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 
importance.