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Strong's #1369 - διχάζω
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- to cut into two parts, cleave asunder, sever
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δῐχάζω,
fut. -άσω Plot. 5.3.10: —
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1. divide in two, Pl. Plt. 264d (of logical dichotomy): — Pass., Nonn. D. 3.33, al.; αἴγειρος.. δισσοῖσι κλάδοις δεδιχασμένη ἑνὸς ἐκ στελέχους Lyr.in Philol. 80.334; δεδιχασμένον διχασμῷ Aq. De. 14.6. divide by two, Nicom. Ar. 1.7, al. (Pass.).
2. δ. τινὰ κατά τινος divide one against another, Matthew 10:35.
II intr., to be divided, interpol. in X. An. 4.8.18; διχαζούσης ἡμέρας at mid -day, Anon. ap. Suid.
διχάζω: 1 aorist infinitive διχάσαι; (δίχα); to cut into two parts, cleave asunder, dissever: Plato, polit., p. 264 d.; metaphorically, διχάζω τινα κατά τίνος, to set one at variance with (literally, against) another: Matthew 10:35. (Cf. Fischer, De vitiis lexamples etc., p. 334f.)
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** διχάζω
(δίχα , apart),
[in Aq.: Leviticus 1:17, Deuteronomy 14:6 *;]
to cut apart, divide in two; metaph., to set at variance: Matthew 10:35.†
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We are unable to cite any vernacular instances of this verb (found in Plato); but δίχα is common, e.g. P Oxy II. 237viii. 37 (A.D. 186) δίχα ἐπιστάλματος τοῦ βιβλιοφυλακ [ίου, ";without an order from the record-office,"; P Giss I. 66.3 (early ii/A.D.) δίχα τῆς ἡμετέρας ἐπισ ̣τολ [ῆς, BGU III. 908.22 (time of Trajan) δίχα πάσης ἐξουσίας ἐπελθόντες etc.
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