Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

ὅτι

Vocabulary form: 
o{ti
Definition: 

that, since, because

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.

Mnemonics

Since that hot tea is hot it will burn your mouth because it's a hot tea.

If you are haughty, drink some hot tea.

Biblical Concordance

Luke 19:4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore-fig tree to see him, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he was about to pass that way.
Luke 19:7 And everyone, when they saw this, began to grumble, “He went in to lodge with a sinful man.”
Luke 19:9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he too is a son of Abraham.
Luke 19:11 As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.
Luke 19:17 And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, exercise authority over ten cities.’
Luke 19:21 for I was afraid of you, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are an exacting man: you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’
Luke 19:22 He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, wicked servant. You knew, did you, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
Luke 19:26 I tell you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) to everyone who has, more will be given; but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
Luke 19:31 If someone asks you why are you untying it, you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’”
Luke 19:34 And they said, “Because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Lord has need of it.”
Luke 19:42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 19:43 For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.
Luke 20:5 They reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ then he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
Luke 20:19 The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he had spoken this parable against them, but they feared the people.
Luke 20:21 They questioned him, saying, “Teacher, we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you speak and teach truthfully and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.
Luke 20:37 But that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the dead are raised, even Moses made known, in the passage about the bush, for he calls the Lord, ‘the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’
Luke 21:3 And he said, “I tell you the truth, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this poor widow has put in more than all the rest.
Luke 21:5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, Jesus said,
Luke 21:20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) its desolation has drawn near.
Luke 21:22 for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) these are days of vengeance, so that everything that has been written may be fulfilled.
Luke 21:30 When they have already put forth their leaves, you see for yourselves and know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) summer is already near.
Luke 21:31 So also you, when you see these things happening, will know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the kingdom of God is near.
Luke 21:32 I tell you the truth, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this generation will by no means have passed away before all things have happened.
Luke 22:16 For I say to you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I will certainly not eat again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
Luke 22:18 For I say to you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) from now on I shall certainly not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
Luke 22:22 For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Son of Man goes according to what has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.”
Luke 22:37 For I tell you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) there must be fulfilled in me what stands written: ‘And he was numbered with the lawless.’ And indeed, that which concerns me has its fulfillment.”
Luke 22:61 Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord that he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
Luke 22:70 They all said, “Are you, then, the Son of God?” And he said to them, “You say that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am.”
Luke 23:5 But they kept insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”
Luke 23:7 Learning that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
Luke 23:29 For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never gave birth and the breasts that never nursed!’
Luke 23:31 For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Luke 23:40 But the other responded with a rebuke, saying, “Do you not fear God, since (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are under the same sentence?
Luke 24:7 saying that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it was necessary for the Son of Man to be delivered into the hands of sinful men and to be crucified and on the third day to rise again.”
Luke 24:21 But we had hoped that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.
Luke 24:29 but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it is toward evening and the day is already far spent.” So he went in to stay with them.
Luke 24:34 saying, “The Lord has indeed been raised and has appeared to Simon!”
Luke 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it is I myself. Touch me and see, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
Luke 24:44 Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) everything written in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms about me must be fulfilled.”
Luke 24:46 and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,
John 1:15 John testified about him and cried out, saying, “This is he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than I, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he existed before me.’”
John 1:16 For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) from his fulness we have all received one gracious gift after another.
John 1:17 For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:20 He confessed and did not deny, but confessed, am not the Christ.”
John 1:30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he existed before me.’
John 1:32 Then John testified, saying, “I saw the Spirit coming down as a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.
John 1:34 I myself saw it, and I bear witness that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this man is the Chosen One of God.”
John 1:50 Jesus responded, saying to him, “Is it because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I told you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I saw you under the fig tree that you believe? You will see greater things than that.”
John 2:17 His disciples remembered that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it stands written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

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