Strong G3754G3754Gὅτι

that/since: that

One of the 2 senses of Strong G3754

Transliteration
hoti
Pronunciation
hot'-ee
Morphology
Greek Conjunction

Definition

Neuter of G3748 as conjugation; demonstrative that (sometimes redundant); causatively because: - as concerning that as though because (that) for (that) how (that) (in) that though why.

Detailed definition

ὅτι,
conjc. (prop. neut. of ὅστις).

I. As conjc, introducing an objective clause, that;
1. after verbs of seeing, knowing, thinking, saying, feeling: Mat.3:9 6:32 11:25, Mrk.3:28, Luk.2:49, Jhn.2:22, Act.4:13, Rom.1:13 8:38 10:9, Php.4:15, Jas.2:24, al.; elliptically, Jhn.6:46, Php.3:12, al.

2. After εἶναι (γίνεσθαι): defining a demonstr. or of person(s) pron., Jhn.3:19 16:19, Rom.9:6, 1Jn.3:16 al.; with pron. interrog., Mat.8:27, Mrk.4:41, Luk.4:36, Jhn.4:22 al.; id. elliptically, Luk.2:49, Act.5:4, 9, al.;

3. Untranslatable, before direct discourse (ὅτι recitantis): Mat.7:23, Mrk.2:16, Luk.1:61, Jhn.1:20, Act.15:1, Heb.11:18, al. (on the pleonastic ὡς ὅτι, see: ὡς).

II. As causal particle, for that, because: Mat.5:4-12, Luk.6:20, 21, J0 1:30 5:27, Act.1:5, 1Jn.4:18, Rev.3:10, al. mult.; διὰ τοῦτο ὅτι, Jhn.8:47 10:17, al.; answering a question (διὰ τί), Rom.9:32, al.; οὐκ ὅτι... ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι, Jhn.6:26 12:6.
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3754G appears in 753 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • that558
  • how27
  • because16
  • for9
  • as2
  • when2
  • why2
  • declare1
  • forsomuch1
  • in1
  • intent1
  • say1

First verses

  1. Matthew 2:16
    Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
  2. Matthew 2:22
    But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
  3. Matthew 2:23
    And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
  4. Matthew 3:9
    And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
  5. Matthew 4:6
    And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
  6. Matthew 4:12
    Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;
  7. Matthew 5:17
    Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
  8. Matthew 5:20
    For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
  9. Matthew 5:21
    Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
  10. Matthew 5:22
    But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
  11. Matthew 5:23
    Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
  12. Matthew 5:27
    Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
  13. Matthew 5:28
    But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  14. Matthew 5:32
    But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
  15. Matthew 5:33
    Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
  16. Matthew 5:38
    Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
  17. Matthew 5:43
    Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
  18. Matthew 6:7
    But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
  19. Matthew 6:26
    Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
  20. Matthew 6:29
    And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὅτῐ,
Epic dialect ὅττῐ (both in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))]: conjunction, to introduce an objective clause, that, after Verbs of seeing or knowing, thinking or saying; in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus frequently strengthened ὅτι ῥα, and ὅτι δή:)] —Usage:
I when ὅτι introduces a statement of fact:
I.a in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] always with indicative, the tense following the same rules as in English, ἤγγειλ᾽ ὅττι ῥά οἱ πόσις ἔκτοθι μίμνε πυλάων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.439.)]
I.b in Attic dialect, ὅτι takes indicative after primary tenses, indicative or optative after secondary tenses, e.g. ἐνδείκνυμαι ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι σοφός [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 23b; ᾔσθετο ὅτι τὸ Μένωνος στράτευμα ἤδη ἐν Κιλικίᾳ ἦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.21, compare 2.2.15, +others; ἔλεγον ὅτι οὐκ ὀρθῶς αἱ σπονδαὶ γένοιντο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.61, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 59e, etc.; ἠπείλησ᾽ ὅτι.. βαδιοίμην 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 88: the _indicative_ is frequently retained in the same tense which the speaker used or would have used, ἠγγέλθη.. ὅτι Μέγαρα ἀφέστηκε)] news came that Megara had (literal has) revolted, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.114; ἀποκρινάμενοι ὅτι πέμψουσι [prev. work] 90)]: sometimes optative and indicative are found in the same sentence, ἔλεγον, ὅτι Κῦρος μὲν τέθνηκεν, Ἀριαῖος δὲ πεφευγὼς.. εἴη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.3; Περικλῆς.. προηγόρευε.. ὅτι Ἀρχίδαμος μέν οἱ ξένος εἴη.., τοὺς δ᾽ ἀγροὺς τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ καὶ οἰκίας.., ἀφίησιν αὐτὰ δημόσια εἶναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.13, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 61b, etc.: also ὅτι)].. and the accusative with infinitive are found together, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.13.)]
I.2 when ὅτι introduces a conditional sentence, the Constr. after ὅτι is the same as in independent conditional sentences, εἴ τις ἔροιτο, καθ᾽ ὁποίους νόμους δεῖ πολιτεύεσθαι, δῆλον ὅτι ἀποκρίναισθ᾽ ἄν.. it is manifest that you would answer.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 46.12, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.6.12.)]
II ὅτι is frequently inserted pleonastic in introducing a quotation (where we use no conjunction and put inverted commas), λόγον τόνδε ἐκφαίνει ὁ Πρωτεύς, λέγων ὅτι ἐγὼ εἰ μὴ περὶ πολλοῦ ἡγεύμην.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115)]; καὶ ἐγὼ εἶπον, ὅ. ἡ αὐτή μοι ἀρχή ἐστι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 318a, compare 356a, 361a, etc.)]; even where the quotation consists of one word,[Refs ([prev. work] 330c, “Men.” 74b, 74c.)]
II.2 ὅ. is also used pleonastic with the infinitive and accusative [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (ὡς 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus I.I), εἶπον ὅτι πρῶτον ἐμὲ χρῆναι πειραθῆναι κατ᾽ ἐμαυτόν (which is in fact a mixture of two constructions) [prev. author] “Lg.” 892d, compare “Phd.” 63c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.2.2, etc.)]; but ὅτι has frequently been wrongly inserted by the copyists, as if εἶπεν or λέγουσιν must be followed by it, as in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.37 (om. Papyrus), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.1, etc.)]
III ὅτι in Attic dialect frequently represents a whole sentence, especially in affirmative answers, οὐκοῦν.. τὸ ἀδικεῖν κάκιον ἂν εἴη τοῦ ἀδικεῖσθαι. Answ. δῆλον δὴ ὅτι (i.e. ὅτι κάκιον ἂν εἴη, or ὅτι ταῦτα οὕτως ἔχει) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 475c)]; compare οἶδ᾽ ὅτι, ἴσθ᾽ ὅτι, οἶσθ᾽ ὅτι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 276, 758, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 486a, etc.: hence arose the practice of using δηλονότι (which see) as)] adverb
III.2 what we make the subject of the Verb which follows ὅτι frequently stands in the preceding clause, Αυκάονας δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ εἴδομεν, ὅτι.. καρποῦνται (for εἴδομεν, ὅτι Λυκάονες καρποῦνται) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.23, compare 3.2.29, etc.)]
IV ὅτι sometimes = with regard to the fact that, ὅτι.. οὔ φησι.. ὄνομα εἶναι, ὑποπτεύω αὐτὸν σκώπτειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 384c, compare “Prt.” 330e, etc.)]
V οὐχ ὅ..., ἀλλὰ or ἀλλὰ καὶ.., οὐχ ὅ. ὁ Κρίτων ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ ἦν, ἀλλὰ οἱ φίλοι αὐτοῦ not only [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Crito Medicus)].., but his friends, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.9.8; more fully, οὐ μόνον ὅ. ἄνδρες, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 179b: so followed by ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲ.., ταύτῃ ἀδύνατα ἐξισοῦσθαι οὐχ ὅ. τὰ ἐν τῇ Εὐρώπῃ, ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ)] not only the powers in Europe, but.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97: οὐχ ὅ)]., not followed by a second clause, means although, οὐχ ὅ. παίζει καί φησι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 336d, compare “Grg.” 450e, “Tht.” 157b; compare ὅπως 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus II. 2.)]
V.2 for ὅτι μή, see at {ὅ τι} 11.
B as a causal Particle, for that, because, generally after Verbs of feeling, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.56, 14.407, +others; οὐδὲν ἐκπλαγείς, ὅτι.. εἶδες 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 1.31a)]: but without such a Verb, ὃν περὶ πάσης τῖεν ὁμηλικίης, ὅτι οἱ φρεσὶν ἄρτια ᾔδη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.326, compare 9.76, +others; μάλιστα δ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἐπεκαλέσαντο ὅτι τειχομαχεῖν ἐδόκουν δυνατοὶ εἶναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.102, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.75, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.231; so ὅτιπερ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.14.)]
B.b followed by τί, ὅτι τ; why? (literal because why?) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.214)]; ὅτι τί δ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 136, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 22)]; ὅτι δὴ τί μάλιστ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 343a)]; ὅτι δὴ τί γ; [Refs ([prev. author] “Chrm.” 161c)]; compare ὁτιή.
B.2 seeing that, in giving the reason for saying what is said, γλαυκὴ δέ σε τίκτε θάλασσα.. ὅτι τοι νόος ἐστὶν ἀπηνής as is proved by the fact that.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.35, compare 21.488, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.36. [The last syllable is never elided in _Attic dialect_, probably to avoid confusion with ὅτε: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ὅτ᾽)] (ὅ τ᾽) probably always represents ὅτε (ὅ τε): there are no examples of ὅττ᾽: hiatus after ὅτι is permitted in Comedy texts, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 611, “Ach.” 516.])]