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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Adjective Strong's Number: g1313 Greek: diaphoros

Divers:

is rendered "divers" in Hbr 9:10.
See DIFFER, C.

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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