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:
Acts 20:28: "of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."
Acts 21:4: "who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up"
Acts 21:19: "God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry."
Acts 21:34: "and when he could not know the certainty for the"
Acts 21:35: "of the soldiers for the violence of the people."
Acts 22:24: "by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against"
Acts 23:28: "have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth"
Acts 23:31: "took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris."
Acts 24:2: "began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness,"
Acts 24:2: "are done unto this nation by thy providence,"
Acts 24:17: "Now after many years I came to bring alms to"
Acts 28:2: "and received us every one, because of the present rain, and"
Acts 28:2: "present rain, and because of the cold."
Acts 28:20: " For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and"
Acts 28:25: "spake the Holy Ghost by Isaiah the prophet"
Romans 1:2: "(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,)"
Romans 1:5: " By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience"
Romans 1:8: "thank my God through Jesus Christ for you"
Romans 1:12: "that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith"
Romans 1:26: " For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:"
Romans 2:12: "in the law shall be judged by the law;"
Romans 2:16: "the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my"
Romans 2:23: "makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonorest"
Romans 2:24: "among the Gentiles through you, as it is written."
Romans 2:27: "law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress"
Romans 3:20: "flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge"
Romans 3:22: "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto"
Romans 3:24: "freely by his grace through the redemption that is in"
Romans 3:25: "God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,"
Romans 3:25: "to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins"
Romans 3:27: "is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay:"
Romans 3:27: "of works? Nay: but by the law of faith."
Romans 3:30: "faith, and uncircumcision through faith."
Romans 3:31: "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,"
Romans 4:11: "might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed"
Romans 4:13: "or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness"
Romans 4:13: "through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."
Romans 4:16: " Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the"
Romans 4:23: "Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed"
Romans 4:24: "But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we"
Romans 4:25: "Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for"
Romans 4:25: "offenses, and was raised again for our justification."
Romans 5:1: "peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:"
Romans 5:2: " By whom also we have access by faith into this"
Romans 5:5: "is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given"
Romans 5:9: "we shall be saved from wrath through him."
Romans 5:10: "enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,"
Romans 5:11: "joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,"
Romans 5:11: "Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the"
Romans 5:12: " Wherefore, as by one man sin entered"
