Word Summary
eni: is in, has place, can be
Original Word: ἔνιTransliteration: eni
Phonetic Spelling: (en'-ee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: is in, has place, can be
Meaning: is in, has place, can be
Strong's Concordance
be, there is.
Contraction for the third person singular present indicative of eneimi; impersonally, there is in or among -- be, (there) is.
see GREEK eneimi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1762: ἔνιἔνι equivalent to
ἔνι, the accent being thrown back, same as
ἐν, used adverbially (
Winer's Grammar, § 50, 7 N. 2) for
ἐνεστι,
is in, is among, has place, is present (
Homer, Odyssey 21, 218;
Thucydides 2, 40):
Galatians 3:28 (three times);
Colossians 3:11;
James 1:17; with addition of
ἐν ὑμῖν,
1 Corinthians 6:5 (where
Rec. ἐστιν); in secular authors from
Sophocles and
Thucydides on very often,
it can be, is possible, is lawful; (here some would place James, the passage cited). The opinion of many (e. g. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 642; Meyer on Galatians, the passage cited; cf. Ellicott ibid.) that
ἔνι is a contracted form for
ἐνεστι is opposed by the like use of
παρά,
ἀνά, which can hardly be supposed to be contracted from
πάρεστι,
ἀνεστι; cf.
Krüger, § 9, 11, 4;
Winers Grammar, 80 (77);
Göttling, Lehre v., Accent etc., p. 380; (
Chandler § 917f;
Buttmann, 72 (64); Lob. Path. Element. ii. 315).