Lexical Summary aitios: causative of, responsible for Original Word: αἴτιοςTransliteration: aitios Phonetic Spelling: (ah'-ee-tee-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: causative of, responsible for Meaning: causative of, responsible for Strong's Concordance author. From the same as aiteo; causative, i.e. (concretely) a causer -- author. see GREEK aiteo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 159: αἴτιοςαἴτιος, , , that in which the cause of anything resides, causative, causing. Hence, 1. ὁ αἴτιος the author: σωτηρίας, Hebrews 5:9 (the same phrase is frequent in secular writings; cf. the opposite αἴτιος τῆς ἀπωλείας in Bel and the Dragon, verse 2. τό αἴτιον equivalent to ἡ αἰτία; cause: Acts 19:40 (cf. Buttmann, 400 (342) n.). b. crime, offence: Luke 23:4, 14, 22. (αἴτιος culprit.) (See αἰτία, 3.) |
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