Definition

will be

Etymology

future of G1510 (εἰμί);

Where the KJV renders it

• shall (should) be (have)
• (shall) come (to pass)
• X may have
• X fall
• what would follow
• X live long
• X sojourn

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.