Aitios means “author” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H159 — ohab (“love”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G159 αἴτιος (aitios) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aitios (ai'-tee-os) adj. 1. causative 2. (concretely) a causer (i.e. initiator) It has 9 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include author. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
aitios (ai'-tee-os) adj. 1. causative 2. (concretely) a causer (i.e. initiator) [of the same uncertain derivation as G154] KJV: author See also: G154, G155, G156
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G159. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
causer
Usage: αἴτιος, -α, ὁ (αἰτία), [in LXX: 1Ki.22:22 (סבב) Dan LXX Bel 41, TH ib. 42, Su 53, 2Ma.4:47 13:4, 4Ma.1:11 * ;] __1. causative of, responsible for; as subst., ὁ αἰ., the cause, author: Heb.5:9; τὸ αἰ., the cause, Act.19:40. __2. blameworthy, culpable; as subst., ὁ αἰ., the culprit, the accused (Lat. reus); τὸ αἰ. (= αἰτία, 3), the crime, Luk.23:4,14,22. † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aitios, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G159 (αἴτιος) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And David said to Abiathar, I knew it in that day, that Doeg the Syrian would surely tell Saul: I am guilty of the death of the house of thy father.
7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.
But the King of kings moved Antiochus’ mind against this wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from their persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G159.
And David said to Abiathar, I knew it in that day, that Doeg the Syrian would surely tell Saul: I am guilty of the death of the house of thy father.
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.
But the King of kings moved Antiochus’ mind against this wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from their persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G159, grouped by book.
Aitios (Strong's G159) is a Greek word most simply glossed "author". aitios (ai'-tee-os) adj. 1. causative 2. (concretely) a causer (i.e. initiator)
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G159 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G159 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as author. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G159, with linked reader references where each row is available.
