς · in
    But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
  18. John 1:18εἰς · at
    No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
  19. John 1:43εἰς · for
    The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, “Follow Me.”
  20. John 2:2εἰς · to
    …and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
  21. John 2:11εἰς · in
    Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
  22. John 2:12εἰς · to
    After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
  23. John 2:13εἰς · to
    When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  24. John 2:23εἰς · in
    While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
  25. John 3:4εἰς
    “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
  26. John 3:5εἰς
    Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
  27. John 3:13εἰς · into
    No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
  28. John 3:16εἰς · in
    For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
  29. John 3:17εἰς · into
    For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
  30. John 3:18εἰς · in; εἰς · in
    Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
  31. John 3:19εἰς · into
    And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
  32. John 3:22εἰς · into
    After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
  33. John 3:24εἰς · into
    (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
  34. John 3:36εἰς · in
    Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
  35. John 4:3εἰς · to
    He left Judea and returned to Galilee.
  36. John 4:5εἰς · to
    So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
  37. John 4:8εἰς · into
    (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
  38. John 4:14εἰς; εἰς · to
    But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
  39. John 4:28εἰς · into
    Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people,
  40. John 4:36εἰς · for
    Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
  41. John 4:38εἰς
    I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
  42. John 4:39εἰς · in
    Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
  43. John 4:43εἰς · for
    After two days, Jesus left for Galilee.
  44. John 4:45εἰς; εἰς
    Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.
  45. John 4:46εἰς · to
    So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
  46. John 4:47εἰς · to
    When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.