1223.  Strong's Dictionary Study



1223. dia {dee-ah'}; a primary preposition denoting the channel 
of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or 
occasional): --after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of 
(that), briefly, by, for (cause)...fore, from, in, by occasion 
of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X 
though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with(-in). In composition 
it retains the same general import.[ql ***. Dia. See 2203.[ql



 

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