Strong's #2228: e (pronounced ay)
a primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than:--and, but (either), (n-)either, except it be, (n-)or (else), rather, save, than, that, what, yea. Often used in connection with other particles. Compare especially 2235, 2260, 2273.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
̓́
ē
1) either, or, than
Part of Speech: particle
Relation: a primary particle of distinction between two connected terms
Usage:
This word is used 355 times:
1 Corinthians 9:10: " Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt,"
1 Corinthians 9:15: "it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void."
1 Corinthians 10:19: "the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?"
1 Corinthians 10:22: " Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?"
1 Corinthians 11:4: "Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered,"
1 Corinthians 11:5: "every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth"
1 Corinthians 11:6: "it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered."
1 Corinthians 11:14: " Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if"
1 Corinthians 11:22: "houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church"
1 Corinthians 11:27: "whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the"
1 Corinthians 12:21: "I have no need of thee: nor again the head"
1 Corinthians 13:1: "I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."
1 Corinthians 14:5: "for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh, with tongues, except"
1 Corinthians 14:6: "except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by"
1 Corinthians 14:6: "either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by"
1 Corinthians 14:6: "or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by"
1 Corinthians 14:6: "or by prophesying, or by doctrine?"
1 Corinthians 14:7: "how shall it be known what is piped or harped?"
1 Corinthians 14:19: "by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."
1 Corinthians 14:23: "and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that"
1 Corinthians 14:24: "there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all,"
1 Corinthians 14:27: "in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and"
1 Corinthians 14:29: "the prophets speak two or three, and let the other"
1 Corinthians 14:36: " What? came the word of God out from you? or"
1 Corinthians 14:36: "of God out from you? or came it unto you only?"
1 Corinthians 14:37: "think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that"
1 Corinthians 15:37: "it may chance of wheat, or of some other"
1 Corinthians 16:6: "And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you,"
2 Corinthians 1:13: "none other things unto you, than what ye read or"
2 Corinthians 1:13: "than what ye read or acknowledge; and"
2 Corinthians 1:17: "was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose,"
2 Corinthians 3:1: "of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?"
2 Corinthians 6:15: "hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"
2 Corinthians 9:7: "in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for"
2 Corinthians 10:12: "we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some"
2 Corinthians 11:4: "whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which"
2 Corinthians 11:4: "which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not"
2 Corinthians 11:7: " Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that ye might be exalted,"
2 Corinthians 12:6: "that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me."
2 Corinthians 13:5: "faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,"
2 Corinthians 13:5: "Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is"
Galatians 1:8: "But though we, or an angel from heaven,"
Galatians 1:10: "do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please"
Galatians 1:10: "men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for"
Galatians 2:2: "privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain."
Galatians 3:2: "by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"
Galatians 3:5: "you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"
Galatians 3:15: "yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto."
Galatians 4:27: "many more children than she which hath a husband."
Ephesians 3:20: "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according"
