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ἐάν

ἐάν, ἐάν, if

ἐάν (so early Attic Inscrr., as IG 1(2).3.20, εἰάν sts. after B.C. 400, ib. 2(2).28.17, cf. PEleph. 1.8, 10 (iv B.C.)), also contr. ἤν and ἄν, v. ἤν, ἄν (B) [ᾱ], which by crasis with καί become κἄν:—
  • if haply, if, regularly folld. by subj.: for its use and for examples, v. εἰ B. ΙΙ, and ἄν (A) B.Ι.1.
    • II in Hellenistic and late Greek, = ἄν after relative Pronouns and Conjunctions, as ὃς ἐάν whosoever, LXX Ge. 15.14, PTeb. 107.8 (ii B. C.), Ev.Matt. 5.19, al.; ὅσος ἐάν PPetr. 3p.120 (iii B.C.), Ev.Matt. 18.18; ὅστις ἐάν Ph. 1.220, M.Ant. 9.23; ὅπου ἐάν Ev.Matt. 8.19, etc.; ὅθεν ἐάν Gp. 1.3.3: folld. by ind., LXX 1 Ki. 2.14. [The second syll. of ἐάν is long, S. OC 1407, Ar. V. 228, Sopat. 6.9.]

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