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
| John 6:26 | Jesus responded saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, you are not looking for me because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you saw miraculous signs, but because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you ate the loaves and had all you wanted. |
| John 6:36 | But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. |
| John 6:38 | For (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but to do the will of him who sent me. |
| John 6:41 | Then the Jews began to grumble about him because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” |
| John 6:42 | And they were saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” |
| John 6:46 | Not that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. |
| John 6:61 | But Jesus, aware that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) his disciples were grumbling about it, said to them, “Does this offend you? |
| John 6:65 | And he said, “For this reason I have said to you, ‘No one can come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father.’” |
| John 6:69 | and we have come to believe and to know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are the Holy One of God.” |
| John 7:1 | After this Jesus traveled about in Galilee; he chose not to remain in Judea, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Jews were seeking to kill him. |
| John 7:7 | The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am bearing witness against it that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) its works are evil. |
| John 7:8 | You go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) my time has not yet fully come.” |
| John 7:12 | And there was a lot of secret discussion about him among the crowds; some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others were saying, “No, to the contrary, he is leading people astray.” |
| John 7:22 | Moses gave you circumcision — not that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs — and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. |
| John 7:23 | If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I made an entire man well on the Sabbath? |
| John 7:26 | And look, he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Is it possible that our rulers know for sure that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this man is the Christ? |
| John 7:29 | but I know him, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am from him and he it is who sent me.” |
| John 7:30 | So they were anxious to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) his hour had not yet come. |
| John 7:35 | Then the Jews said to one another, “Where is this man about to go that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) we will not find him? Surely he is not going to go to our people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? |
| John 7:39 | Now he said this about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet present, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) Jesus had not yet been glorified. |
| John 7:42 | Has not the scripture said that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the Christ will be a descendant of David and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was born?” |
| John 7:52 | They replied to him, saying, “You too are not from Galilee, are you? Search and you will see that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) no prophet will arise from Galilee.” |
| John 8:14 | Jesus answered them, saying, “Even if I am bearing witness about myself, my testimony is valid, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I know where I came from and where I am going. You, on the other hand, do not know where I come from or where I am going. |
| John 8:16 | But even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. |
| John 8:17 | In your own law it is written that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) the testimony of two men is conclusive. |
| John 8:20 | Jesus spoke these words near the treasury as he was teaching in the temple. No one seized him because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) his hour had not yet come. |
| John 8:22 | So the Jews said, “Surely he is not going to kill himself, is he, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he said, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” |
| John 8:24 | This is why I said to you that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you would die in your sins, for if you do not believe that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am he, you will die in your sins.” |
| John 8:27 | They did not understand that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he was speaking to them about the Father. |
| John 8:28 | So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am he. I do nothing on my own, but speak only those things the Father has taught me. |
| John 8:29 | And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I always do what is pleasing to him.” |
| John 8:33 | They replied to him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?” |
| John 8:34 | Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. |
| John 8:37 | I know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are Abraham’s descendants; but you are intent on killing me, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) my teaching makes no headway in you. |
| John 8:43 | Why do you not understand the way I speak? It is because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are unable to grasp my message. |
| John 8:44 | You belong to your father the devil, and your will is to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and never did stand in the truth, because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) there is no truth in him. When he lies, he is giving expression to his own nature, for (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he is a liar and the father of lies. |
| John 8:45 | Yet because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I am speaking the truth, you do not believe me. |
| John 8:47 | Whoever belongs to God listens to the words of God. The reason why you do not listen is that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you do not belong to God.” |
| John 8:48 | The Jews answered him, saying, “Are we not correct in saying that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you are a Samaritan and have a demon?” |
| John 8:52 | The Jews therefore said to him, “Now we know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) you have a demon! Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ |
| John 8:54 | Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory amounts to nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ |
| John 8:55 | And you have not known him, but I know him. If I were to say that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) I did not know him, I would be like you, a liar; but I do know him, and I keep his word. |
| John 9:8 | Then the neighbors and those who were used to seeing him as (hoti | ὅτι | conj) a beggar said, “Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?” |
| John 9:9 | Some said, “He is the one.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” But he himself kept saying, “I am the man.” |
| John 9:11 | He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, daubed it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went there and washed, and I was able to see.” |
| John 9:16 | Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God because (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform miraculous signs like this?” And there was a division among them. |
| John 9:17 | So they spoke again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since (hoti | ὅτι | conj) it was your eyes that he opened?” The man replied, “He is a prophet.” |
| John 9:18 | The Jews did not believe the report about him, that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight |
| John 9:19 | and asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” |
| John 9:20 | His parents answered, saying, “We know that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) this is our son and that (hoti | ὅτι | conj) he was born blind; |
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.