Midvash

ὅτιhóti

demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because

Greek (New Testament) · G3754

Meanings

I. As conjc, introducing an objective clause, that

1. after verbs of seeing, knowing, thinking, saying, feeling: Matthew 3:9, Matthew 6:32, Matthew 11:25, Mark 3:28, Luke 2:49, John 2:22, Acts 4:13, Romans 1:13, Romans 8:38, Romans 10:9, Philippians 4:15, James 2:24, and elsewhere; elliptically, John 6:46, Philippians 3:12, and elsewhere

2. After εἶναι (γίνεσθαι): defining a demonstr. or person pron., John 3:19, John 16:19, Romans 9:6, 1 John 3:16 and elsewhere; with pron. interrog., Matthew 8:27, Mark 4:41, Luke 4:36, John 4:22 and elsewhere; id. elliptically, Luke 2:49, Acts 5:4, Acts 5:9, and elsewhere

3. Untranslatable, before direct discourse (ὅτι recitantis): Matthew 7:23, Mark 2:16, Luke 1:61, John 1:20, Acts 15:1, Hebrews 11:18, and elsewhere (on the pleonastic ὡς ὅτι, see ὡς).

II. As causal particle, for that, because: Matthew 5:4-12, Luke 6:20, Luke 6:21, John 1:30, John 5:27, Acts 1:5, 1 John 4:18, Revelation 3:10, and elsewhere many times; διὰ τοῦτο ὅτι, John 8:47, John 10:17, and elsewhere; answering a question (διὰ τί), Romans 9:32, and elsewhere; οὐκ ὅτι... ἀλλ’ ὅτι, John 6:26, John 12:6.

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 1,266 times in the Bible.

  • Matthew 2:16 Herod was furious when he realized that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, based on the wise men’s report of the star’s first appearance.
  • Matthew 2:18 “A cry was heard in Ramah— weeping and great mourning. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted, for they are dead.”
  • Matthew 2:22 But when he learned that the new ruler of Judea was Herod’s son Archelaus, he was afraid to go there. Then, after being warned in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee.
  • Matthew 2:23 So the family went and lived in a town called Nazareth. This fulfilled what the prophets had said: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
  • Matthew 3:9 Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.
  • Matthew 4:6 and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’”
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Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.