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 Colossians — 6 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.
Colossians
- Colossians 1:16 ὅτι conj For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
- Colossians 1:19 ὅτι conj For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;
- Colossians 2:9 ὅτι conj For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
- Colossians 3:24 ὅτι conj knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
- Colossians 4:1 ὅτι conj Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
- Colossians 4:13 ὅτι conj For I testify about him, that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.
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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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.
