εἰμί
eimi
exist
Appears 29,298 times across Aristotle's works.
in Aristotle 28,269× · before him 15,539 · contemporaries 47,028
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Metaphysics 4,199 ▸
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Chapter 23 84b3–85a12Chapter 24 85a13–86a30Chapter 25 86a31–86b39Chapter 32 88a18–88b29Chapter 33 88b30–89b9Book II 575 ▸
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Meteorology 851 ▸
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On Generation and Corruption 756 ▸
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De Anima 731 ▸
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Sophistical Refutations 583 ▸
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On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias 495 ▸
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Poetics 316 ▸
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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 153 ▸
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Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
Index Aristotelicus. Hermann Bonitz's sense-by-sense analysis of
εἰμί — with the passages
he singles out as decisive for each meaning — will appear here. That curated,
interpretive selection is the layer LSJ and a raw concordance don't provide.
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