Definition
that, since, because
Vocabulary Form
ὅτι
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 16:3 | And these things they will do because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they have not known the Father nor me. |
| John 16:4 | But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you will remember that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I told you about them. “I did not tell you these things at the start because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I was with you. |
| John 16:6 | But because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. |
| John 16:9 | in regard to sin, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they do not believe in me; |
| John 16:10 | in regard to righteousness, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am going away to the Father, and you will see me no longer; |
| John 16:11 | in regard to judgment, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the ruler of this world has been condemned. |
| John 16:14 | He will glorify me, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he will receive what is mine and tell it to you. |
| John 16:15 | All that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he will take what is mine and declare it to you. |
| John 16:17 | Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’ and, ‘Because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am going to the Father’?” |
| John 16:19 | Jesus knew that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they wanted to question him, so he said to them, “Are you deliberating with one another about this — that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? |
| John 16:20 | I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, and the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. |
| John 16:21 | When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) her hour has come; but when the baby is born, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) a child has been born into the world. |
| John 16:26 | In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying to you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I will intercede with the Father on your behalf; |
| John 16:27 | for the Father himself loves you, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have loved me and have come to believe that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I came forth from God. |
| John 16:30 | Now we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you know all things and have no need for anyone to question you. This is why we believe that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have come forth from God.” |
| John 16:32 | Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own place, and you will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Father is with me. |
| John 17:7 | Now they have come to know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) everything that you have given me is from you; |
| John 17:8 | for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them, and come to know in truth that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I came forth from you, and they have believed that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you sent me. |
| John 17:9 | I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they are yours; |
| John 17:14 | I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. |
| John 17:21 | that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have sent me. |
| John 17:23 | I in them and you in me, that they may be completely one, so that the world may know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you sent me, and that you love them even as you love me. |
| John 17:24 | Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, so they may see my glory that you have given me because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you loved me before the creation of the world. |
| John 17:25 | Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you sent me. |
| John 18:2 | Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus often met there with his disciples. |