dia G1223

διά (dia) means “through/because of” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

διά Greek · G1223 666 tagged occurrences in 599 verses

Pronunciation guide: dee-ah' Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G1223

διά · dia · through/because of

διά (before a vowel δ᾽, exc. Rom.8:10, 2Co.5:7, and in (Proper name)s; Tdf., Pr., 94), prep. with genitive, accusative, as in cl.; 1. with genitive, through; (i) of Place, after verbs of motion or action: Mat.2:12 12:43, Mrk.2:23, Luk.4:30, Jhn.4:4, 2Co.11:33, al.; σώζεσθαι (διας-) δ. πυρός, ὕδατος, 1Co.3:15, 1Pe.3:20; βλέπειν δ. ἐσόπτρου, 1Co.13:12; metaphorically, of a state or condition: Rom.14:20, 2Co.2:4 5:7, 10; δ. γράμματος, ἀκροβυστίας (Lft., Notes, 263, 279), Rom.2:27 4:11; δι ̓ὑπομενῆς, Rom.8:25. (ii) Of Time; (a) during which: Mat.26:61, Mrk.14:58, Luk.5:5; δ. παντὸς τοῦ ζῆν, Heb.2:15; δ. παντός (διαπαντός in Mrk.5:5, Luk.24:53), always, continually, Mat.18:10, Act.2:25" (LXX) 10:2 24:16, Rom.11:10" (LXX), 2Th.3:16, Heb.9:6 13:15. (b) within which: Act.1:3; δ. νυκτός, Act.5:19 16:9 17:10 23:31; (with) after which (Field, Notes, 20; Abbott, JG, 255f.): Mrk.2:1, Act.24:17, Gal.2:1. (iii) Of the Means or Instrument; (1) of the efficient cause (regarded also as the instrument): of God, Rom.11:36, 1Co.1:9, Gal.4:7, Heb.2:10 7:21; of Christ, Rom.1:8 5:1, 17, 1Co.15:21, 1Pe.4:11, al.; δ. τ. ὑμῶν δεήσεως, Rom.1:12, 2Co.1:4, Gal.4:23, al.; (2) of the agent, instrument or means; (a) with genitive of person(s), Mat.11:2, Luk.1:70, Jhn.1:17, Act.1:16, Rom.2:16, 1Co.1:21, Eph.1:5, Heb.2:14, Rev.1:1, al.; ὑπὸ τ. κυρίου δ. τ. προφήτου (δ. τ. κυρίου, 1Th.4:2 (M, Th., in l.); Lft., Rev., 121f.), Mat.1:22 2:15, Rom.1:2; δ. ἐπιστολῆς ὡς δ. ἡμῶν (Field, Notes, 202), 2Th.2:2; δ. Σ. (NTD, 22), 1Pe.5:12; (b) with genitive of thing(s) (where often the simple dative is used in cl.; Jannaris, Gr., 375), Jhn.11:4, Act.5:12; δ. τ. πίστεως, Rom.3:30; δ. λόγου θεοῦ, 1Pe.1:23; δ. παραβολῆς, Luk.8:4; δουλεύειν δ. τ. ἀγάπης, Gal.5:13; δ. ἐπαγγελίας, Gal.3:18, 2. C. accusative; (i) rarely, as with genitive, through (Hom), δ. μέσον Σαμαρίας (ICC, in l.; Bl., §42, 1; Robertson, Gr., 581), Luk.17:11. (ii) by reason of, because of, for the sake of; (a) with accusative of person(s) (M, Pr., 105), Mrk.2:27, Jhn.6:57 11:42, Rom.8:20; (b) with accusative of thing(s), δ. φθόνον, Mat.27:18, Mrk.15:10; δ. φόβον, Jhn.7:13 20:19; δ. ἀγάπην, Eph.2:4; δ. τοῦτο, freq., for this cause, therefore, Mat.6:25, Mrk.6:14, Luk.11:49, Jhn.6:65, al.; id. before ὅτι, Jhn.5:16 10:17, al.; δ. τί, why, Mat.9:11, 14 Mrk.2:18, Jhn.7:45, al.; δ. τό, with inf., Mrk.5:4, Luk.9:7, Jas.4:2. 3. In composition, (1) through, as in διαβαίνω; (2) of separation, asunder, as in διασπάω; (3) of distribution, abroad, as in διαγγέλλω; (4) of transition, as διαλλάσσω; (5) of "perfective" action (M, Pr., 112f., 115f.), as διαφύγω, διακαθαρίζω. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

(a) gen: through, throughout, by the instrumentality of, (b) acc: through, on account of, by reason of, for the sake of, because of.

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How translators render G1223

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
through	192
by	81
because of	55
for	37
because	29
why	22
therefore	18
vvv	18
in	14
for this reason	12
with	12
for the sake of	10
on account of	8
that is why	6
for your sake	4
is why	4
out of	4
the reason	4
always	3
from	3
on	3
sake	3
since	3
so	3
after	2
at	2
because it was	2
but because of	2
during	2
for your benefit	2
later	2
of	2
regularly	2
so then	2
throughout	2
among	1
and because of	1
and so	1
and through	1
and you by	1
aroused by	1
as a matter of	1
as in	1
because of this	1
but because	1
by so doing	1
by the authority of	1
by way of	1
came through	1
came with	1
comes through	1
compared to	1
continually	1
due to	1
endure	1
even though you have	1
for my benefit	1
for the benefit of	1
for this very reason	1
given through	1
he went through	1
how is it that	1
in answer to	1
is born of	1
is through	1
it is for this purpose	1
it is through	1
it was because of	1
kept	1
led	1
merely brings	1
on our behalf	1
on the basis of	1
on your account	1
over	1
over a span	1
said much	1
that	1
that is also why	1
that was why	1
the faith and love proceeding from	1
the result of	1
this is also why	1
this is why	1
this mystery is that through	1
though	1
through a window	1
to	1
to avoid	1
to be from	1
to hear	1
was born through	1
why do	1
why is it that	1
why not	1
with the help of	1
yet for your sake	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
by	243
for	115
through	91
because	38
therefore	36
why	19
with	16
because of	14
wherefore	14
sake	13
in	8
cause	7
sakes	5
throughout	5
of	4
thereby	4
after	3
always	3
by reason of	3
that	3
all	2
because that	2
whereby	2
among	1
and by	1
another	1
at	1
briefly	1
by occasion	1
by reason hereof	1
for the	1
from	1
glorious	1
in at	1
is by	1
out	1
seeing	1
seeing that by	1
that by reason of	1
that through	1
then	1
thereat	1
though they be	1
to	1
to avoid fornication	1
whiles	1
why do	1
within	1
yet for	1

Verses containing G1223

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Acts 28:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.
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Acts 28:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
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Acts 28:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
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Romans 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,
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Romans 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
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Romans 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.
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Romans 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.
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Romans 1:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
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Romans 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
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Romans 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
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Romans 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
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Romans 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
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Romans 2:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
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Romans 3:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
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Romans 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
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Romans 3:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 3:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences
God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
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Romans 3:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
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Romans 3:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
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Romans 3:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
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Romans 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
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Romans 4:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
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Romans 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
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Romans 4:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham,
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Romans 4:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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Romans 4:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
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Romans 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Romans 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
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Romans 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
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Romans 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
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Romans 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
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Romans 5:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
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Romans 5:12 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
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Romans 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.
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Romans 5:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
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Romans 5:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.
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Romans 5:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
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Romans 5:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Romans 6:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
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Romans 6:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
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Romans 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
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Romans 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
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Romans 7:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
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Romans 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
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Romans 7:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
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Romans 7:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
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Romans 7:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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Romans 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
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Romans 8:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
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Romans 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
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