Strong's #156: aitia (pronounced ahee-tee'-a)
from the same as 154; a cause (as if asked for), i.e. (logical) reason (motive, matter), (legal) crime (alleged or proved):--accusation, case, cause, crime, fault, (wh-)ere(-fore).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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aitia
1) cause, reason
2) cause for which one is worthy of punishment, crime
3) charge of crime, accusation
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from the same as G154
Usage:
This word is used 21 times:
Matthew 19:3: "his wife for every cause?"
Matthew 19:10: "unto him, If the case of the man be so"
Matthew 27:37: "his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS"
Mark 15:26: "the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING"
Luke 8:47: "people for what cause she had touched him, and how"
John 18:38: "in him no fault"
John 18:38: "in him no fault"
John 19:4: "that I find no fault in him."
John 19:6: "I find no fault in him."
Acts 10:21: "ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?"
Acts 13:28: "And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he"
Acts 22:24: "by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against"
Acts 23:28: "when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him,"
Acts 25:18: "stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:"
Acts 25:27: "withal to signify the crimes laid against him."
Acts 28:18: "have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me."
Acts 28:20: "For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and"
2 Timothy 1:6: " Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift"
2 Timothy 1:12: "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not"
Titus 1:13: "witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them"
Hebrews 2:11: "one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them"