A-1 | Adjective | Strong's Number: g1313 | Greek: diaphoros |
A-2 | Adjective | Strong's Number: g4164 | Greek: poikilos |
Divers:
denotes "parti-colored, variegated" (poikillo means "to make gay:" the root of the first syllable is pik--, found in Eng., "picture"), hence "divers," Mat 4:24; Mar 1:34; Luk 4:40; 2Ti 3:6; Tts 3:3; Hbr 2:4 (RV, "manifold"); 13:9; Jam 1:2 (RV, "manifold"); in 1Pe 1:6; 4:10, "manifold," both AV and RV.
See MANIFOLD.
Notes:
(1) Cp. polupoikilos, Eph 3:10, "manifold" (lit., "much varied").
(2) The pronoun tines, "some" (the plural of tis, "someone"), is translated "divers" in the AV of Mar 8:3; Act 19:9; RV, "some."
(3) In 1Cr 12:28, genos, in the plural, is rendered "divers kinds."
See DIVERSITIES.
B-1 | Adverb | Strong's Number: g4187 | Greek: polutropos |
Divers:
means "in many ways" (polus, "much," tropos, "a manner, way;" Eng., "trope"), "in divers manners," Hbr 1:1.
Note: The phrase kata topous, lit., "throughout places" (kata, "down, or throughout," in a distributive sense, topos, "a place"), is translated "in divers places," in Mat 24:7; Mar 13:8; Luk 21:11.
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