διό
wherefore
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Conjunction
- A joining word linking words or clauses.
Every verse where G1352 appears in the Book of Ephesians — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Ephesians
- Ephesians 2:11 Διὸ conj Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);
- Ephesians 3:13 Διὸ conj Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
- Ephesians 4:8 διὸ conj Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."
- Ephesians 4:25 Διὸ conj Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
- Ephesians 5:14 διὸ conj Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
διο (dió) is a Greek conjunction most often rendered “wherefore.” Debuting at Matthew 27:8, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 51 verses — moderately common. Related forms include δια, διαβαινω and διαβαλλω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1352 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 51
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 51 distinct verses.
- 15 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
- #305
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 305 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 51 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 9 verses 18%
- Acts 8 verses 16%
- 2 Corinthians 7 verses 14%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 51 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 25 verses · 49%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 10 verses · 20%
- Hebrews 9 verses · 18%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 6 verses · 12%
- Gospels 3 verses · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Wherefore 41×, Therefore 10×, Cause 2×
- American Standard Version: Wherefore 44×, Because 2×, Therefore 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Therefore 31×, So 14×, Is why 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Therefore 46×, So 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1352 across 53 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1352 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1352 across 53 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1352 across 53 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- wherefore, on account off
Word origin
Derived from δια (diá) (G1223) — through.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G1352 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διὸ diò | Conjunction | Matthew 27:8 | 36 |
| Διὸ Diò | Conjunction | Romans 2:1 | 12 |
| Διό Dió | Conjunction | Philemon 1:8 | 3 |
| διό dió | Conjunction | Galatians 4:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1352, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- διαβαινω diabaínō G1224 to pass through
- διαβαλλω diabállō G1225 to slander
- διαβεβαιοομαι diabebaióomai G1226 to affirm strongly
- διαβλεπω diablépō G1227 to look through
- διαγγελλω diangéllō G1229 to proclaim
- διαγινομαι diagínomai G1230 to continue
- διαγινωσκω diaginṓskō G1231 to ascertain
- διαγογγυζω diagongýzō G1234 to murmur
- διαγρηγορεω diagrēgoréō G1235 to watch through
- διαγω diágō G1236 to lead through
- διαδεχομαι diadéchomai G1237 to receive in succession
- διαδημα diádēma G1238 diadem
- διαδιδωμι diadídōmi G1239 to distribute
- διαζωννυμι diazṓnnymi G1241 to gird around
- διαιρεω diairéō G1244 to divide
- διακαθαριζω diakatharízō G1245 to cleanse thoroughly
- διακατελεγχομαι diakatelénchomai G1246 to confute
- διακουομαι diakoúomai G1251 to hear fully
- διακρινω diakrínō G1252 to distinguish
- διακωλυω diakōlýō G1254 to hinder
- διαλαλεω dialaléō G1255 to converse
- διαλεγομαι dialégomai G1256 to discuss
- διαλειπω dialeípō G1257 to intermit
- διαλλασσω diallássō G1259 to reconcile
+62 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 89 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διο appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 3 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Joshua 5:6 διό
- Job 9:22 διό
- Psalms 115:1 διό
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1352) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Joshua 5:6 διό For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Job 9:22 διό "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.
- Job 32:6 διό Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.
- Job 32:10 διό Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'
- Job 34:10 διό "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, From the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
- Job 34:34 διό Men of understanding will tell me, Yes, every wise man who hears me:
- Job 37:24 διό Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."
- Job 42:6 διό Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."
- Psalms 115:1 διό Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, But to your name give glory, For your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1352) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
