αἴτιον
aítion · G158 · Greek · 0 occurrences
Meanings
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A reason or cause for an event or state, also used of guilt as a basis or reason for condemnation
This lexeme does not occur in the New Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions.
Near synonyms 1 word
- πρόφασις próphasis · G4392 · to pretend, pretense, excuse
- Greek noun for a stated reason or ostensible cause; while αἴτιον denotes a reason or charge in a more neutral sense, πρόφασις carries connotations of pretense or outward showing—an excuse or pretext rather than a genuine underlying reason
In the other Testament 1 word
- דָּבָר dâbâr · H1697 · words, message, word
- Hebrew noun commonly used for 'matter' or 'cause' in the sense of a case or legal charge, functionally equivalent to αἴτιον in forensic contexts
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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