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Divers

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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A — 1: διάφορος

(Strong's #1313 — Adjective — disphoros — dee-af'-or-os )

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

A — 2: ποικίλος

(Strong's #4164 — Adjective — poikilos — poy-kee'-los )

denotes "parti-colored, variegated" (poikillo means "to make gay:" the root of the first syllable is pik---, found in Eng., "picture"), hence "divers," Matthew 4:24; Mark 1:34; Luke 4:40; 2 Timothy 3:6; Titus 3:3; Hebrews 2:4 (RV, "manifold"); 13:9; James 1:2 (RV, "manifold"); in 1 Peter 1:6; 4:10 , "manifold," both AV and RV. See MANIFOLD.

Notes: (1) Cp. polupoikilos, Ephesians 3:10 , "manifold" (lit., "much varied").

(2) The pronoun tines, "some" (the plural of tis, "someone"), is translated "divers" in the AV of Mark 8:3; Acts 19:9; RV, "some."

(3) In 1 Corinthians 12:28 , genos, in the plural, is rendered "divers kinds." See DIVERSITIES.

B — 1: πολυτρόπως

(Strong's #4187 — Adverb — polutropos — pol-oot-rop'-oce )

means "in many ways" (polus, "much," tropos, "a manner, way;" Eng., "trope"), "in divers manners," Hebrews 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 Matthew 24:7; Mark 13:8; Luke 21:11 .

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Divers'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​d/divers.html. 1940.
 
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