through/because of
dia is a preposition that marks the means, agency, reason, or intervening route by which a statement is framed.
As a preposition, dia links clauses to a means or agent, as revelation is reported through those who preached in 1 Peter 1:12 and victory is given through the Lord Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 15:57; it also introduces stated reasons, as the present necessity explains the counsel in 1 Corinthians 7:26. The same grammatical role can frame a route or intervening circumstance, as the fathers passed through the sea in 1 Corinthians 10:1 and present sight is described through a mirror in 1 Corinthians 13:12.
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Preposition marking means, cause, or intervening relation · dominant
The supplied forms are all tagged simply as Preposition and connect a clause with its stated means, agent, reason, or route. In 1 Peter 1:12 the APB renders the report as coming “through those who preached,” in 1 Corinthians 7:26 it renders the counsel as given “because of the present necessity,” and in 1 Corinthians 10:1 it renders the fathers as having passed “through the sea.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the prepositional relation with “through,” “because of,” “on account of,” and “by,” while some instances may be absorbed into the translation’s broader wording. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.