eis G1519

εἰς (eis) means “toward” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

εἰς Greek · G1519 1,750 tagged occurrences in 1,497 verses

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TBESG · G1519

εἰς · eis · toward

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: Mat.8:23, 9:7, Mrk.1:45, Luk.2:15, 8:31, al.; (b) of approach, to or towards: Mrk.11:1, Luk.6:8, 19:28, Jhn.11:31, 21:6, al.; (with) before pl. and collective nouns, among: Mrk.4:7, 8:19, 20, Luk.11:49, Jhn.21:23, al.; (d) Of a limit reached, unto, on, upon: Mat.8:18, 21:1, Mrk.11:1, 13:16, Luk.14:10, Jhn.6:3, 11:32, al.; with accusative of person(s) (as in Ep. and Ion.), Act.23:15, Rom.5:12, 16:19, 2Co.10:14; (e) elliptical: ἐπιστολαὶ εἰς Δαμασκόν, Act.9:2; ἡ διακονία μου ἡ εἰς Ἱ., Rom.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: Mat.6:26, Mrk.6:41, Luk.9:16, 62, Jhn.13:22, al.; metaphorically, of the mind, Heb.11:26, 12:2, al.; (b) after verbs of speaking: Mat.13:10, 14:9, 1Th.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.): Mat.2:23, 4:13, 2Th.2:4, 2Ti.1:11, Heb.11:9, al.; (b) by an assimilation general in late Gk (see Bl., M, Pr., ll. with) = ἐν: Luk.1:44, 4:23, Act.20:16, 21:17, Jhn.1:18 (but see Westc, in l.), al. II. Of time, for, unto; 1. accentuating the duration expressed by the accusative: εἰς τ. αἰῶνα, Mat.21:19; εἰς γενεὰς καὶ γ., Luk.1:50; εἰς τ. διηνεκές, Heb.7:3, al. 2. Of a point or limit of time, unto, up to, until: Mat.6:34, Act.4:3, 25:21, Php.1:10, 2:16, 1Th.4:15, 2Ti.1:12; of entrance into a future period, σεις τὸ μέλλον (see: μέλλω), next (year), Luk.13:9 (but with ICC, in l.); εἰς τ. μεταξὺ σάββατον, on the next Sabbath, Act.13:42; εἰς τὸ πάλιν (see: πάλιν, 2Co.13:2. III. Of result, after verbs of changing, joining, dividing, etc.: στρέφειν εἰς, Rev.11:6; μετας-, Act.2:20, Jas.4:9; μεταλλάσσειν, Rom.1:26; σχίζειν εἰς δύο, Mat.27:51, al.; predicatively with εἴναι, Act.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.): Luk.7:30, Rom.4:20, 15:2, 26, 1Co.16:1, Eph.3:16, al.; ἀγάπη εἰς, Rom.5:8, al.; χρηστός, Eph.4:32; φρονεῖν εἰς, Rom.12:16; θαρρεῖν, 2Co.10:1. V. Of the end or object: εὔθετος εἰς, Luk.14:34; σόφος, Rom.16:19; ἰσχύειν, Mat.5:13; εἰς τοῦτο, Mrk.1:38, al.; ἀφορίζειν εἰς, Rom.1:1; indicating purpose, εἰς φόβον, Rom.8:15; εἰς ἔνδειξιν, Rom.3:25; εἰς τό, with inf. (= ἵνα or ὥστε; Bl., §71, 5; M, Pr., 218ff.): Mat.20:19, Rom.1:11, 1Co.9:18, al. VI. Adverbial phrases: εἰς τέλος, εἰς τὸ πάλιν, etc (see: τέλος, πάλιν, etc.). (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

into, in, unto, to, upon, towards, for, among.

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How translators render G1519

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
to	467
into	296
in	177
for	127
vvv	96
on	44
at	32
as	30
so that	19
against	18
among	11
of	6
about	5
and	4
brought	4
leading to	4
over	4
that	4
throughout	4
until	4
why	4
with	4
and so	3
are for	3
before	3
in order that	3
so	3
the	3
to the	3
toward	3
and are	2
and gone into	2
and into	2
back in	2
back to	2
because he is	2
by	2
forever	2
in dealing with	2
on to	2
onto	2
so as	2
to be	2
to bring	2
to please	2
under	2
where	2
actually brought	1
ahead	1
and are turning to	1
and brought into	1
and came to	1
and went into	1
are inclined to	1
as a result	1
as to	1
away to	1
bound for	1
but to bring	1
concerning	1
consequently	1
doing	1
down into	1
endures forever	1
entered	1
escalating	1
extends	1
filled with	1
for gods own	1
for the	1
for to	1
goes back to her	1
he entered	1
how	1
in him	1
in leading	1
in order	1
in order to	1
in order to bring	1
in order to lead	1
in order to meet	1
in your	1
inside	1
is destined for	1
is for	1
it goes into	1
leads to	1
led you to	1
meant to bring	1
meet	1
my purpose	1
off into	1
on my way to	1
out of	1
over to	1
serves as	1
should use	1
so that you may have	1
so then	1
straight	1
that is why	1
that leads to	1
that would have	1
the promise	1
then	1
this is why	1
to advance	1
to bring you	1
to call	1
to cause	1
to come	1
to its	1
to keep	1
to lead us	1
to look into	1
to make	1
to preach	1
to speak	1
to the increase	1
to this	1
to this end	1
to win	1
unto	1
up on	1
upon	1
we went to	1
will meet	1
will suffer	1
with her perpetual requests	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
into	571
to	336
unto	207
for	147
in	136
on	57
toward	28
against	27
that	27
upon	23
at	20
among	16
of	7
throughout	6
concerning	5
one	5
the head	5
back	4
therein	4
whereunto	4
before	3
by	3
forth	3
to the end	3
up to	3
wherein	3
again	2
continually	2
ever	2
home	2
ship	2
so that	2
the person	2
therefore	2
thereunto	2
to be	2
up	2
wherefore	2
with	2
a god	1
a great	1
a living	1
a people	1
a quickening	1
a recompence	1
a snare	1
a stumblingblock	1
a trap	1
abroad	1
after that	1
amen	1
are	1
as	1
at home	1
backward	1
believest thou	1
but	1
even	1
fountains	1
from	1
grew	1
henceforward for	1
home again	1
in among	1
in at	1
it	1
mad	1
made	1
me	1
more exceeding	1
my	1
neither	1
never	1
of against	1
out	1
over unto	1
people	1
shipping	1
soberly	1
that form	1
that i abuse	1
that we	1
that ye should	1
the church	1
the face	1
the fowls	1
the minds	1
the next	1
the record	1
them	1
thereinto	1
those things which are offered to idols	1
till	1
to him	1
to make	1
to the intent	1
until	1
up to be	1
what	1
whereinto	1
whereto	1
wherewith one may edify	1
while	1
whither	1
why	1
wormwood	1

Verses containing G1519

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Acts 2:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Acts 2:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
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Acts 3:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
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Acts 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
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Acts 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.
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Acts 3:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Peter looked directly at him, as did John. “Look at us!” said Peter.
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Acts 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.
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Acts 4:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
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Acts 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
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Acts 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in this name.”
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Acts 4:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
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Acts 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
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Acts 5:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
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Acts 5:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.
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Acts 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
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Acts 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,
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Acts 6:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
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Acts 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
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Acts 7:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.
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Acts 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
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Acts 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
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Acts 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
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Acts 7:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.
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Acts 7:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
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Acts 7:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
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Acts 7:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
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Acts 7:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
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Acts 7:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
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Acts 7:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
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Acts 7:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
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Acts 7:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
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Acts 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
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Acts 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
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Acts 8:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
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Acts 8:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
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Acts 8:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
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Acts 8:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.
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Acts 8:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
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Acts 8:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
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Acts 8:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
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Acts 8:40 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But Philip appeared at Azotus and traveled through that region, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
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Acts 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest
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Acts 9:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
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Acts 9:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
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Acts 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could not see a thing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus.
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Acts 9:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
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Acts 9:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
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Acts 9:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
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Acts 9:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul stayed with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.
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Acts 9:30 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
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