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|astxt=[[διά]] ([[before]] a vowel δ’, exc. Ro 8:10, II Co 5:7, and in pr. names; Tdf., Pr., 94), prep. c. gen., acc, as in cl.; <br /><b class="num">1.</b>c. gen., [[through]];<br /><b class="num">(i)</b>of [[place]], [[after]] verbs of [[motion]] or [[action]]: Mt 2:12 12:43, Mk 2:23, Lk 4:30, Jo 4:4, II Co 11:33, al.; σώζεσθαι (διας-) δ. [[πυρός]], ὕδατος, I Co 3:15, I Pe 3:20; βλέπειν δ. ἐσόπτρου, I Co 13:12; metaph., of a [[state]] or [[condition]]: Ro 14:20, II Co 2:4 5:7, 10; δ. γράμματος, ἀκροβυστίας (Lft., Notes, 263, 279), Ro 2:27 4:11; δι ̓ὑπομενῆς, Ro 8:25. <br /><b class="num">(ii)</b>Of Time;<br /><b class="num">(a)</b>[[during]] [[which]]: Mt 26:61, Mk 14:58, Lk 5:5; δ. παντὸς [[τοῦ]] [[ζῆν]], He 2:15; δ. παντός ([[διαπαντός]] in Mk 5:5, Lk 24:53), [[always]], [[continually]], Mt 18:10, Ac 2:25 (LXX) 10:2 24:16, Ro 11:10 (LXX), II Th 3:16, He 9:6 13:15. <br /><b class="num">(b)</b>[[within]] [[which]]: Ac 1:3; δ. νυκτός, Ac 5:19 16:9 17:10 23:31; <br /><b class="num">(c)</b>[[after]] [[which]] (Field, Notes, 20; Abbott, JG, 255f.): Mk 2:1, Ac 24:17, Ga 2:1. <br /><b class="num">(iii)</b>Of the Means or Instrument;<br /><b class="num">(1)</b>of the [[efficient]] [[cause]] (regarded [[also]] as the [[instrument]]): of God, Ro 11:36, I Co 1:9, Ga 4:7, He 2:10 7:21; of Christ, Ro 1:8 5:1, 17 I Co 15:21, I Pe 4:11, al.; δ. τ. [[ὑμῶν]] δεήσεως, Ro 1:12, II Co 1:4 Ga 4:23, al.; <br /><b class="num">(2)</b>of the [[agent]], [[instrument]] or [[means]];<br /><b class="num">(a)</b>c. gen. pers., Mt 11:2, Lk 1:70, Jo 1:17, Ac 1:16, Ro 2:16, I Co 1:21, Eph 1:5, He 2:14, Re 1:1, al.; ὑπὸ τ. κυρίου δ́ τ́ προφήτου (δ. τ. κυρίου, I Th 4:2 (M, Th., in l.); Lft., Rev., 121f.), Mt 1:22 2:15, Ro 1:2; δ. ἐπιστολῆς ὡς δ. [[ἡμῶν]] (Field, Notes, 202), II Th 2:2; δ. Σ. (NTD, 22), I Pe 5:12; <br /><b class="num">(b)</b> c. gen. rei ([[where]] [[often]] the [[simple]] dat. is used in cl.; Jannaris, Gr., 375), Jo 11:4, Ac 5:12; δ. τ. πίστεως, Ro 3:30; δ. λόγου θεοῦ, I Pe 1:23; δ. παραβολῆς, Lk 8:4; δουλεύειν δ. τ. ἀγάπης, Ga 5:13; δ. ἐπαγγελίας, Ga 3:18, <br /><b class="num">2.</b>C. acc.;<br /><b class="num">(i)</b>[[rarely]], as c. gen., [[through]] (Hom), δ. [[μέσον]] Σαμαρίας (ICC, in l.; Bl., §42, 1; Robertson, Gr., 581), Lk 17:11. <br /><b class="num">(ii)</b>by [[reason]] of, [[because]] of, for the [[sake]] of;<br /><b class="num">(a)</b>c. acc pers. (M, Pr., 105), Mk 2:27, Jo 6:57 11:42, Ro 8:20; <br /><b class="num">(b)</b>c. acc. rei, δ. φθόνον, Mt 27:18, Mk 15:10; δ. φόβον, Jo 7:13 20:19; δ. ἀγάπην, Eph 2:4; δ. [[τοῦτο]], freq., for [[this]] [[cause]], [[therefore]], Mt 6:25, Mk 6:14, Lk 11:49, Jo 6:65, al.; id. seq. [[ὅτι]], Jo 5:16 10:17, al.; δ. τί, [[why]], Mt 9:11, 14 Mk 2:18, Jo 7:45, al.; δ. τό, c. inf., Mk 5:4, Lk 9:7, Ja 4:2. <br /><b class="num">3.</b>In [[composition]],<br /><b class="num">(1)</b>[[through]], as in [[διαβαίνω]]; <br /><b class="num">(2)</b>of [[separation]], [[asunder]], as in [[διασπάω]]; <br /><b class="num">(3)</b>of [[distribution]], [[abroad]], as in [[διαγγέλλω]]; <br /><b class="num">(4)</b>of [[transition]], as [[διαλλάσσω]]; <br /><b class="num">(5)</b>of "perfective" [[action]] (M, Pr., 112f., 115f.), as διαφύγω, [[διακαθαρίζω]].