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:
John 1:10: "the world was made by him, and the world"
John 1:17: "the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth"
John 1:17: "and truth came by Jesus Christ."
John 1:31: "that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing"
John 3:17: "that the world through him might be saved."
John 3:29: "him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this"
John 4:4: "he must needs go through Samaria."
John 4:39: "believed on him for the saying of the woman,"
John 4:41: "many more believed because of his own word;"
John 4:42: "woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard"
John 5:16: "And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and"
John 5:18: " Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill"
John 6:57: "me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth"
John 6:57: "me, even he shall live by me."
John 6:65: "And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man"
John 7:13: "openly of him for fear of the Jews."
John 7:22: "Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because"
John 7:43: "among the people because of him."
John 8:47: "God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because"
John 8:59: "the temple, going through the midst of them, and so"
John 9:23: " Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask"
John 10:1: "unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the"
John 10:2: "But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd"
John 10:9: "am the door: by me if any man enter in,"
John 10:17: " Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down"
John 10:19: "among the Jews for these sayings."
John 10:32: "from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone"
John 11:4: "Son of God might be glorified thereby."
John 11:15: "And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there,"
John 11:42: "me always: but because of the people which stand by I said"
John 12:9: "and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that"
John 12:11: "Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and"
John 12:18: " For this cause the people also met him, for"
John 12:27: "this hour: but for this cause came I unto this"
John 12:30: "voice came not because of me, but for your sakes."
John 12:30: "because of me, but for your sakes."
John 12:39: " Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said"
John 12:42: "many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees"
John 13:11: "he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not"
John 14:6: "the Father, but by me."
John 14:11: "or else believe me for the very works' sake."
John 15:3: "ye are clean through the word which I have spoken"
John 15:19: "you out of the world, therefore the world"
John 15:21: "these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know"
John 16:15: "hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take"
John 16:21: "more the anguish, for joy that a man is born"
John 17:20: "for them also which shall believe on me through their word;"
John 19:11: "it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me"
John 19:23: "without seam, woven from the top"
John 19:23: "without seam, woven from the top"
