Vocabulary Form
ὅτι
Definition

that, since, because

Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
1296
GK
4022
Mnemonics

I like hot tea because ...

Mnemonic Singing

Lord, I would clasp thy hand in mine,
nor ever murmur nor repine;
content, whatever lot I see,
since 'tis my God that leadeth me.

Song
Verse

“How can the scribes say ὅτι that the Messiah is the son of David?” (Mark 12:35)

“After me comes a man who is greater than I, ὅτι he existed before me.” (John 1:30)

“If someone says, ‘I love God,‘ yet hates his brother, he is a liar.” (1 John 4:20)

Notes

ὅτι can also act as quotation marks. Our text capitalizes the first word in what the editors feel is a quotation; in these cases they are expecting you to view ὅτι as quotation marks.

Biblical Concordance

John 6:26 Jesus responded saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, you are not looking for me because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you saw miraculous signs, but because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you ate the loaves and had all you wanted.
John 6:36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
John 6:38 For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but to do the will of him who sent me.
John 6:41 Then the Jews began to grumble about him because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 6:42 And they were saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
John 6:46 Not that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
John 6:61 But Jesus, aware that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) his disciples were grumbling about it, said to them, “Does this offend you?
John 6:65 And he said, “For this reason I have said to you, ‘No one can come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father.’”
John 6:69 and we have come to believe and to know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are the Holy One of God.”
John 7:1 After this Jesus traveled about in Galilee; he chose not to remain in Judea, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Jews were seeking to kill him.
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am bearing witness against it that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) its works are evil.
John 7:8 You go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) my time has not yet fully come.”
John 7:12 And there was a lot of secret discussion about him among the crowds; some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others were saying, “No, to the contrary, he is leading people astray.”
John 7:22 Moses gave you circumcision — not that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs — and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
John 7:23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?
John 7:26 And look, he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Is it possible that our rulers know for sure that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this man is the Christ?
John 7:29 but I know him, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am from him and he it is who sent me.”
John 7:30 So they were anxious to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) his hour had not yet come.
John 7:35 Then the Jews said to one another, “Where is this man about to go that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we will not find him? Surely he is not going to go to our people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?
John 7:39 Now he said this about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet present, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus had not yet been glorified.
John 7:42 Has not the scripture said that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Christ will be a descendant of David and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was born?”
John 7:52 They replied to him, saying, “You too are not from Galilee, are you? Search and you will see that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) no prophet will arise from Galilee.”
John 8:14 Jesus answered them, saying, “Even if I am bearing witness about myself, my testimony is valid, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I know where I came from and where I am going. You, on the other hand, do not know where I come from or where I am going.
John 8:16 But even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
John 8:17 In your own law it is written that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the testimony of two men is conclusive.