1510.  Strong's Dictionary Study

1510. eimi {i-mee'}; the first person singular present

indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I

exist (used only when emphatic): --am, have been, X it is I, was.

 See also 1488, 1498, 1511, 1527, 2258, 2071, 2070, 2075, 2076,

2771, 2468, 5600.[ql

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