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:
2 Corinthians 1:19: "you by us, even by me and Silvanus and"
2 Corinthians 1:20: "Amen, unto the glory of God by us."
2 Corinthians 2:4: "of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that"
2 Corinthians 2:10: "if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in"
2 Corinthians 2:14: "maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in"
2 Corinthians 3:4: "such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:"
2 Corinthians 3:7: "steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory"
2 Corinthians 3:11: "For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth"
2 Corinthians 4:1: " Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint"
2 Corinthians 4:5: "ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake."
2 Corinthians 4:11: "delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life"
2 Corinthians 4:14: "shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with"
2 Corinthians 4:15: "For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace"
2 Corinthians 4:15: "that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many"
2 Corinthians 5:7: "(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"
2 Corinthians 5:7: "by faith, not by sight:)"
2 Corinthians 5:10: "every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done,"
2 Corinthians 5:18: "who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given"
2 Corinthians 5:20: "as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead,"
2 Corinthians 6:7: "by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the"
2 Corinthians 6:8: " By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report:"
2 Corinthians 6:8: "honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as"
2 Corinthians 7:13: " Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly"
2 Corinthians 8:5: "Lord, and unto us by the will of God."
2 Corinthians 8:8: "by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and"
2 Corinthians 8:9: "that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye"
2 Corinthians 8:18: "is in the gospel throughout all the churches;"
2 Corinthians 9:11: "bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God."
2 Corinthians 9:12: "saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;"
2 Corinthians 9:13: " While by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your"
2 Corinthians 9:14: "you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God"
2 Corinthians 10:1: "myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness"
2 Corinthians 10:9: "as if I would terrify you by letters."
2 Corinthians 10:11: "such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also"
2 Corinthians 11:33: "And through a window in a basket was I let down by the"
2 Corinthians 11:33: "in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped"
2 Corinthians 12:17: " Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent"
2 Corinthians 13:10: " Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use"
Galatians 1:1: "of men, neither by man, but by Jesus"
Galatians 1:1: "by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God"
Galatians 1:12: "neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."
Galatians 1:15: "womb, and called me by his grace,"
Galatians 2:1: "Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem"
Galatians 2:4: "And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our"
Galatians 2:16: "the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even"
Galatians 2:19: "For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live"
Galatians 2:21: "for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead"
Galatians 3:14: "promise of the Spirit through faith."
Galatians 3:18: "God gave it to Abraham by promise."
Galatians 3:19: "should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand"
