Strong's #1223: dia (pronounced dee-ah')
a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional):--after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) ... fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with (-in). In composition it retains the same general importance.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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dia
1) through
1a) of place
1a1) with
1a2) in
1b) of time
1b1) throughout
1b2) during
1c) of means
1c1) by
1c2) by the means of
2) through
2a) the ground or reason by which something is or is not done
2a1) by reason of
2a2) on account of
2a3) because of for this reason
2a4) therefore
2a5) on this account
Part of Speech: preposition
Relation: a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act
Citing in TDNT: 2:65, 149
Usage:
This word is used 610 times:
Mark 2:27: "man, and not man for the sabbath:"
Mark 3:9: "a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng"
Mark 4:17: "or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended."
Mark 6:2: "such mighty works are wrought by his hands?"
Mark 6:6: "And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went round about"
Mark 6:14: "was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do show forth"
Mark 6:17: "him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's"
Mark 6:26: "king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would"
Mark 7:29: "And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the"
Mark 9:30: "they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not"
Mark 10:1: "into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan:"
Mark 10:25: "easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than"
Mark 11:16: "any man should carry any vessel through the temple."
Mark 11:24: " Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire,"
Mark 12:24: "said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not"
Mark 13:13: "hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure"
Mark 13:20: "no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake,"
Mark 14:21: "woe to that man by whom the Son of man"
Mark 14:58: "temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another"
Mark 15:10: "chief priests had delivered him for envy."
Mark 16:20: "confirming the word with signs following. Amen."
Luke 1:70: "As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which"
Luke 1:78: " Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring"
Luke 2:4: "which is called Bethlehem; because (he was of the house"
Luke 4:30: "But he passing through the midst of them went his way,"
Luke 5:5: "said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night,"
Luke 5:19: "And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of"
Luke 5:19: "by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went"
Luke 5:19: "the housetop, and let him down through the tiling"
Luke 6:1: "the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and"
Luke 8:4: "him out of every city, he spake by a parable:"
Luke 8:19: "not come at him for the press."
Luke 8:47: "all the people for what cause she had touched him,"
Luke 11:8: "his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give"
Luke 11:19: "do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your"
Luke 11:24: "out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest;"
Luke 11:49: " Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send"
Luke 12:22: "unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought"
Luke 13:24: "Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many,"
Luke 14:20: "I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come."
Luke 17:1: "will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!"
Luke 17:11: "that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee."
Luke 18:25: "easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man"
Luke 18:31: "and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son"
Luke 21:17: "hated of all men for my name's sake."
Luke 22:22: "woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!"
Luke 23:19: "(Who for a certain sedition made in the city,"
Luke 23:25: "And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast"
John 1:3: "All things were made by him; and without him was not"
John 1:7: "Light, that all men through him might believe."
