I am

See also: iam, IAM, i-am, -iam, and Iam

English

Originally after Biblical usage (Exodus 3:14), translating Hebrew אֶהְיֶה‎ ('ehyeh).

I am

God, seen as self-sufficient and self-existent.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 3:14:
  And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.
- 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literara, I.13:
  The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
(colloquial, frequently with great) A self-centred, arrogant person.
- 2003, Alasdair Gray, ‘Miss Kincaid's Autumn’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story), p. 751:
  Joe entered and said, ‘Dinner-time. The Great I Am upstairs has grudgingly assented to oxtail soup, bangers and mash, tinned peaches with ice cream.’

I am something or someone

Indicates solidarity or a support of a shared conviction with the person or object upon which a perceived injustice is being inflicted.
I am Charlie Hebdo!

I am Spartacus!

I'm — see I'm

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