“a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb;”
Definition
Strong’s Definition
I exist (used only when emphatic)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
to be, to exist, Jn. 1:1; 17:5; Mt. 6:30; Lk. 4:25, freq.; ἐστί[ν], it is possible, proper, Heb. 9:5; a simple linking verb (“copula”) to the subject and predicate, and therefore in itself affecting the force of the sentence only by its tense, mood, etc., Jn. 1:1; 15:1, freq.; it also forms a frequent circumlocution with the participles of the present and perfect of other verbs, Mt. 19:22; Mk. 2:6
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
the first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb;
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“Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter unde…”
— Luke 7:6