Strong's #1498: eien (pronounced i'-ane)

optative (i.e. English subjunctive) present of 1510 (including the other person); might (could, would, or should) be:--mean, + perish, should be, was, were.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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eiēn

1) to be, to exist, to happen, to be present

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: optative (i.e. English subjunctive) present of G1510 (including the other person)

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Luke 1:29: "what manner of salutation this should be."
Luke 3:15: "hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;"
Luke 8:9: "What might this parable be?"
Luke 9:46: "them, which of them should be greatest."
Luke 15:26: "asked what these things meant."
Luke 18:36: "he asked what it meant."
Luke 22:23: "of them it was that should do this thing."
John 13:24: "to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake."
Acts 8:20: "him, Thy money perish with thee,"
Acts 10:17: "this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the"
Acts 21:33: "and demanded who he was, and what he had"
Revelation 3:15: "nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."