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G1536 εἴ τις (eí tis)

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if any

Strong's Definition

if any

Derivation: from G1487 (εἰ) and G5100 (τὶς);

KJV Usage: he that, if a(-ny) man('s thing, from any, ought), whether any, whosoever

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

τὶς, τὶ. ἘΣ what follows, εἰ καί lays less emphasis upon it; although it is evident that εἰ καί can often be substituted for καὶ ei.” Cf. Herm. Vig. p. 829 sq.; W. 444 (413); Ellic. on Phil. ii. 17; Schmalfeld, Griech. Syntax, § 41; Paley, Grk. Particles, p. 31]. 8. εἰ μή, a. in a conditional protasis, with the same sequence of moods and tenses as the simple εἰ, see 1. above, if not, unless, except, [W. 477 (444) sqq.; B. 345 (297)]: Mt. xxiv. 22; Jn. ix. 33; | xv. 22, 24; Ro. vii. 7, ete. b. it serves, with the entire. following sentence, to limit or correct what has just been said, only, save that, (Lat. nisi quod), [B. 359 (308) ]: Mk. vi. 5; 1 Co. vii. 17 (where Paul by the addition εἰ μὴ ἑκάστῳ κτλ. strives to prevent any one in applying what had been said a little while before, viz. οὐ δεδούλωται . . ἐν τοιούτοις to his own case, from going too far) ; in ironical answers, unless perchance, save forsooth that, (Kiihner ὃ 577, 7; [Jelf § 860, 5 Obs.]): εἰ μὴ χρήζομεν κτλ. 2 Co. iii. 1 Ree. ο. εἰ μή very often coalesce into one particle, as it were, which takes the same verb as the preceding negation: unless, i. q. except, save, [Kiihner § 577, 8; Β. 869 (308)]; α. univ.: Mt. xi. 27; xii. 39; Mk. ii. 26; viii. 14; Jn. iii. 13; Ro. vii. 7; xiii. 1, 8; 1 Co. viii. 4; xii. 3; 2 Co. xii. 5, ete. as in classic Greek, μόνος, μόνον, is added pleonastically: Mt. xvii. 8; xxi. 19; xxiv. 36; Acts xi. 19; Phil. iv. 15; Rev. xiii. 17, ete. β. after negatives joined to nouns it is so used as to refer to the negative alone (hence many have regarded it as used for ἀλλά [i.e. as being not exceptive but adversative]), and can be rendered in Lat. sed tantum, but only: Mt. xii. 4 (οὐκ ἐξὸν ἦν αὐτῷ φαγεῖν οὐδὲ τοῖς μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ, εἰ μὴ τοῖς ἱερεῦσι μόνοις, as if οὐκ ἐξὸν ἦν φαγεῖν alone preceded) ; Lk. iv. 26 sq.; Ro. xiv. 14; Rey. ix. 4; xxi. 27 (ἐὰν μή 15 so used in Gal. ii. 16; on Gal. i. 19 see Ἰάκωβος, 3); cf. Fritzsche on Rom. vol. iii. p. 195; [see ἐάν, I. 3 c. and reff.]. γ. when preceded by the interrogative τίς in questions having a negative force: Mk. τ. 1 ke 21. Ros χὶς 15)5) 1 Coie 11: 2| Conary ὃ: xis 13; Heb. iii. 18; 1 Jn.ii. 22; v.5; (Xen. oec. 9,1; Arstph. eqq. 615). δ. with other conjunctions: εἰ μὴ ἵνα, Jn. x.10; εἰ μὴ ὅταν, Mk. ix. 9; ri ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ ὅτι etc., 2 Co. xii. 13; Eph. iv. 9. e. it has its own verb, and makes a phrase by itself: ὃ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλο, εἰ μή τινές εἰσιν οἱ ταράσσοντες ὑμᾶς which means nothing else, save that there are some who trouble you, Gal. i. 7 [so Winer (Com. ad loc.) et al.; but see Meyer]. ἃ. ἐκτὸς εἰ μή, arising from the blending of the two expressions εἰ μή and ἐκτὸς εἰ, like the Lat. nisi si equiv. to praeterquam si, except in case, except: 1 Tim. v. 19; with the indic. aor. 1 Co. xv. 2; with the subjune. pres. 1 Co. xiv. δ; (Leian. de luctu c. 19; dial. meret. 1, 2, ete.). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 459; W.§ 65, 8 ο. ; [B. indexs. v. ἐκτὸς εἰ μή]. 9. εἰ μήν, assuredly, surely, in oaths: Heb. vi. 14 LT Tr WH (for RG# μήν [q. v-]) and several times in Sept. as Ezek. xxxiii. 27; xxxiv. 8; [ef. xxxvi. 5; XXxvili. 19; 1 K. xxi. (xx.) 23], ete.; here, if εἰ did not come from 7 by itacism, εἰ μήν must be explained as a confusion of the Hebraistic εἰ μή (see I. 5 above) and the Grk. formula of asseveration 4 μήν ; cf. Bleek on Heb. εἰ 112 vol. ii. 2 p. 248 sqq., and what Fritzsche says on the other side, Com. on Bar. ii. 29; Judithi. 12; [cf. Kneucker on Bar. 1. c.; B. 359 (308); Τὰ Proleg. p.59; WH. App. p. 151; B. D.s. v. New Testament, I. 811. 10. εἰ μή τι Or μήτι, unless in some respect, unless perchance, unless indeed: ironically, with the indic. pres. 2 Co. xiii. 5; hesitatingly, with the subjune. aor. Lk. ix. 13; cf. Meyer ad loc. [also W. 294 (276); B. 221 (191)]; εἰ μή τι ἄν: 1 Co. vil. 5, see ἄν, LV. 11. εἰ ov (fully discussed by W. ὃ 55, 2c. and B. 345 (297) sqq.), ifnot; this combination is used much more frequently in the N. T. than in the more elegant Grk. auth.; it differs from εἰ μή in this, that in the latter μή belongs to the particle εἰ, while in εἰ οὐ the οὐ refers to some following word and denies it emphatically, not infrequently even coalescing with it intoasingleidea. a. when the idea to which οὐ belongs is antithetic a. toa positive term, either preceding or following: εἰ δὲ οὐ μοιχεύεις φονεύεις δέ, Jas. ii. 11 fin R G the fut.]; εἰ γὰρ ὁ θεὸς . .. οὐκ ἐφείσατο, .. ἀλλὰ. δώσει... διά γε - « « δώσει, Lk. xi. 8; εἰ οὐ Td... εἰ δὲ ποιῶ, Jn. χ. 87 564. ; εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε .... εἰ δὲ - - - οὐ πιorevere, Jn. ν. 46 54.; add, Mk. xi. 26 RGL; Ro. viii. 9; 1Co.ix. 2; xi.6; Jas.iii.2. B. to some other idea which is negative (formally or virtually): εἰ... . . παρέδωκεν εἰς κρίσιν, 2 Pet. 11. 4 sq.; εἰ καὶ οὐ + OUK dxovovow, ove... πεισθήσονται, Lk. xvi. 31; ei... οὐκ ἐφείσατο, οὐδὲ σοῦ φείσεται [ Rec. -σηται], Ro. xi. 21; add, 1 Co. xv. 13, 15-17; 2 Th. iii. 10; foll. in the apodosis by a question having the force of a negative: Lk. xvi. 11 sq.; Jn. iii. 12; 1 Tim. iii.5. 0. the od denies with emphasis the idea to which it belongs: καλὸν ἦν αὐτῷ, εἰ οὐκ ἐγεννήθη, good were it for him not to have been born, Mt. xxvi. 24; Mk. xiv. 21. δ. the whole emphasis is placed on the negative itself : εἰ σὺ οὐκ εἶ ὁ Χριστός, Jn. i. 25. ὍὌ. the οὐ coalesces, as it were, with the word to which it belongs into a single idea: εἰ δὲ οὐκ ἐγκρατεύονται, if they are incontinent, 1 Co. vii. 9; εἴ τις τῶν ἰδίων οὐ προνοεῖ [or -εῖται T Tr txt. WH mrg.], neglects, 1 Tim. v. 8; add, Lk. xiv. 26; 1 Co. xvi. 22; Rev. xx. 15, ete. 12. εἰ οὖν, if then: Mt. vi. 23; vii. 11; Lk. xi. 13, 36; Jn. xiii. 14; xviii. 8; Acts xi. 17; Col. iii. 1; Philem. 17. [On εἰ μὲν οὖν see μέν 11]. 4.) 13. εἴπερ [50 ΤΎΝΗ (exe. in 2 Co. ν. 3 mrg.), but L Tr εἴ περ; cf. W. 45; Lipsius, Gram. Unters. p. 123], (εἰ and πέρ, and this apparently from περί), prop. if on the whole; if only, provided that, is used “of a thing which is assumed to be, but whether rightly or wrongly is left in doubt ” (Herm. ad Vig. p. 831, [so W. 448 (417); but ef. Bdumlein, Griech. Partikeln, p. 202 (cf. 64 bot.) ; K/otz ad Devar. ii. 2 p. 528, and esp. s. v. εἴγε (in γέ, 3 6.) and the reff. to Mey., Lghtft., Ellic., there given]): Ro. viii. 9,17; 1 Co. vill. 5; xv. 15; 1 Pet. ii. 3 (where L T Tr WH εἰν; by a species of rhetorical politeness it is used of that about which there is no doubt: 2 Th. i. 6; Ro. iii. 30 L T Tr WH; 2 Co. v. 3 L Tr WH mre. 14. εἴ πως [L Tr WH] or εἴπως [ἃ ΤΊ, if in any way, if by any means, if possibly: with the optat. pres. (see I. 7 above), Acts xxvii. 12; interrogatively, with the indic. fut. Ro. i. 10; | with the subjune. aor., so that before εἰ the word σκοπῶν or πειρώμενος must be mentally supplied (see II. 1 ἃ. above): Ro. xi. 14; Phil. iii. 11. 15. εἴτε. .. εἴτε, a. whether... or [as disjunc. conjunce., sive ... sive; ef. W. 440 (409 sq.) ; B. 221 (191) ], without a verb following: Ro. xii. 6-8; 1 Co. iii. 22; viii. 5; 2 Co. v. 9sq.; Phil. i. 18, 20, 27; 2 Th. ii. 15; Col. i. 16, 20; 1 Pet. ii . etre, 1 Co. xv. 11; foll. by the indic. pres., 1 Co. xii. 26; xiii. 8; 2 Co. i. 6; foll. by the subjune. pres. 1 Th. v. 10, where the use of the subjune. was occasioned by the subjunc. ζήσωμεν in the leading clause; cf. W. 294 (276); Β.221 (191). b. [as indirect interrogatives, utrum...an; cf. B. 250(215)] (see exx. fr. Grk. auth. in Matthiae p. 1476 sq.) : after οὐκ vida, 2 Co. xii. 2sq. 116. εἴ τις, εἴ τε: exx. of this combination have already been given among the preceding; here may be added εἴ τις ἕτερος, εἴ τι ἕτερον, and if (there be) any other person or thing, —a phrase used as a conclusion after the mention or enumeration of several particulars belonging to the same class (in the classics εἴ τις ἄλλος, εἰ Kal τις ἄλλος, καὶ εἴ TL ἄλλο, etc., in Hdt., Xen., Plat., al.): Ro. xiii. 9; 1 Tim. i. 10; εἴ τις with subjune. pres. Rey. xi. 5 Ree.; with the subjune. aor., ibid. T Tr WH txt. [elye, see ye, 8 c.]

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

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Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

From G1487 and G5100

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

τις (indef. pron.), ‘* someone, something’’: P Vat ΑἸ (B.c. 168) (= UPZi. p. 303) πᾶς τις πειρᾶται. . ., P Lond 421° (B.C. 168) (= Selections, p. 10) εἰς πᾶν τι ἐληλυθυῖα διὰ, τὴν τοῦ σίτου τιμήν, ‘having come to the last extremity because of the high price of corn,’’ P Oxy IV. 7421° (B.c. 2) ἐάν τι δύνῃ... δὸς ἐργασίαν, “if you can, give your attention to it’’ (Edd.), 2d. I. 120% (iv/a.D.) τινα ὁρῶντα αἱαυτὸν (/. ἑαυτὸν) ἐν δυστυχίᾳ, ““α man finding himself in adversity,’ 13 ἀποστῖλόν pot τινα ἢ Γοῦνθον ἢ ᾿Αμμώνιον, “send someone to me, either Gunthus or Ammonius” (Edd.). P Oxy VI. 937°" (ili/A.D.) γ]ράψον ἐκεῖ TO kat’ εἶδος ὅτι τι kal τι εἴληφας is translated by the editors ‘* write the list there, that you have received so and so.” They 3) ες remark that it is simpler to take τι καί τι as analogous to τὸ καὶ τό than ‘‘to take τί kal τί as an indirect interrogative, ὅτι being redundant.” For tus used to denote an unspecified name, cf. P Oxy VII. 1034!" (ii/A.D.) κληρονόμους καταλείπω τὴν θυγατέρ[α] μου τινὰ καὶ τὸν {roy} σύντροφον αὐτῆς τινὰ καί τινα, τὸν μέν τινα ἧς TpoUTHAAAEA .. . οἰκίας καὶ αὐλῆς, “1 leave as my heirs my daughter x and her foster-brother y and z, z of the house and court which I previously mortgaged ” (Ed.), and zd. III. 509! (late ii/A.p.) τίς τινι χαίρει[ν, “A to B, greeting” (Edd.). A good parallel to Ac 5%° is afforded by Ῥ Leid Wi. (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 103) διαπεράσεις TO πέρα, ὅτι ἐγώ ipl (/. εἰμί) τις : cf. also Herodas VI. 54 ἦν μέν kor, ἦν τις, ἀλλὰ νῦν γεγήρακε, ““ he once cut a figure, only now he has grown old” (see Headlam’s note). For τίς mote see P Oxy IV. 7457 (c. A-D. I) μοι ἐχρήσατο . οὐχ ὡς λύσαζνντι GAN ὥς τινί ποτε ἀποστερητῆϊ μὴ ἀποϑεδωκότι, “he treated me not like a man who had paid but like a defrauder and a debtor” (Edd.), and 74. XIV. 168018 * (jii/iv A.D.) ὑπονοοῦμαι ὅτι πάντως πάλιν τί ποτε ἔχει πρὸς σέ. [εἴ τί ποτε αὐτῷ χρεωστεῖς . . ., “1 suspect that he must have some further claim against you. If you owe him anything . . .” MGr has retained τίποτε (in a variety of forms, Thumb Havas. p. 358), while discarding most forms of τις (24. p. 95 f.). With μήτιγε βιωτικά, “not to speak of mere affairs of daily life,” in 1 Cor 6% cf. P Lond 425 (B.c. 168) (= I. p. 30, UPZ i. p. 300, Selections, p. 10) μὴ ὅτι ye τοσούτου χρόνον ἐπιγεγονότος, “not to speak of so much time having gone by”: see Proleg. p. 240. J. H. Moulton (Pro/eg. p. 59) thinks that the very difficult εἴ τις σπλάγχνα καὶ οἰκτιρμοί of Phil 21, involving as it does both number and gender, may be illustrated from

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

εἴ τις (ei tis) — if any. Related to: εἰ, Attic dialect-Ionic dialect and [Refs 4th c.AD+] ἤ [Refs] in Epic dialect:— Particle used interjectionally with imperative and to express a wish, but usually either in conditions, if, or in indirect questions, whether. In the former use its regular negative is μ; in the latter, οὐ. __A INTERJECTIONALLY, in [Refs 8th c.BC+], come now! with imperative, εἰ δὲ.. ἄκουσον [Refs 8th c.BC+] __A.2 in wishes, with optative, ἀλλ᾽ εἴ τις.. καλέσειεν [Refs]; so later, εἴ μοι ξυνείη μοῖρα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of unattained wishes, in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; later with past tenses of indicative, εἰ γάρ μ᾽ ὑπὸ γῆν.. ἧκεν [Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἰ γὰρ τοσαύτην δύναμιν εἶχον ὥστε.. [Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive (compare the use of infinitive in commands), αἰ γὰρ τοῖος ἐὼν.. ἐμὸς γαμβρὸς καλέεσθαι [Refs] __A.2.b εἴθε, Epic dialect αἴθε, is frequently used in wishes in the above constructions, εἴθε οἱ αὐτῷ Ζεὺς ἀγαθὸν τελέσειεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]: later with infinitive, γαίης χθαμαλωτέρη εἴθε.. κεῖσθαι [Refs 1st c.BC+] __A.2.c εἰ γάρ, εἴθε are also used with ὤφελον (Epic dialect ὤφελλον), of past unattained wishes, αἴθ᾽ ὤφελλες στρατοῦ ἄλλου σημαίνειν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰ γὰρ ὤφελον [κατιδεῖν] [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.2.d followed by a clause expressing a consequence of the fulfilment of the wish, αἰ γὰρ τοῦτο.. ἔπος τετελεσμένον εἴη· τῷ κε τάχα γνοίης.. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; sometimes hard to distinguish from εἰ in conditions (which may be derived from this use), εἴ μοί τι πίθοιο, τό κεν πολὺ κέρδιον εἴη [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B IN CONDITIONS, if: __B.I with INDIC., __B.I.1 with all tenses (for future, see below [Refs]if this is so, it will be.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]: any form of the Verb may stand in apodosi, εἰ θεοί τι δρῶσιν αἰσχρόν, οὐκ εἰσὶν θεοί [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰ οὗτοι ὀρθῶς ἀπέστησαν, ὑμεῖς ἂν οὐ χρεὼν ἄρχοιτε if these were right in their revolt, (it would follow that) you rule when you have no right, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.I.1.b to express a general condition, if ever, whenever, sometimes with present, εἴ τις δύο ἢ καὶ πλείους τις ἡμέρας λογίζεται, μάταιός ἐστιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with imperfect, εἴ τίς τι ἠρώτα ἀπεκρίνοντο [Refs 5th c.BC+]: rarely with aorist, [Refs 1st c.BC+] __B.I.2 with future (much less frequently than ἐάν with subjunctive), either to express a future supposition emphatically, εἰ φθάσομεν τοὺς πολεμίους κατακαίνοντες οὐδεὶς ἡμῶν ἀποθανεῖται [Refs 5th c.BC+] in threats or warnings, εἰ μὴ καθέξεις γλῶσσαν ἔσται σοι κακά [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.I.2.b to express a present intention or expectation, αἶρε πλῆκτρον εἰ μαχεῖ if you mean to fight, [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.I.3 with historical tenses, implying that the condition is or was unfulfilled. __B.I.3.a with imperfect, referring to present time or to continued or repeated action in past time (in [Refs 8th c.BC+], if they did not live an abstemious life, [Refs 5th c.BC+] would not have been master of islands, if he had not had also some naval force, [Refs 7th c.BC+]; εἰ ἦσαν ἄνδρες ἀγαθοὶ.. οὐκ ἄν ποτε ταῦτα ἔπασχον if they had been good men, they would never have suffered as they did, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰ γὰρ ἐγὼ τάδε ᾔδἐ.. οὐκ ἂν ὑπεξέφυγε if I had known this.., [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.I.3.b with aorist referring to past time, εἰ μὴ ἔφυσε θεὸς μέλι.. ἔφασκον γλύσσονα σῦκα πέλεσθαι [Refs 6th c.BC+]; εἰ μὴ ὑμεῖς ἤλθετε, ἐπορευόμεθα ἂν ἐπὶ βασιλέα had you not come, we should be on our way.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with pluperfect in apodosi, εἰ τριάκοντα μόναι μετέπεσον τῶν ψήφων, ἀπεπεφεύγη ἄν [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.I.3.c rarely with pluperfect referring to action finished in past or present time, λοιπὸν δ᾽ ἂν ἦν ἡμῖν ἔτι περὶ τῆς πόλεως διαλεχθῆναι, εἰ μὴ προτέρα τῶν ἄλλων τὴν εἰρήνην ἐπεποίητο if she had not (as she has done) made peace before the rest, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II with SUB[Refs 1st c.AD+] (Epic dialect κε, κεν), compare ἐάν: [Refs 4th c.BC+]; but ἄν (κε, κεν) are frequently absent in [Refs 8th c.BC+], cf. Foed.Doric dialect cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; occasionally in Trag., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; very rarely in Attic dialect Prose, εἰ ξυστῶσιν αἱ πόλεις [Refs 5th c.BC+]: in later Prose, εἴ τις θελήσῃ [NT+3rd c.AD+] __B.II.1 when the apodosis is future, to express a future condition more distinctly and vividly than εἰ with optative, but less so than εἰ with future indicative (above [Refs]; εἰ δέ κεν ὣς ἕρξῃς καί τοι πείθωνται Ἀχαιοί, γνώσῃ ἔπειθ᾽.. if thou do thus.., thou shalt know, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἂν μὴ νῦν ἐθέλωμεν ἐκεῖ πολεμεῖν αὐτῷ, ἐνθάδ᾽ ἴσως ἀναγκασθησόμεθα τοῦτο ποιεῖν if we be not now willing, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.2 when the apodosis is present, denoting customary or repeated action, to express a general condition, if ever, ἤν ποτε δασμὸς ἵκηται, σοὶ τὸ γέρας πολὺ μεῖζον (i.e. ἐστί) whenever a division comes, your prize is (always) greater, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἢν ἐγγὺς ἔλθῃ θάνατος, οὐδεὶς βούλεται θνῄσκειν if death come near, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; with ἄν omitted, εἴ περ γάρ τε χόλον.. καταπέψῃ ἀλλά.. ἔχει κότον [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.II.2.b with Rhet. present in apodosis, ἐὰν μὴ οἱ φιλόσοφοι βασιλεύσωσιν, οὐκ ἔστι κακῶν παῦλα there is (i.e. can be, will be) no rest.., [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.III with OPTATIVE (never with ἄν in early Gr., later ἐάν with optative, [Refs 5th c.AD+] __B.III.1 to express a future condition less definitely than ἐάν with subjunctive, usually with optative with ἄν in apodosis, ἦ κεν γηθήσαι Πρίαμος Πριάμοιό τε παῖδες.. εἰ σφῶιν τάδε πάντα πυθοίατο μαρναμένοιιν surely they would exult, if they should hear.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]: future optative is falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with present indicative in apodosis, [Refs 6th c.BC+]: with future indicative, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.III.1.b in Hom.sometimes with present optative, to express an unfulfilled present condition, εἰ μὲν νῦν ἐπὶ ἄλλῳ ἀεθλεύοιμεν, ἦ τ᾽ ἂν ἐγὼ τὰ πρῶτα φεροίμην if we were now contending, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.III.2 when the apodosis is past, denoting customary or repeated action, to express a general condition in past time (corresponding to use of subjunctive in present time, above [Refs]; once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰ δέ τινας θορυβουμένους αἴσθοιτο.., κατασβεννύναι τὴν ταραχὴν ἐπειρᾶτο if he should see (whenever he saw) any troops in confusion, he (always) tried, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἴ τις ἀντείποι, εὐθὺς ἐτεθνήκει if any one made objection, he was a dead man at once, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: indicative and optative are found in same sentence, ἐμίσει, οὐκ εἴ τις κακῶς πάσχων ἠμύνετο, ἀλλ᾽ εἴ τις εὐεργετούμενος ἀχάριστος φαίνοιτο [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.III.3 in oratio obliqua after past tenses, representing ἐάν with subjunctive or εἰ with a primary (never an historical) tense of the indicative in oratio recta, ἐλογίζοντο ὡς, εἰ μὴ μάχοιντο, ἀποστήσοιντο αἱ πόλεις (representing ἐὰν μὴ μαχώμεθα, ἀποστήσονται) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔλεγεν ὅτι, εἰ βλαβερὰ πεπραχὼς εἴη, δίκαιος εἴη ζημιοῦσθαι (representing εἰ βλαβερὰ πέπραχε, δίκαιός ἐστι)[Refs]; εἰ δέ τινα φεύγοντα λήψοιτο, προηγόρευεν ὅτι ὡς πολεμίῳ χρήσοιτο (representing εἴ τινα λήψομαι, χρήσομαι) [Refs]; also, where oratio obliqua is implied in the leading clause, οὐκ ἦν τοῦ πολέμου πέρας Φιλίππῳ, εἰ μὴ Θηβαίους.. ἐχθροὺς ποιήσειε τῇ πόλει, i.e. Philip thought there would be no end to the war, unless he should make.. (his thought having been ἐὰν μὴ ποιήσω), [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.III.4 with optative with ἄν, only when the clause serves as apodosis as well as protasis,[Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.IV with infinitive, in oratio obliqua, only in [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.V after Verbs denoting wonder, delight, indignation, disappointment, contentment, and similar emotions, εἰ with indicative is used instead of ὅτι, to express the object of the feeling in a hypothetical form, θαυμάζω εἰ μηδεὶς ὑμῶν μήτ᾽ ἐνθυμεῖται μήτ᾽ ὀργίζεται, ὁρῶν.. I wonder that no one of you is either concerned or angry when he sees.., [Refs 4th c.BC+]: after past tenses, ἐθαύμασε δ᾽ εἰ μὴ φανερόν ἐστιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐθαύμαζε δ᾽ εἴ τις ἀρετὴν ἐπαγγελλόμενος ἀργύριον πράττοιτο he wondered that any one should demand money, [Refs]; ἔχαιρον ἀγαπῶν εἴ τις ἐάσοι I rejoiced, being content if any one should let it pass, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —in this use the _negative_ οὐ is also found, ἀγανακτῶ εἰ ὁ Φίλιππος ἁρπάζων οὐ λυπεῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.VI in citing a fact as a ground of argument or appeal, as surely as, since, εἴ ποτ᾽ ἔην γε if there was [as there was], i.e. as sure as there was such an one, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολλοὺς γὰρ οἶκε εἶναι εὐπετέστερον διαβάλλειν ἢ ἕνα, εἰ Κλεομένεα μὲν μοῦνον οὐκ οἷός τε ἐγένετο διαβαλεῖν, τρεῖς δὲ μυριάδας Ἀθηναίων ἐποίησε τοῦτο it seems easier to deceive many than one, if (as was the fact, i.e. since) he was not able.., [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.VII ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS: __B.VII.1 with apodosis implied in the context, εἰ having the force of in case, supposing that, πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, εἰ ἐπιβοηθοῖεν, ἐχώρουν they marched towards the city [so as to meet the citizens], in case they should rush out, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἱκέται πρὸς σὲ δεῦρ᾽ ἀφίγμεθα, εἴ τινα πόλιν φράσειας ἡμῖν εὔερον we have come hither to you, in case you should tell us of some fleecy city (i.e. that we might hear of it), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρέζεο καὶ λαβὲ γούνων, αἴ κέν πως ἐθέλῃσιν ἐπὶ Τρώεσσιν ἀρῆξαι sit by him and grasp his knees [so as to persuade him], in case he be willing to help the Trojans, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄκουσον καὶ ἐμοῦ, ἐάν σοι ἔτι ταὐτὰ δοκῇ hear me also [that you may assent], in case the same opinion please you, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰδὲ δή, ἐάν σοι ὅπερ ἐμοὶ συνδοκῇ look now, in case you approve what I do, [Refs] __B.VII.2 with apodosis suppressed for rhetorical reasons, εἴ περ γάρ κ᾽ ἐθέλῃσιν Ὀλύμπιος.. στυφελίξαι if he wish to thrust him away, [he will do so], [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰ μὲν δώσουσι γέρας—· εἰ δέ κε μὴ δώωσιν, ἐγὼ δέ κεν αὐτὸς ἕλωμαι if they shall give me a prize, [well and good]; but if they give not, then I will take one for myself, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; καὶ ἢν μὲν ξυμβῇ ἡ πεῖρα—· εἰ δὲ μή.. and if the attempt succeed, [well]; otherwise.., [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.VII.3 with the Verb of the protasis omitted, chiefly in the following expressions: __B.VII.3.a εἰ μή except, οὐδὲν ἄλλο σιτέονται, εἰ μὴ ἰχθῦς μοῦνον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μὰ τὼ θεώ, εἰ μὴ Κρίτυλλά γ᾽ [εἰμί]—nay, if I'm not Critylla! i.e. I am, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰ μὴ ὅσον except only, ἐγὼ μέν μιν οὐκ εἶδον, εἰ μὴ ὅσον γραφῇ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰ μή τι οὖν, ἀλλὰ σμικρόν γέ μοι τῆς ἀρχῆς χάλασον if nothing else, yet.., [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.VII.3.b εἰ δὲ μή but if not, i.e. otherwise, προηγόρευε τοῖς Λαμψακηνοῖσι μετιέναι Μιλτιάδεα, εἰ δὲ μή, σφέας πίτυος τρόπον ἀπείλεε ἐκτρίψειν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; after μάλιστα μέν, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —after a preceding _negative_, μὴ τύπτ᾽· εἰ δὲ μή, σαυτόν ποτ᾽ αἰτιάσει don't beat me; otherwise, you will have yourself to blame, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.VII.3.c εἰ δέ sometimes stands for εἰ δὲ μή, εἰ μὲν βούλεται, ἑψέτω· εἰ δ᾽, ὅτι βούλεται, τοῦτο ποιείτω [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰ δὲ τοῦτο and if so, [Refs 1st c.BC+] __B.VII.3.d εἰ γάρ for if so, [Refs] __B.VII.3.e εἴ τις if any, i. e. as much as or more than any, τῶν γε νῦν αἴ τις ἐπιχθονίων, ὀρθῶς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἴ τις ἄλλος, siquis alius, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also κατ᾽ εἰ δέ τινα τρόπον in any way, [Refs] __B.VII.3.f εἴ ποτε or εἴπερ ποτέ now if ever, ἡμῖν δὲ καλῶς, εἴπερ ποτέ, ἔχει.. ἡ ξυναλλαγή [Refs 7th c.BC+]; but in prayers, εἴ ποτέ τοι ἐπὶ νηὸν ἔρεψα.. τόδε μοι κρήηνον ἐέλδωρ [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.VII.3.g εἴ ποθεν (i.e. δυνατόν ἐστι) if from any quarter, i.e. from some quarter or other, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so εἴ ποθι somewhere, anywhere, [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.VII.3.h εἴ πως[Refs 5th c.BC+]: in an elliptical sentence (cf. VII. [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.VIII with other PARTICLES: __B.VIII.1 for the distinction between καὶ εἰ (or καὶ ἐάν, or κἄν) even if, and εἰ καί (or ἐὰν καί) even though, see at {καί}:—the opposite of καὶ εἰ is οὐδ᾽ εἰ, not even if; that of εἰ καί is εἰ μηδέ, if (although) not even. __B.VIII.2 for ὡς εἰ, ὡς εἴ τε, ὥσπερ εἰ, etc., see at {ὡς} and ὥσπερ. __B.VIII.3 for εἰ ἄρα, see at {ἄρα}; for εἰ δή, εἴπερ, see at {εἰ δή, εἴπερ}; for εἴ γε, see at {γέ}. __B.IX in negative oaths, = Hebrew im, [LXX+NT] __C IN INDIRECT QUESTIONS, whether, followed by the indicative, subjunctive, or optative, according to the principles of oratio obliqua: __C.1 with IN[Refs 4th c.BC+] whether he is a god, [Refs 8th c.BC+] __C.2 with SUB[Refs 1st c.AD+]subjunctive in the direct question, τὰ ἐκπώματα οὐκ οἶδ᾽ εἰ Χρυσάντᾳ τουτῳῒ δῶ whether I should give them, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __C.3 OPT. after past tenses, representing either of the two previous constructions in the direct question, ἤρετο εἴ τις ἐμοῦ εἴη σοφώτερος he asked whether any one was wiser than I (direct ἔστι τις σοφώτερο;), [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist optative for the aorist indicative, ἠρώτων αὐτὸν εἰ ἀναπλεύσειεν I asked him whether he had set sail (direct ἀνέπλευσα;), [Refs 4th c.BC+]aorist optative usually represents aorist subjunctive, τὸν θεὸν ἐπήροντο εἰ παραδοῖεν Κορινθίοις τὴν πόλιν.. καὶ τιμωρίαν τινὰ πειρῷντ᾽ ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν ποιεῖσθαι they asked whether they should deliver their city to the Corinthians, and should try.., [Refs 5th c.BC+] —in both constructions the _indicative_ or subjunctive may be retained, ψῆφον ἐβούλοντο ἐπαγαγεῖν εἰ χρὴ πολεμεῖν[Refs]; ἐβουλεύοντο εἴτε κατακαύσωσιν.. εἴτε τι ἄλλο χρήσωνται whether they should burn them or should dispose of them in some other way, [Refs]; ἀνακοινοῦσθαι αὐτὸν αὑτῷ εἰ δῷ ἐπιψηφίσαι τοῖς προέδροις [he said that] he consulted him whether he should give.., [Refs 4th c.BC+] __C.4 with OPT. and ἄν when this was the form of the direct question, ἠρώτων εἰ δοῖεν ἂν τούτων τὰ πιστά they asked whether they would give (direct δοιήτε ἄ;), [Refs 5th c.BC+] __C.5 the NEG. used with εἰ in indirect questions is οὐ, when οὐ would be used in the direct question, ἐνετέλλετο.. εἰρωτᾶν εἰ οὔ τι ἐπαισχύνεται whether he is not ashamed, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but if μή would be required in the direct form, it is retained in the indirect, οὐ τοῦτο ἐρωτῶ, ἀλλ᾽ εἰ τοῦ μὲν δικαίου μὴ ἀξιοῖ πλέον ἔχειν μηδὲ βούλεται ὁ δίκαιος, τοῦ δὲ ἀδίκου (the direct question would be μὴ ἀξιοῖ μηδὲ βούλετα; he does not see fit nor wish, does he?) [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—in double indirect questions, εἴτε.. εἴτε..; εἰ.. εἴτε..; εἴτε.. ἢ.., either οὐ or μή can be used in the second clause, ὅπως ἴδῃς εἴτ᾽ ἔνδον εἴτ᾽ οὐκ ἔνδον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰ ἀληθὲς ἢ μή, πειράσομαι μαθεῖν[Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοὺς νόμους καταμανθάνειν εἰ καλῶς κεῖνται ἢ μή.. τοὺς λόγους εἰ ὀρθῶς ὑμᾶς διδάσκουσιν ἢ οὔ [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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