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Strong's G2070 ἐσμέν (esmen)

Esmen means “are” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2070 — zebub (“fly”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2070
Language Greek
Linked Usages 52
Books 14

Strong's G2070 Quick Answer

Strong's G2070 ἐσμέν (esmen) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. esmen (es-men') v. 1. we are [first person plural indicative of G1510] It has 52 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include are, be, and was. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Meaning
esmen (es-men') v. 1. we are [first person plural indicative of G1510]
Usage
52 linked usages
Books
14 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Usage Words
are, be, and was

Meaning and Definition

esmen (es-men') v. 1. we are [first person plural indicative of G1510] KJV: are, be, have our being, X have hope, + (the gospel) was (preached unto) us Root(s): G1510

Original Word
ἐσμέν
Transliteration
esmen
Derivation
Root: εἰμί R1: 1510
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2070. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

we are

Usage: εἰμί, with various uses and significations, like the English verb to be. __I. As substantive verb. __1. Of persons and things, to be, exist: Act.17:28, Jhn.1:1, 8:58, 17:5, al; ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν (for past ptcp.), Rev.1:4, 8, 4:8, 11:17, 16:5 (see Swete, Ap., 5; M, Pr., 228); τὰ (μὴ) ὄντα, Rom.4:17, 1Co.1:28. __2. Of times, events, etc., to be, happen, take place: Mat.24:3, Mrk.14:2, 15:42, Luk.21:23, Jhn.4:6, 23, 5:10, al. __3.

to be present, be in a place, have come: Mat.2:13, 15, Mrk.1:45, 5:21, 15:40, Luk.1:80, 5:29, Jhn.7:30, al.; before εἰς, Mrk.2:1; before ἐκ, (ἐξ), Mat.1:20, 21:25, Mrk.11:30, Jhn.3:31, al. __4. Impers., ἔστι, ἦν, etc.; __(a) there is (Fr. il y a), was, etc.: Mat.16:28, Luk.16:19, Jhn.3:1, 5:2, Rom.3:10, al.; with dative (of the possessor; Bl., §37, 3), Mat.16:22, Luk.1:7, Jhn.18.10, Rom.9:2, al.; ἔστιν ὅς, ὅστις (chiefly in pl), Mat.16:28, 19:2, Mrk.9:1, al.;

__(b) with inf., = ἔξεστιν (which see), it is possible: Heb.9:5, 1Co.11:20, RV (but see ICC, in l.). __II. As copula uniting subject and predicate. __1. Expressing simply identity or equivalence: Mat.5:13, 14:15, Luk.1:18, 19, Jhn.1:1, 4:19, Rev.3:9, al. mult. __2. Explicative, as in parable, figure, type, etc.: Mat.13:19, 1Co.9:2, 10:4, 11:25, Gal.4:24, Rev.17:15, al.; ταῦτ᾽ ἔστιν, Mat.27:46, Mrk.7:2, Rom.7:18 al.; ὅ ἐστιν, Mrk.3:17, Col.1:24, Heb.7:2, al.;

akin to this is the sacramental usage: Mat.26:26-28, Mrk.14:22, 24, Luk.22:19, 1Co.11:24 (see ICC on Mk, I Co, ll. with; DB, iii, 148 f.). __3. C. genitive: qual., etc., Mrk.5:42, Luk.3:23, 1Co.14:33, Heb.12:11, al.; part., 1Ti.1:20, 2Ti.1:15; poss., Mat.5:3, 10, Mrk.12:7, Luk.4:7; of service or partisanship, Rom.8:9, 1Co.1:12, 2Co.10:7, 2Ti.2:19. __4. C. dative (BL, §37, 3): Act.1:8, 9:15, Rom.4:12, 1Co.1:18, 2:14, Rev.21:7, al. __5. C. ptcp., as a periphrasis for the simple verb (Bl., §62, 1, 2; M, Pr., 225 ff.);

__(a) with ptcp. pf. (cl.): Mat.10:30, Luk.9:32, Jhn.3:24, Act.21:35, 1Co.15:19, al; __(b) with ptcp. pr. (esp. in impf., as in Heb. and Aram.; Dalman, Words, 35 f.), Mat.7:29, Mrk.1:22, Luk.4:31, 14:1, Act.1:10, al. mult., id. for imper. (M, Pr., 180f., 182f.), with ellipsis of εἰμί, Rom.12:9, 10, Heb.13:5, al.; __(with) with ptcp. aor. (cl), Luk.23:9. __6. Seq. εἰς (cf. Heb. הָיָה לְ), a vernac. usage (M, Pr., 71): Mat.19:5, Mrk.10:8, Heb.8:10, al. __7. C. adv.: Mat.19:20, Mrk.4:26, Luk.18:11, al. __8. Ellipses;

__(a) of the copula (Bl., §30, 3): Mat.8:29, 24:32, Jhn.21:22, 23, Heb.6:4, al.; __(b) of the predicate: ἐγώ εἰμί, Mat.14:27, Mrk.6:50, al.; absol. (cf. Deu.32:39; אֲנִי הוּא), Mrk.13:6, Jhn.4:26, al. (cf. ἄπ-, ἔν-, πάρ-, συμ-πάρ-, σύν-ειμι). (AS)

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How Strong's G2070 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render esmen, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

are Mark 5:9 49× be John 8:33 was Hebrews 4:2

How Strong's G2070 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 51 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2070 (ἐσμέν) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2070 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2070 in the New Testament

51 indexed usages in New Testament.

Mark 5:9 KJV

And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

Luke 9:12 KJV

And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.

Luke 17:10 KJV

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Strong's G2070 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 4:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And now thou art cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.

Usage Excerpts

First 52 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2070.

Genesis 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now thou art cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.
Mark 5:9 New Testament, KJV
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
Luke 9:12 New Testament, KJV
And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
Luke 17:10 New Testament, KJV
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
John 8:33 New Testament, KJV
They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John 9:28 New Testament, KJV
Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
John 9:40 New Testament, KJV
And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
John 10:30 New Testament, KJV
I and my Father are one.
John 17:22 New Testament, KJV
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Acts 2:32 New Testament, KJV
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 3:15 New Testament, KJV
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Acts 5:32 New Testament, KJV
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Acts 10:39 New Testament, KJV
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Acts 14:15 New Testament, KJV
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
Acts 16:28 New Testament, KJV
But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
Acts 17:28 New Testament, KJV
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts 23:15 New Testament, KJV
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Romans 6:15 New Testament, KJV
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Romans 8:12 New Testament, KJV
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans 8:16 New Testament, KJV
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Romans 12:5 New Testament, KJV
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Romans 14:8 New Testament, KJV
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
1 Corinthians 3:9 New Testament, KJV
For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
1 Corinthians 10:17 New Testament, KJV
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
1 Corinthians 10:22 New Testament, KJV
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians 15:19 New Testament, KJV
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
2 Corinthians 1:14 New Testament, KJV
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:24 New Testament, KJV
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
2 Corinthians 2:15 New Testament, KJV
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
2 Corinthians 2:17 New Testament, KJV
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:5 New Testament, KJV
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
2 Corinthians 10:11 New Testament, KJV
Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
2 Corinthians 13:6 New Testament, KJV
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
Galatians 3:25 New Testament, KJV
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Galatians 4:28 New Testament, KJV
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Galatians 4:31 New Testament, KJV
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Ephesians 2:10 New Testament, KJV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 4:25 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 5:30 New Testament, KJV
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Philippians 3:3 New Testament, KJV
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 New Testament, KJV
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Hebrews 3:6 New Testament, KJV
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Hebrews 4:2 New Testament, KJV
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Hebrews 10:10 New Testament, KJV
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:39 New Testament, KJV
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
1 John 2:5 New Testament, KJV
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1 John 3:2 New Testament, KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1 John 3:19 New Testament, KJV
And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
1 John 4:6 New Testament, KJV
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:17 New Testament, KJV
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1 John 5:19 New Testament, KJV
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
1 John 5:20 New Testament, KJV
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2070, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
John 5 usages, New Testament
Acts 8 usages, New Testament
Romans 5 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 4 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 7 usages, New Testament
Galatians 3 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 3 usages, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 4 usages, New Testament
1 John 7 usages, New Testament

Strong's G2070 FAQ

What does esmen (ἐσμέν) mean?

Esmen (Strong's G2070) is a Greek word most simply glossed "are". esmen (es-men') v. 1. we are [first person plural indicative of G1510]

How many times is esmen (ἐσμέν) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 52 linked usages for Strong's G2070 across 14 books.

Where can I study esmen (ἐσμέν) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2070 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

What English words translate esmen (ἐσμέν)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as are, be, and was. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2070 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2070, with linked reader references where each row is available.