ὅτι
that
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 G3754 appears in the Book of 1 John — 61 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.
1 John
- 1 John 1:5 ὅτι conj This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
- 1 John 1:6 ὅτι conj If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
- 1 John 1:8 ὅτι conj If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John 1:10 ὅτι conj If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
- 1 John 2:3 ὅτι conj This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
- 1 John 2:4 ὅτι conj One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
- 1 John 2:5 ὅτι conj But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
- 1 John 2:8 ὅτι conj Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
- 1 John 2:11 ὅτι conj But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- 1 John 2:12 ὅτι conj I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
- 1 John 2:13 ὅτι ὅτι ὅτι conj conj conj I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
- 1 John 2:14 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
- 1 John 2:16 ὅτι conj For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.
- 1 John 2:18 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the end times.
- 1 John 2:19 ὅτι conj They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
- 1 John 2:21 ὅτι ὅτι ὅτι conj conj conj I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
- 1 John 2:22 ὅτι conj Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
- 1 John 2:29 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
- 1 John 3:1 ὅτι conj Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
- 1 John 3:2 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
- 1 John 3:5 ὅτι conj You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
- 1 John 3:8 ὅτι conj He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
- 1 John 3:9 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
- 1 John 3:11 ὅτι conj For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
- 1 John 3:12 ὅτι conj unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
- 1 John 3:14 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
- 1 John 3:15 ὅτι conj Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
- 1 John 3:16 ὅτι conj By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- 1 John 3:19 ὅτι conj And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,
- 1 John 3:20 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
- 1 John 3:22 ὅτι conj and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
- 1 John 3:24 ὅτι conj He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
- 1 John 4:1 ὅτι conj Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
- 1 John 4:3 ὅτι conj and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
- 1 John 4:4 ὅτι conj You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
- 1 John 4:7 ὅτι conj Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
- 1 John 4:8 ὅτι conj He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
- 1 John 4:9 ὅτι conj By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- 1 John 4:10 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- 1 John 4:13 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
- 1 John 4:14 ὅτι conj We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
- 1 John 4:15 ὅτι conj Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
- 1 John 4:17 ὅτι conj In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.
- 1 John 4:18 ὅτι conj There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
- 1 John 4:19 ὅτι conj We love Him, because he first loved us.
- 1 John 4:20 ὅτι conj If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
- 1 John 5:1 ὅτι conj Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.
- 1 John 5:2 ὅτι conj By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
- 1 John 5:4 ὅτι conj For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
- 1 John 5:5 ὅτι conj Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
- 1 John 5:6 ὅτι conj This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
- 1 John 5:7 ὅτι conj For there are three who testify:
- 1 John 5:9 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
- 1 John 5:10 ὅτι conj He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
- 1 John 5:11 ὅτι conj The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- 1 John 5:13 ὅτι conj These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
- 1 John 5:14 ὅτι conj This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
- 1 John 5:15 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
- 1 John 5:18 ὅτι conj We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.
- 1 John 5:19 ὅτι conj We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
- 1 John 5:20 ὅτι conj We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
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.
At its core, οτι (hóti) means “that.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 2:16. Spanning 1,193 verses in 27 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Greek New Testament. From the same root come οστις and οτου. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3754 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 →
- 1,193
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,193 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #15
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 15 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1,193 occurrences in the concordance →
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 1,193 distinct verses.
- Gospels 636 verses · 53%
- Johannine 357 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 280 verses · 23%
- Pauline corpus 269 verses · 23%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 102 verses · 9%
- Revelation 54 verses · 5%
- Hebrews 17 verses · 1%
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: That 607×, For 258×, Because 178×
- American Standard Version: That 605×, For 237×, Because 161×
- Berean Standard Bible: That 520×, Because 207×, For 162×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 681×, Because 221×, For 202×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3754 across 1,142 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 35 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 151 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3754 across 1,242 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 98 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 20 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3754 across 935 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 368 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3754 across 1,123 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear 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.
- that, because, since
Word origin
Derived from οστις (hóstis) (G3748) — whoever.
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.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3754, 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.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οτι appears 3,218 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2,854 verses in 36 books.
- 3,218
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2,854
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 36 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 36 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:4 ὅτι
- Exodus 1:18 ὅτι
- Leviticus 5:11 ὅτι
- Numbers 6:7 ὅτι
- Deuteronomy 1:17 ὅτι
- Joshua 1:9 ὅτι
- Judges 1:15 ὅτι
- Ruth 1:6 ὅτι
- 1 Samuel 1:5 ὅτι
- 2 Samuel 1:4 ὅτι
- 1 Kings 1:11 ὅτι
- 2 Kings 1:4 ὅτι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3754) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 2,854. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:4 ὅτι God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:8 ὅτι God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:10 ὅτι God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:12 ὅτι The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:18 ὅτι and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:21 ὅτι God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:25 ὅτι God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 2:3 ὅτι God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Genesis 2:23 ὅτι The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
- Genesis 3:1 ὅτι Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:5 ὅτι for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
- Genesis 3:6 ὅτι When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 3:7 ὅτι Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 3:10 ὅτι The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Genesis 3:11 ὅτι God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:14 ὅτι Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:17 ὅτι To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:19 ὅτι By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
- Genesis 3:20 ὅτι The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
- Genesis 4:12 ὅτι From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
- Genesis 4:23 ὅτι Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 4:24 ὅτι If Cain will be avenged seven times, Truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
- Genesis 5:24 ὅτι Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
- Genesis 6:2 ὅτι that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
- Genesis 6:5 ὅτι Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 6:6 ὅτι Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
- Genesis 6:7 ὅτι Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
- Genesis 6:12 ὅτι God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
- Genesis 6:13 ὅτι God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 7:1 ὅτι Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 8:9 ὅτι but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 8:11 ὅτι The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:13 ὅτι It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 8:21 ὅτι Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 9:6 ὅτι Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 10:25 ὅτι To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
- Genesis 11:9 ὅτι Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 12:10 ὅτι There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
- Genesis 12:11 ὅτι It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.
- Genesis 12:12 ὅτι It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
- Genesis 12:13 ὅτι Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
- Genesis 12:14 ὅτι It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
- Genesis 12:18 ὅτι Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
- Genesis 12:19 ὅτι Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
- Genesis 13:6 ὅτι The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
- Genesis 13:8 ὅτι Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
- Genesis 13:10 ὅτι Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
- Genesis 13:15 ὅτι for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
- Genesis 13:17 ὅτι Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you."
- Genesis 14:14 ὅτι When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3754) 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.