2001 Translation

AITIA, aitia

Sounds Like: ai-TEE-ah

Translations: cause, a cause, reason, a reason, charge, a charge, accusation, an accusation, fault, a fault

From the root: ΑἸΤΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the underlying cause or reason for an event or action. It can also denote a legal charge or accusation brought against someone, or the fault for something. It is used to explain why something happened or why someone is being blamed.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G0156 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:37

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 3:27, 9:205
• Book 3 — 1:11, 2:56
• Book 4 — 6:127, 8:180, 8:299
• Book 5 — 1:113
• Book 14 — 9:173
• Book 15 — 5:131
• Book 16 — 4:109, 4:119, 5:159, 11:393
• Book 17 — 6:166, 9:243
• Book 18 — 8:277, 9:371
• Book 19 — 1:19, 1:37, 1:140, 1:157

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Seven — 8:96, 8:109

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:1, 0:2
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 47:4, 92:2, 140:4

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:9

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 4:13
• Proverbs — 28:17
• Job — 18:14
• Wisdom — 14:27

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 19:10
• Acts — 10:21

From the same root

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

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.

• ΑἸΤΙΑΙ — cause, reason, charge, accusation, fault, a cause, a reason, a charge, an accusation, a fault
• ΑἸΤΙΑΙΣ — causes, reasons, charges, accusations, pretexts, grounds, (for) causes, (for) reasons, (for) charges, (for) accusations, (for) pretexts, (for) grounds
• ΑἸΤΙΑΝ — cause, a cause, reason, a reason, charge, a charge, accusation, an accusation, fault, a fault
• ΑἸΤΙΑΣ — of cause, of reason, of charge, of accusation, of fault, of a cause, of a reason, of a charge, of an accusation, of a fault
• ΑἸΤΙΩΝ — of causes, of reasons, of charges, of accusations, of responsibilities, of faults
• ΗΝΑἸΤΙΑΝ — the cause, the reason, the charge, the blame, a cause, a reason, a charge, a blame
• ΜΕΝΑἸΤΙΑΣ — of cause, of reason, of blame, of accusation, of fault, of responsibility
• ΤΑΣΑἸΤΙΑΣ — the causes, the reasons, the charges, the accusations, the faults, the blames
• ΤΗΝΑἸΤΙΑΝ — the cause, the reason, the charge, a cause, a reason, a charge
• ΤΩΝΑἸΤΙΩΝ — of the causes, of the reasons, of the charges, of the accusations

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