διόπερ
dióper · G1355 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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therefore, for this reason, for this very reason, so then
A relatively emphatic marker of result, usually denoting the fact that the inference is self-evident
Examples1 Corinthians 8:13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to sin.
1 Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- τοιγαροῦν toigaroûn · G5105 · for this very reason, therefore, hence
- τοιγαροῦν and the target term both function as inferential conjunctions marking logical consequence (“therefore”), occupying the same narrow semantic space of drawing an inference, though one is far rarer than the other.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Therefore, for this reason, for this very reason, so then89.47
- Used of drawing a logical conclusion, as of God's oath being given for this very reason, so that by two unchangeable things believers might have strong encouragement in Hebrews 6:17-18, and the exhortation that we ought all the more to pay attention to what we have heard in Hebrews 2:1.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon conjunction (from διό and the enclitic particle περ (which see)) (from Thucydides down);…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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