- διότι
- διότι conj. (Hdt.+) (B-D-F §294, 4; 456, 1; Rob. ind.; Meisterhans3-Schw. 252f; Mayser 161; Thackeray 138f; FKälker, Quaest. de Eloc. Polyb. 1880, 243f; 300) a marker used to establish an intimate connection between two statements.① marker of a causal connection between two statements, because (=διὰ τοῦτο ὅτι ‘for the reason that, in view of the fact that’) in causal clauses Lk 2:7; 21:28; Ac 17:31 v.l.; Ro 8:21 v.l. (but s. 4); 1 Cor 15:9; Phil 2:26; 1 Th 2:8; 4:6; Hb 11:5 (Gen 5:24), 23; Js 4:3; Dg 6:5; Hv 3, 5, 4; m 12, 3, 4; Hs 9, 14, 4.② marker used to introduce an inference, therefore (=διὰ τοῦτο) Ac 13:35; 20:26.③ marker used to indicate why someth. just stated can reasonably be considered valid, used in place of ὅτι (TestAbr A 11 p. 90, 6 [Stone p. 28]; TestJob 49:3): for Lk 1:13; Ac 10:20 v.l.; 18:10; 22:18; Ro 1:19–21; 3:20; 8:7; Gal 2:16 v.l.; 1 Th 2:18; 1 Pt 1:16ab (v.l.), 24 (ὅτι P72); 2:6.④ marker of discourse content, that (Teles p. 46, 4; 47, 12; 48, 11; Antig. Car. 149; 152; Diod S 4, 10, 7; 4, 23, 2 al.; Epict. 4, 7, 8; Dio Chrys. 21 [38], 14; Celsus 2, 49; SIG 1169, 24f; Sb 7638, 8 [257 B.C.]; UPZ 15, 24 [156 B.C.] ἐπίγνωσιν διότι=ὅτι; UPZ 16, 15 in a parallel concept of the same petition]; EpArist 151; Jos., Bell. 3, 475, Ant. 15, 142) Ro 8:21 v.l. (s. 1 above).—M-M.
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