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DIVERS
A. Adjectives.
1.
(
1 $
, 1313) is rendered divers in Heb. 9:10. See
DIFFER
, C.
2.
(
&
, 4164) denotes “particolored, variegated” (
means “to
make gay”: the root of the first syllable is
, found in Eng., “picture”), hence “divers,”
Matt. 4:24; Mark 1:34; Luke 4:40; 2 Tim. 3:6; Titus 3:3; Heb. 2:4 (
RV
, “manifold”), 13:9;
Jas. 1:2 (
RV
, “manifold”); in 1 Pet. 1:6 and 4:10, “manifold,” both
KJV
and
RV
. See
MANIFOLD
.¶
Notes:
(1) Cf.
$
, Eph. 3:10, “manifold” (lit., “much varied”).
(2) The pronoun
, “some” (the plural of
, “someone”), is translated “divers” in
the
KJV
of Mark 8:3 and Acts 19:9;
RV
, “some.”
(3) In 1 Cor. 12:28,
, in the plural, is rendered “divers kinds.” See
DIVERSITIES
.
B. Adverb.
$
(
$
, 4187) means “in many ways” (
$
, “much,”
, “a
manner, way”; Eng., “trope”), “in divers manners,” Heb. 1:1.¶
Note:
The phrase
$
, lit., “throughout places” (
, “down, or throughout,”
in a distributive sense,
, “a place”), is translated “in divers places,” in Matt. 24:7;
Mark 13:8 and Luke 21:11.
DIVERSITY, DIVERSITIES
(
&$
, 1243): See
DIFFER
, B, No. 1.
: & 5
, “a kind, class, sort” (Eng., “genus”), is translated “diversities” in the
KJV
of 1 Cor. 12:28 (marg., “kinds”);
RV
, “divers kinds.”
DIVIDE, DIVIDER, DIVIDING
A. Verbs.
1.
(
$&
, 873), lit., “to mark off by boundaries or limits” ( , “from,”
, “to determine, mark out”), denotes “to separate”; “divideth,” Matt. 25:32,
KJV
;
RV
, “separateth,” as in the preceding part of the verse. See
SEPARATE
,
SEVER
2.
(
$!
, 1244), lit., “to take asunder” (see
DIFFER
, B, No. 1), “to divide
into parts, to distribute,” is found in Luke 15:12 and 1 Cor. 12:11.¶
3.
(
&
, 1239): see
DISTRIBUTE
, A, No. 1.
4.
(
$&
, 1252), “to separate,” discriminate, hence, “to be at variance
with oneself, to be divided in one’s mind,” is rendered “divided” in Jas. 2:4,
RV
;
KJV
,
“partial.” See
DISCERN
.
5.
(
&
, 1096), “to become,” is translated “was divided” in Rev. 16:19
(of “the great city”), lit., “became into three parts.”
6.
(
$&
, 3307), akin to
, “a part, to part, divide into,” in the middle
voice means “to divide anything with another, to share with.” The usual meaning is “to
divide,” Matt. 12:25, 26; Mark 3:24-26; 6:41; Luke 12:13 (middle voice); Rom. 12:3,