διά (before a vowel δ᾽, exc. Rz 8,10, 2 Kor 5,7, and in (Proper name)s; Tdf., Pr., 94), prep. with genitive, accusative, as in cl.; 1. with genitive, through; (i) of Place, after verbs of motion or action: Mt 2,12; 12,43, Mk 2,23, Łk 4,30, J 4,4, 2 Kor 11,33, al.; σώζεσθαι (διας-) δ. πυρός, ὕδατος, 1 Kor 3,15, 1 P 3,20; βλέπειν δ. ἐσόπτρου, 1 Kor 13,12 metaphorically, of a state or condition: Rz 14,20, 2 Kor 2,4; 5,7, 10; δ. γράμματος, ἀκροβυστίας (Lft., Notes, 263, 279), Rz 2,27; 4,11; δι ̓ὑπομενῆς, Rz 8,25 (ii) Of Time; (a) during which: Mt 26,61, Mk 14,58, Łk 5,5; δ. παντὸς τοῦ ζῆν, Hbr 2,15 δ. παντός (διαπαντός in Mk 5,5, Łk 24,53), always, continually, Mt 18,10, Dz 2,25" (LXX) 10:2 24:16, Rz 11,10" (LXX), 2 Tes 3,16, Hbr 9,6; 13,15. (b) within which: Dz 1,3 δ. νυκτός, Dz 5,19; 16,9; 17,10; 23,31; (with) after which (Field, Notes, 20; Abbott, JG, 255f.): Mk 2,1, Dz 24,17, Ga 2,1. (iii) Of the Means or Instrument; (1) of the efficient cause (regarded also as the instrument): of God, Rz 11,36, 1 Kor 1,9, Ga 4,7, Hbr 2,10; 7,21; of Christ, Rz 1,8; 5,1.17, 1 Kor 15,21, 1 P 4,11, al.; δ. τ. ὑμῶν δεήσεως, Rz 1,12, 2 Kor 1,4, Ga 4,23, al.; (2) of the agent, instrument or means; (a) with genitive of person(s), Mt 11,2, Łk 1,70, J 1,17, Dz 1,16, Rz 2,16, 1 Kor 1,21, Ef 1,5, Hbr 2,14, Ap 1,1, al.; ὑπὸ τ. κυρίου δ. τ. προφήτου (δ. τ. κυρίου, 1 Tes 4,2 (M, Th., in l.); Lft., Rev., 121f.), Mt 1,22; 2,15, Rz 1,2; δ. ἐπιστολῆς ὡς δ. ἡμῶν (Field, Notes, 202), 2 Tes 2,2 δ. Σ. (NTD, 22), 1 P 5,12 (b) with genitive of thing(s) (where often the simple dative is used in cl.; Jannaris, Gr., 375), J 11,4, Dz 5,12; δ. τ. πίστεως, Rz 3,30 δ. λόγου θεοῦ, 1 P 1,23 δ. παραβολῆς, Łk 8,4 δουλεύειν δ. τ. ἀγάπης, Ga 5,13 δ. ἐπαγγελίας, Ga 3,18, 2. C. accusative; (i) rarely, as with genitive, through (Hom), δ. μέσον Σαμαρίας (ICC, in l.; Bl., §42, 1; Robertson, Gr., 581), Łk 17,11 (ii) by reason of, because of, for the sake of; (a) with accusative of person(s) (M, Pr., 105), Mk 2,27, J 6,57; 11,42, Rz 8,20; (b) with accusative of thing(s), δ. φθόνον, Mt 27,18, Mk 15,10; δ. φόβον, J 7,13; 20,19; δ. ἀγάπην, Ef 2,4 δ. τοῦτο, freq., for this cause, therefore, Mt 6,25, Mk 6,14, Łk 11,49, J 6,65, al.; id. before ὅτι, J 5,16; 10,17, al.; δ. τί, why, Mt 9,11.14 Mk 2,18, J 7,45, al.; δ. τό, with inf., Mk 5,4, Łk 9,7, Jk 4,2. 3. In composition, (1) through, as in διαβαίνω; (2) of separation, asunder, as in διασπάω; (3) of distribution, abroad, as in διαγγέλλω; (4) of transition, as διαλλάσσω; (5) of "perfective" action (M, Pr., 112f., 115f.), as διαφύγω, διακαθαρίζω. (AS)