ὅτι

(properly neuter of ὅστις), a conjunction (from Homer down) (Latinquod (cf. Winers Grammar, § 53, 8 b.; Buttmann, § 139, 51; § 149, 3)), marking:
I. the substance or contents (of a statement), that;
1. joined to verbs of saying and declaring (where the accusative and infinitive is used in Latin): ἀναγγέλλειν, Acts 14:27; διηγεῖσθαι, Acts 9:27; εἰπεῖν, Mt 16:20; Mt 28:7, Mt 28:13; Jn 7:42; Jn 16:15; 1 Cor 1:15; λέγειν, Mt 3:9; Mt 8:11; Mk 3:28; Lk 15:7; Jn 16:20; Rom 4:9 (T Tr WH omit; L brackets ὅτι); , and very often; προειρηκέναι, 2 Cor 7:3; before the ὅτι in Acts 14:22 supply λέγοντες, contained in the preceding παρακαλοῦντες (cf. Buttmann, § 151, 11); ὅτι after γράφειν, 1 Cor 9:10; 1 Jn 2:12-14; μαρτυρεῖν, Mt 23:31; Jn 1:34; Jn 3:28; Jn 4:44; ὁμολογεῖν, Heb 11:13; δεικνύειν, Mt 16:21; δηλουν, 1 Cor 1:11; διδάσκειν, 1 Cor 11:14. after ἐμφανίζειν, Heb 11:14; δῆλον (ἐστιν), 1 Cor 15:27; Gal 3:11; 1 Tim 6:7 (where L T Tr WH omit δῆλον (and then ὅτι simply introduces the reason, because (Buttmann, 358 (308) to the contrary))); φανεροῦμαι (for φανερόν γίνεται περί ἐμοῦ), 2 Cor 3:3; 1 Jn 2:19. It is added — to verbs of swearing, and to forms of oath and affirmation: ὄμνυμι, Rev 10:6; ζῶ ἐγώ (see ζάω, I. 1, p. 270{a}), Rom 14:11; μάρτυρα τόν Θεόν ἐπικαλοῦμαι, 2 Cor 1:23; πιστός ὁ Θεός, 2 Cor 1:18; ἐστιν ἀλήθεια Χριστοῦ ἐν ἐμοί, 2 Cor 11:10; ἰδού ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, Gal 1:20; cf. Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, ii., p. 242f; (Winers Grammar, § 53, 9; Buttmann, 394 (338)); — to verbs of perceiving, knowing, remembering, etc.: ἀκούειν, Jn 14:28; βλέπειν, 2 Cor 7:8; Heb 3:19; Jas 2:22; θέασθαι, Jn 6:5; γινώσκειν, Mt 21:45; Lk 10:11; Jn 4:53; 2 Cor 13:6; 1 Jn 2:5, etc.; after τοῦτο, Rom 6:6; εἰδέναι, Mt 6:32; Mt 22:16; Mk 2:10; Lk 2:49; Jn 4:42; Jn 9:20, Jn 9:24; Rom 2:2; Rom 6:9; Phm 4:15f, and very often γνωστόν ἐστιν, Acts 28:28; ἐπιγινώσκειν, Mk 2:8; Lk 1:22; Acts 4:13; ἐπίστασθαί, Acts 15:7; νόειν, Mt 15:17; ὁρᾶν, Jas 2:24; καταλαμβάνειν, Acts 4:13; Acts 10:34; συνιέναι, Mt 16:12; ἀγνοεῖν, Rom 1:13; Rom 2:4; Rom 6:3, etc.; ἀναγινώσκειν, Mt 12:5; Mt 19:4; μνημονεύειν, Jn 16:5; — to verbs of thinking, believing, judging, hoping: λογίζεσθαι, Jn 11:50 L T Tr WH; after τοῦτο, Rom 2:3; 2 Cor 10:11; νομίζειν, Mt 5:17; οἶμαι, Jas 1:7; πέπεισμαι, Rom 8:38; Rom 14:14; Rom 15:14; 2 Tim 1:5, 2 Tim 1:12; πεποιθέναι, Lk 18:9; 2 Cor 2:3; Phm 2:24; Gal 5:10; 2 Thess 3:4; Heb 13:18; πιστεύειν, Mt 9:28; Mk 11:23; Rom 10:9; ὑπολαμβάνειν, Lk 7:43; δοκεῖν, Mt 6:7; Mt 26:53; Jn 20:15; ἐλπίζειν, Lk 24:21; 2 Cor 13:6; κρίνειν τοῦτο ὅτι, 2 Cor 5:14 (15); — to verbs of emotion (where in Latin now the accusative and infinitive is used, nowquod): θαυμάζειν Lk 11:38; χαίρειν, Jn 14:28; 2 Cor 7:9, 2 Cor 7:16; Phm 4:10; 2 Jn 1:4; ἐν τούτῳ ὅτι, Lk 10:20; συγχαίρειν, Lk 15:6, Lk 15:9; μέλει μοι (σοι, αὐτῷ), Mk 4:38; Lk 10:40; — to verbs of praising, thanking, blaming (where the Latin usesquod): ἐπαινεῖν, Lk 16:8; 1 Cor 11:2, 1 Cor 11:17; ἐξομολογεῖσθαι, Mt 11:25; Lk 10:21; εὐχαριστεῖν, Lk 18:11; χάρις τῷ Θεῷ, Rom 6:17; χάριν ἔχω τίνι, 1 Tim 1:12; ἔχω κατά τίνος, ὅτι etc. Rev 2:4; ἔχω τοῦτο ὅτι, I have this (which is praiseworthy) that, Rev 2:6; add, Jn 7:23 (but here ὅτι is causal; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 53, 8 b.); 1 Cor 6:7; — to the verb εἶναι, when that precedes with a demons. pronoun, in order to define more exactly what thing is or wherein it may be seen: αὕτη ἐστιν ὅτι (Latinquod), Jn 3:19; ἐν τούτῳ ὅτι, 1 Jn 3:16; 1 Jn 4:9f, 13, etc.; περί τούτου ὅτι, Jn 16:19; οὐχ οἷον δέ ὅτι (see οἷος), Rom 9:6; — to the verbs γίνεσθαι and εἶναι with an interrogative pronoun, as τί γέγονεν ὅτι etc., what has come to pass that? our how comes it that? Jn 14:22; τί (L marginal reading τίς) ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος, ὅτι, Heb 2:6 from Ps 8:5. τίς ὁ λόγος οὗτος (namely, ἐστιν), ὅτι, Lk 4:36; ποταπός ἐστιν οὗτος, ὅτι, Mt 8:27; τίς ἡ διδαχή αὕτη, ὅτι, Mk 1:27 Rec.; add Mk 4:41.
2. in elliptical formulas (Buttmann, 358 (307); (Winer's Grammar, 585 (544) note)): τί ὅτι etc., equivalent to τί ἐστιν ὅτι (A. V. how is it that), wherefore? Mk 2:16 R G L (others omit τί; cf. 5 below, and see ὅστις, 4); Lk 2:49; Acts 5:4, Acts 5:9. οὐχ ὅτι for οὐ λέγω ὅτι, our not that, not as though, cf. Buttmann, § 150, 1; (Winer's Grammar, 597 (555)); thus, Jn 6:46; Jn 7:22; 2 Cor 1:24; 2 Cor 3:5; Phm 3:12; Phm 4:11. ὅτι is used for εἰς ἐκεῖνο ὅτι (in reference to the fact that (English seeing that, in that")): thus in Jn 2:18; (Meyer (see his note on 1 Cor 1:26) would add many other examples, among them Jn 9:17 (see below)); for ἐν τούτῳ ὅτι, Rom 5:8; for περί τούτου ὅτι, concerning this, that: so after λαλεῖν, Mk 1:34; Lk 4:41 (others take ὅτι, in these examples and those after διαλογ. which follow in a causal sense; cf. Winer's Grammar, as below (Ellicott on 2 Thess 3:7)); after λέγειν, Jn 9:17 (see above); after διαλογίζεσθαι, Mt 16:8; Mk 8:17 (after ἀποστέλλειν σπιστολας, 1 Macc. 12:7). See examples from classic authors in Fritzsche on Matthew, p. 248f; (Meyer, as above; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 53, 8b.).
3. Noteworthy is the attraction, not uncommon, by which the noun that would naturally be the subject of the subjoined clause, is attracted by the verb of the principal clause and becomes its object (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 66, 5; B § 151, 1 a.); as, οἴδατε τήν οἰκίαν Στεφανᾶ, ὅτι ἐστιν ἀπαρχή, for οἴδατε, ὅτι ἡ οἰκία Στεφανᾶ, κτλ., 1 Cor 16:15; also after εἰδέναι and ἰδεῖν, Mk 12:34; 1 Thess 2:1; so after other verbs of knowing, declaring, etc.: Mt 25:24; Jn 9:8; Acts 3:10; Acts 9:20; 1 Cor 3:20; 2 Thess 2:4; Rev 17:8, etc.; ὅν ὑμεῖς λέγετε ὅτι Θεός ὑμῶν ἐστι, for περί οὐ (cf. Lk 21:5) ὑμεῖς λέγετε ὅτι, Jn 8:54.
4. As respects construction, ὅτι is joined in the N. T.
a. to the indicative even where the opinion of another is introduced, and therefore according to classical usage the optative should have been used; as, διεστείλατο... ἵνα μηδενί εἴπωσιν, ὅτι αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός, Mt 16:20; add, ; Mt 4:12; , etc.
b. to that subjunctive after ὀυτ μή which differs scarcely at all from the future (see μή, IV. 2, p. 411a; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 508 (473))): Mt 5:20; Mt 26:29 (R G; others omit ὅτι); Mk 14:25; Lk 21:32; Jn 11:56 (where before ὅτι supply δοκεῖτε, borrowed from the preceding δοκεῖ); but in Rom 3:8 ὅτι before ποιήσωμεν (hortatory subjunctive (cf. Winers Grammar, § 41 a. 4 a.; Buttmann, 245 (211))) is recitative (see 5 below), depending on λέγουσι (Winers Grammar, 628 (583); Buttmann, § 141, 3).
c. to the infinitive, by a mingling of two constructions, common even in classic Greek, according to which the writer beginning the construction with ὅτι falls into the construction of the accusative with an infinitive: Acts 27:10; cf. Winers Grammar, 339 (318) N. 2; (sec. 63, 2c.; Buttmann, 383 (328)). On the anacoluthon found in 1 Cor 12:2, according to the reading ὅτι ὅτε (which appears in the Sinaiticus manuscript also (and is adopted by L brackets T Tr WH (yet cf. their note))), cf. Buttmann, 383f (328f).
5. ὅτι is placed before direct discourse (`recitative' ὅτι) (Buttmann,sec. 139, 51; Winer's Grammar, § 65, 3 c.; § 60, 9 (and Moulton's note)): Mt 2:23(?); Mt 7:23; Mt 16:7; Mt 21:16; Mt 26:72, Mt 26:74, Mt 27:43; Mark ( T Tr WH (see 2 above); but see ὅστις, 4); Mk 6:23; (cf. Buttmann, 237 (204)); Lk 1:61; Lk 2:23; Lk 4:43; Lk 15:27; Jn 1:20; Jn 4:17; Jn 15:25; Jn 16:17; Acts 15:1; Heb 11:18; 1 Jn 4:20; Rev 3:17, etc.; most frequently after λέγω, which see II. 1 a., p. 373{a} bottom (Noteworthy is 2 Thess 3:10, cf. Buttmann, § 139, 53.)
II. the reason why anything is said to be or to be done, because, since, for that, for (a causal conjunc.; Latinquod,quia,quom,nam); (on the difference between it and γάρ cf. Westcott, Epistles of John, p. 70);
a. it is added to a speaker's words to show what ground he gives for his opinion; as, μακάριος etc. ὅτι, Mt 5:4-12; Mt 13:16; Lk 6:20; Lk 14:14; after οὐαί, Mt 11:21; Mt 23:13-15, Mt 23:23, Mt 23:25, Mt 23:27, Mt 23:29; Lk 6:24; Lk 10:13; Lk 11:42-44, Lk 11:46, Lk 11:52; Jude 1:11; cf. further, Mt 7:13; Mt 17:15; Mt 25:8; Mk 5:9; Mk 9:38 (G Tr marginal reading omit; Tr text brackets the clause); Lk 7:47; Lk 23:40; Jn 1:30; Jn 5:27; Jn 9:16; Jn 16:9-11, Jn 16:14, Jn 16:16 (T Tr WH omit; L brackets the clause); Acts 1:5, and often; — or is added by the narrator, to give the reason for his own opinion: Mt 2:18; Mt 9:36; Mk 3:30; Mk 6:34; Jn 2:25; Acts 1:17; — or, in general, by a teacher, and often in such a way that it relates to his entire statement or views: Mt 5:43; 1 Jn 4:18; 2 Jn 1:7; Rev 3:10.
b. ὅτι makes reference to some word or words that precede or immediately follow it (cf. Winers Grammar, § 23, 5; § 53, 8 b.; Buttmann, § 127, 6); as, διά τοῦτο, Jn 8:47; Jn 10:17; Jn 12:39; 1 Jn 3:1, etc. διά τί; Rom 9:32; 2 Cor 11:11. χάριν τίνος; 1 Jn 3:12. οὕτως, Rev 3:16. ἐν τούτῳ, 1 Jn 3:20. ὅτι in the protasis, Jn 1:50(); . It is followed by διά τοῦτο, Jn 15:19. οὐχ ὅτι... ἀλλ' ὅτι, not because... but because, Jn 6:26; Jn 12:6.
III. On the combination ὡς ὅτι see ὡς, I. 3.
G3754 — ὅτι (interrog)
[ interrogative, i. e. ὁ, τί or ὁ τί, see ὅστις, 4 (and at the beginning).) ὅστις, 4 (and at the beginning).]