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ὅτι

hotithat/since: thatHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentConjunction1,305 occurrences27 books1,196 verses

Definition

ὅτι,

conjc. (prop. neut. of ὅστις).

I. As conjc, introducing an objective clause, that;

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

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

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, al. (on the pleonastic ὡς ὅτι, see: ὡς).

II. As causal particle, for that, because: Matthew 5:4-12, Luke 6:20, 21, J0 1:30 5:27, Acts 1:5, 1 John 4:18, Revelation 3:10, al. mult.; διὰ τοῦτο ὅτι, John 8:47; 10:17, al.; answering a question (διὰ τί), Romans 9:32, al.; οὐκ ὅτι . . . ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι, John 6:26; 12:6.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as ὅτι:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,305 total
  1. John 12:50ὅτι · that
    And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
  2. John 13:1ὅτι · that
    It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
  3. John 13:3ὅτι · that; ὅτι · that
    Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.
  4. John 13:11ὅτι
    For He knew who would betray Him. That is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”
  5. John 13:19ὅτι · that
    I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.
  6. John 13:21ὅτι
    After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
  7. John 13:29ὅτι · that
    Since Judas kept the money bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.
  8. John 13:33ὅτι
    Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
  9. John 13:35ὅτι · that
    By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
  10. John 14:2ὅτι · that
    In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
  11. John 14:10ὅτι · that
    Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
  12. John 14:11ὅτι · that
    Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.
  13. John 14:12ὅτι · because
    Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
  14. John 14:13ὅ¦τι · whatever
    And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  15. John 14:17ὅτι · because; ὅτι · for
    …the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
  16. John 14:19ὅτι · Because
    In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
  17. John 14:20ὅτι · that
    On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
  18. John 14:22ὅτι
    Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
  19. John 14:28ὅτι; ὅτι · that; ὅτι · because
    You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
  20. John 14:31ὅτι · that
    But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
  21. John 15:5ὅτι · For
    I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
  22. John 15:15ὅτι · for; ὅτι · because
    No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
  23. John 15:16ὅ¦τι · whatever
    You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
  24. John 15:18ὅτι · that
    If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
  25. John 15:19ὅτι · because
    If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
  26. John 15:21ὅτι · since
    But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
  27. John 15:25ὅτι
    But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
  28. John 15:27ὅτι · because
    And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
  29. John 16:3ὅτι · because
    They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
  30. John 16:4ὅτι · that; ὅτι · because
    But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
  31. John 16:6ὅτι · because
    Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.
  32. John 16:9ὅτι · because
    …in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;
  33. John 16:10ὅτι · because
    …in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;
  34. John 16:11ὅτι · because
    …and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.
  35. John 16:14ὅτι
    He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.
  36. John 16:15ὅτι · that
    Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.
  37. John 16:17Ὅτι · Because
    Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”
  38. John 16:19ὅτι · that; ὅτι
    Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?
  39. John 16:20ὅτι
    Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
  40. John 16:21ὅτι · because; ὅτι · that
    A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
  41. John 16:26ὅτι · that
    In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
  42. John 16:27ὅτι · because
    For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.