εἰς

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: Matt 8,23; 9,7, Mark 1,45, Luk 2,15; 8,31, al.;

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

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

(d) Of a limit reached, unto, on, upon: Matt 8,18; 21,1, Mark 11,1; 13,16, Luk 14,10, Joh 6,3; 11,32, al.; with accusative of person(s) (as in Ep. and Ion.), ApG 23,15, Rom 5,12; 16,19, 2 Kor 10,14;

(e) elliptical: ἐπιστολαὶ εἰς Δαμασκόν, ApG 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: Matt 6,26, Mark 6,41, Luk 9,16, 62, Joh 13,22, al.; metaphorically, of the mind, Hebr 11,26; 12,2, al.;

(b) after verbs of speaking: Matt 13,10; 14,9, 1 Thess 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.): Matt 2,23; 4,13, 2 Thess 2,4, 2 Tim 1,11, Hebr 11,9, al.;

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

II. Of time, for, unto;

1. accentuating the duration expressed by the accusative: εἰς τ. αἰῶνα, Matt 21,19 εἰς γενεὰς καὶ γ., Luk 1,50 εἰς τ. διηνεκές, Hebr 7,3, al.

2. Of a point or limit of time, unto, up to, until: Matt 6,34, ApG 4,3; 25,21, Fil 1,10; 2,16, 1 Thess 4,15, 2 Tim 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, ApG 13,42 εἰς τὸ πάλιν (see: πάλιν, 2 Kor 13,2,

III. Of result, after verbs of changing, joining, dividing, etc.: στρέφειν εἰς, Åb 11,6 μετας-, ApG 2,20, Jak 4,9; μεταλλάσσειν, Rom 1,26 σχίζειν εἰς δύο, Matt 27,51, al.; predicatively with εἴναι, ApG 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, 1 Kor 16,1, Ef 3,16, al.; ἀγάπη εἰς, Rom 5,8, al.; χρηστός, Ef 4,32 φρονεῖν εἰς, Rom 12,16 θαρρεῖν, 2 Kor 10,1,

V. Of the end or object: εὔθετος εἰς, Luk 14,34 σόφος, Rom 16,19 ἰσχύειν, Matt 5,13 εἰς τοῦτο, Mark 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.): Matt 20,19, Rom 1,11, 1 Kor 9,18, al.

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