ἔξεστιν

ἔξεστιν impers. verb, 3 sg. of the unused ἔξειμι; fut. ἐξέσται LXX (Eur., Hdt. et al.; LXX; ParJer 5:20; Just., A I, 66, 1; Ath.)

① to be authorized for the doing of someth., it is right, is authorized, is permitted, is proper.

ⓐ w. pres. inf. foll. (Lucian, Jud. 3; Esth 8:12g; 4 Macc 1:12; Ath. 32, 2 al.). Mt 12:2, 12; 14:4. W. aor. inf. foll. (X., An. 4, 3, 10; Ath. 6:3 al.) Mt 12:10; 15:26 D; 19:3; 22:17; 27:6; Mk 3:4 (ἔξεστιν … ἤ); 12:14; Lk 6:9; 14:3. Without inf., which is easily supplied fr. the context (cp. PRyl 77, 43 τοῦτο δὲ οὐκ ἐξῆν; Ath. 16, 3) Mk 2:24; Lk 6:2; Ac 8:36 [37] v.l.; 1 Cor 10:23.

ⓑ foll. by dat. of pers. and pres. inf. (X., Hiero 1, 26; BGU 1127, 20 [18 B.C.]; PSI 203, 7; Jos., Ant. 13, 252) Mk 6:18; Ac 16:21; 22:25; GJs 2:2. Foll. by dat. of pers. and aor. inf. (2 Esdr 4:14; 1 Macc 14:44) Mt 20:15; Mk 10:2; J 5:10; 18:31 (JAllen, Why Pilate?: CMoule Festschr., ’70, 78–83; on the legal issues s. also SSafrai, CRINT I/1, 397–400); Ac 21:37; GJs 1:2; 2:2.—Foll. by dat. of pers. without the necessity of supplying an inf. (PRyl 62, 16 πάντα τὰ ἄλλα ἔξεστί μοι) 1 Cor 6:12.

ⓒ foll. by acc. w. inf. (Pla., Pol., 290d al.) Mk 2:26; Lk 6:4 (s. B-D-F §409, 3; Rob. 1084f); 20:22.

ⓓ the ptc. of ἐ. is ἐξόν; by the addition of the copula, which must oft. be understood (as Isaeus 6, 50; Jos., Ant. 8, 404), it comes to mean the same as ἔξεστιν: w. pres. inf. foll. ISm 8:2; foll. by dat. of pers. and aor. inf. 2 Cor 12:4; PEg² 48 (cp. Just., A I, 66, 1). ἐ. ἦν w. dat., and aor. inf. (Esth 4:2; Jos., Ant. 20, 202) Mt 12:4. W. dat., and inf. to be supplied μὴ εἶναι ἐ. αὖτῷ he had no authority MPol 12:2.

② to be within the range of possibility, it is possible the ptc. of ἐ. (s. above) w. aor. inf. foll. Ac 2:29—B. 647. M-M. TW.