ὅτι
that
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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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 Romans — 54 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.
Romans
- Romans 1:8 ὅτι conj First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
- Romans 1:13 ὅτι conj Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
- Romans 1:32 ὅτι conj who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Romans 2:2 ὅτι conj We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
- Romans 2:3 ὅτι conj Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
- Romans 2:4 ὅτι conj Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
- Romans 3:2 ὅτι conj Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
- Romans 3:8 ὅτι conj Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
- Romans 3:10 ὅτι conj As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.
- Romans 3:19 ὅτι conj Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
- Romans 4:17 ὅτι conj As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- Romans 4:21 ὅτι conj and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
- Romans 4:23 ὅτι conj Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
- Romans 5:3 ὅτι conj Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
- Romans 5:5 ὅτι conj and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- Romans 5:8 ὅτι conj But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 6:3 ὅτι conj Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- Romans 6:6 ὅτι conj knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
- Romans 6:8 ὅτι conj But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
- Romans 6:9 ὅτι conj knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
- Romans 6:15 ὅτι conj What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
- Romans 6:16 ὅτι conj Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
- Romans 6:17 ὅτι conj But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
- Romans 7:1 ὅτι conj Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
- Romans 7:14 ὅτι conj For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
- Romans 7:16 ὅτι conj But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
- Romans 7:18 ὅτι conj For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
- Romans 7:21 ὅτι conj I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
- Romans 8:16 ὅτι conj The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
- Romans 8:18 ὅτι conj For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
- Romans 8:22 ὅτι conj For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
- Romans 8:27 ὅτι conj He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
- Romans 8:28 ὅτι conj We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:29 ὅτι conj For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Romans 8:36 ὅτι conj Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
- Romans 8:38 ὅτι conj For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
- Romans 9:2 ὅτι conj that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
- Romans 9:6 ὅτι conj But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
- Romans 9:7 ὅτι conj Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."
- Romans 9:12 ὅτι conj it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."
- Romans 9:17 ὅτι conj For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."
- Romans 9:30 ὅτι conj What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
- Romans 9:32 ὅτι conj Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
- Romans 10:2 ὅτι conj For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
- Romans 10:5 ὅτι conj For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
- Romans 10:9 ὅτι ὅτι conj conj that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Romans 11:25 ὅτι conj For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- Romans 11:36 ὅτι conj For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
- Romans 13:11 ὅτι conj Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
- Romans 14:11 ὅτι conj For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"
- Romans 14:14 ὅτι conj I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
- Romans 14:23 ὅτι conj But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. (14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, (14:25) but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; (14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.
- Romans 15:14 ὅτι conj I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
- Romans 15:29 ὅτι conj I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.
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.
