2001 Translation

AITION, aition

Sounds Like: ai-TI-on

Translations: cause, a cause, reason, a reason, responsible, guilty, blame

From the root: ΑἸΤΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun, Adjective

Explanation: This word refers to the cause or reason for something, or someone who is responsible or guilty for an action or outcome. It can function as both a noun, meaning 'a cause' or 'a reason,' and as an adjective, meaning 'responsible' or 'guilty.' It is often used to identify the origin or source of an event or state.

Inflection: Neuter, Singular, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G0159 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 6:8

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 12:68, 17:166, 17:170, 36:250
• Book Two — 17:166, 17:170, 36:250

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 3:89
• Book 2 — 2:8, 8:198, 10:252
• Book 3 — 3:64
• Book 4 — 1:4, 8:211, 8:290
• Book 6 — 6:123, 6:128, 10:197, 11:220
• Book 7 — 2:47, 4:75, 14:362
• Book 8 — 6:154, 10:251
• Book 9 — 9:193, 10:210, 10:211
• Book 10 — 1:10, 3:41, 4:72
• Book 11 — 5:131, 6:278, 8:308
• Book 12 — 2:84
• Book 13 — 12:321
• Book 14 — 8:136, 10:254
• Book 15 — 5:129
• Book 16 — 3:70, 7:197, 8:246, 8:268
• Book 17 — 4:82, 6:148, 6:164, 12:329
• Book 19 — 1:37, 2:207

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:8, 20:6
• Book Two — 1:1, 8:17, 12:18, 21:58
• Book Three — 5:32
• Book Four — 1:43, 2:35, 8:32
• Book Five — 1:33
• Book Seven — 8:47

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:6
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 5:6

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 34:170, 65:342

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 4:47, 13:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 23:4, 23:14, 23:22

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑἸΤΙΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΑἸΤΙΟΙ — responsible, responsible for, cause, guilty, those responsible, the causes
• ΑἸΤΙΟΙΣ — responsible, guilty, cause, reason, a cause, a reason, (to) the responsible ones, (to) the guilty ones, (to) the causes, (to) the reasons
• ΑἸΤΙΟΣ — responsible, cause, author, guilty, a cause, a guilty one
• ΑἸΤΙΟΥ — of a cause, of a reason, of a charge, of a fault, of a guilt, of a guilty person, of a responsible person, of an accused person
• ΑἸΤΙΟΥΣ — guilty, responsible, cause, author, a cause, an author
• ΑἸΤΙΩΤΑΤΟΙΣ — (to) the most responsible, (to) the most blameworthy, (to) the most guilty
• ΑἸΤΙΩΤΑΤΟΥΣ — most responsible, most guilty, most to blame, the most responsible ones, the most guilty ones
• ΤΟΥΣΑἸΤΙΟΥΣ — the responsible ones, the guilty ones, the causes, the authors, the blameworthy ones, the accused

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