Divers
Divers
is rendered “divers” in Heb 9:10. See DIFFER, C.
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; Tit 3:3; Heb 2:4 (RV, “manifold”); Heb 13:9; Jam 1:2 (RV, “manifold”); in 1Pe 1:6; 1Pe 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 1Co 12:28, genos, in the plural, is rendered “divers kinds.” See DIVERSITIES.
means “in many ways” (polus, “much,” tropos, “a manner, way;” Eng., “trope”), “in divers manners,” Heb 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.