For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ὅτι
Vocabulary form:
o{ti
Definition:
that, since, because
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
1,296
GK:
4022
Mnemonics:
I like hot tea because ...
Mnemonic Singing:
Lord, I would clasp thy hand in mine,
nor ever murmur nor repine;
content, whatever lot I see,
since 'tis my God that leadeth me.
Verse:
“How can the scribes say ὅτι that the Messiah is the son of David?” (Mark 12:35)
“After me comes a man who is greater than I, ὅτι he existed before me.” (John 1:30)
“If someone says, ‘I love God,‘ yet hates his brother, he is a liar.” (1 John 4:20)
Notes:
o{ti can also act as quotation marks. Our text capitalizes the first word in what the editors feel is a quotation; in these cases they are expecting you to view o{ti as quotation marks.
Biblical Concordance
| Luke 11:44 | Woe to you! For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are like unmarked tombs; people walk over them without realizing it.” |
| Luke 11:46 | Jesus replied, “Woe to you lawyers also! For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you load people down with burdens hard to bear, yet you yourselves will not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. |
| Luke 11:47 | Woe to you! For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you build memorials to the prophets, but your fathers killed them. |
| Luke 11:48 | So you are witnesses: you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) while they killed them, you build the memorials. |
| Luke 11:52 | Woe to you lawyers! For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and have hindered those who wanted to enter.” |
| Luke 12:15 | And he said to them, “Watch out and be on guard against all types of greed, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” |
| Luke 12:17 | And he thought to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I have no place to store my crops?’ |
| Luke 12:24 | Consider the ravens: for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they do not sow, neither do they reap; for them there is neither storehouse nor granary, yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! |
| Luke 12:30 | For all the nations of the world have these things as their overriding concern, and your Father knows full well that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you need them. |
| Luke 12:32 | Do not be afraid, little flock, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) your Father has determined in his pleasure to give you the kingdom. |
| Luke 12:37 | Fortunate are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly I say to you, he will dress himself for service, have them recline at table, and will come and serve them. |
| Luke 12:39 | “Know this: that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would not have allowed his house be broken into. |
| Luke 12:40 | So you too must be ready, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not expect him.” |
| Luke 12:44 | I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. |
| Luke 12:51 | Do you think that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I came to give peace in the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! |
| Luke 12:54 | He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, rainstorm is coming,’ and so it happens. |
| Luke 12:55 | And when there is a south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be hot weather,’ and it happens. |
| Luke 13:2 | In response he said to them, “Do you think that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they suffered these things? |
| Luke 13:4 | Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them — do you think that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? |
| Luke 13:14 | Indignant because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the ruler of the synagogue said to the crowd, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” |
| Luke 13:24 | “Do your best to go in through the narrow door; for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) many, I tell you, will try to go in and not be able. |
| Luke 13:31 | In that very hour some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Leave and get away from here, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Herod wants to kill you.” |
| Luke 13:33 | Nevertheless I must continue on my way today and tomorrow and the next day; because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it is not possible for a prophet to die outside of Jerusalem.” |
| Luke 14:11 | For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” |
| Luke 14:14 | Then you will be blessed, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they do not have a way to pay you back, for there will be a repayment for you at the resurrection of the righteous.“ |
| Luke 14:17 | And he sent his servant at the hour of the banquet to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) everything is now ready.’ |
| Luke 14:24 | For I say to you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) none of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’” |
| Luke 14:30 | saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to complete.’ |
| Luke 15:2 | And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling, saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them!” |
| Luke 15:6 | And when he returns to his house, would he not call together his friends and his neighbors, and say to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I have found my sheep that was lost’? |
| Luke 15:7 | I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. |
| Luke 15:9 | And when she finds it, would she not call together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I have found the coin that I had lost’? |
| Luke 15:24 | for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this, my son, was dead, and has come back to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’ So they began to celebrate. |
| Luke 15:27 | The servant said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, he received him back safe and sound.’ |
| Luke 15:32 | We had to celebrate and rejoice, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this brother of yours, was dead and has come alive; he was lost and has been found.’” |
| Luke 16:3 | And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since (hoti | ὅτι | conj) my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. |
| Luke 16:8 | The master commended the dishonest manager because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he acted shrewdly. For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. |
| Luke 16:15 | And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) what is exalted among men is an abomination before God. |
| Luke 16:24 | And calling out he said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am in anguish in this flame.’ |
| Luke 16:25 | But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you received your good things during your lifetime, and Lazarus correspondingly received bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. |
| Luke 17:9 | Does he express thanks to the servant because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he did the things that were commanded? |
| Luke 17:10 | So it is with you. When you have done all that was commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have done no more than we were obliged to do.’” |
| Luke 17:15 | Then one of them, when he saw that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he had been healed, returned, praising God in a loud voice, |
| Luke 18:8 | I tell you, he will vindicate them without delay; but will the Son of Man, when he comes, find faith on earth?” |
| Luke 18:9 | He also told this parable to some who were confident in themselves, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) they were righteous, and treated others with contempt. |
| Luke 18:11 | The Pharisee stood and prayed like this to himself: ‘God, I thank you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am not like the rest of mankind — swindlers, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. |
| Luke 18:14 | I tell you, this man went down to his house upright in the sight of God, rather than the other. For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” |
| Luke 18:29 | Then Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or siblings or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God |
| Luke 18:37 | They told him that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. |
| Luke 19:3 | He was trying to see Jesus — who he was — but was not able to on account of the crowd, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he was short in stature. |
Mnemonics
Since that hot tea is hot it
Since that hot tea is hot it will burn your mouth because it's a hot tea.
If you are haughty, drink
If you are haughty, drink some hot tea.