Greek Lexicon G1201–G1300 (Strong's)

G1201

δεσμωτήριον (desmōtḗrion)

(des-mo-tay'-ree-on | theh-smoh-TAY-ree-one | thay-smoh-TAY-ree-one)

Definition

from a derivative of G1199 (equivalent to G1196); a place of bondage, i.e., a dungeon; prison.

  • a prison, a jail

See also

G1196, G1199

G1202

δεσμώτης (desmṓtēs)

(des-mo'-tace | theh-SMOH-tase | thay-SMOH-tase)

Definition

from the same as G1201; (passively) a captive; prisoner.

  • one bound, a prisoner

See also

G1201

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1202.1–G1202.2 below.

G1202.1

δεσπόζω (despozō)

(des-PO-zoh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb of δεσπότης (G1203, sovereign master) — to be master, hold absolute sway. The Psalter's word for the LORD's uncontested rule — even in the passion psalm, where lament turns to praise: "the kingdom is the LORD's, and He is master of the nations."

  • to be master, hold sway
  • to rule as lord

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Chronicles 29:11 ("Yours, O LORD, is the greatness... You are master of all" — David's doxology); Psalm 22:28 ("the kingdom is the LORD's, and He is master of the nations"); Psalm 66:7 (He is master in His dominion into the eon); Psalm 89:9 ("You are master of the raging of the sea" — the Davidic-covenant psalm).

See also

G1203

G1202.2

δεσποτεία (despoteia)

(des-po-TEE-ah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — mastery, absolute dominion (from δεσπότης, sovereign master — the address of the praying church, Acts 4:24). The mem-line of the great kingdom-psalm: 'Your kingdom is a kingdom of all the eons, and Your mastery is in every generation and generation' — and the Greek carries the acrostic's missing nun-line with it: 'Trustworthy is the Lord in all His words, and sacred in all His works' (Psalm 145:13) — dominion and dependability in one breath.

  • mastery
  • dominion

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 145:13 (Your kingdom is a kingdom of all the eons, and Your mastery is in every generation and generation — trustworthy is the LORD in all His words, and sacred in all His works).

G1203

δεσπότης (despótēs)

(des-pot'-ace | theh-SPOH-tase | thay-SPOH-tase)

Definition

perhaps from G1210 and πόσις (a husband); an absolute ruler ("despot"); Lord, master.

  • a master, Lord

See also

G1210

G1204

δεῦρο (deûro)

(dyoo'-ro | THEV-roh | THAVE-roh)

Definition

of uncertain affinity; here; used also imperative hither!; and of time, hitherto; come (hither), hither(-to).

  • of place,
    • hither to this place
    • in urging and calling, here! come!
  • of time, hither to, now

G1205

δεῦτε (deûte)

(dyoo'-teh | THEV-teh | THAYF-tay)

Definition

from G1204 and an imperative form of εἶμι (to go); come hither!; come, X follow.

  • come hither, come here, come
  • interjection, come!, come now!

See also

G1204

G1206

δευτεραῖος (deuteraîos)

(dyoo-ter-ah'-yos | thev-teh-REH-ose | thayf-tay-RAY-ose)

Definition

from G1208; secondary, i.e., (specially) on the second day; next day.

  • of or belonging to the second
  • of one who comes or does a thing, on the second day

See also

G1208

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1206.1–G1206.2 below.

G1206.1

δευτερεύω (deutereuō)

(dhef-teh-REV-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to hold the second place, be of second rank (from δεύτερος, second). Of the second order of priests and the second chariot of a king.

  • to be second in rank
  • to hold second place

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Kings 23:4 (Josiah commands the high priest and the priests of the second order to bring out of the temple all the vessels made for Baal); 2 Chronicles 35:24 (wounded Josiah is lifted from his chariot into his second chariot and brought to Jerusalem to die); Esther 4:8 (the document standing second — the duplicate of the decree of destruction — given to Hathach to show Esther); Jeremiah 52:24 (the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the priest of second rank).

G1206.2

δευτερονόμιον (deuteronomion)

(dev-teh-ro-NO-mee-on)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — the "second law," the copy of the law (δεύτερος, second + νόμος, law) — the LXX word that became the name of the book Deuteronomy. The king's charter-copy written for himself from the priests' scroll, that his heart not be lifted above his brothers — and the copy Joshua wrote upon the stones of Ebal.

  • second law
  • copy of the law

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 17:18 (and it shall be, whenever he should sit upon the throne of his rule — that he shall write for himself this second law in a scroll from the priests, the Levites); Joshua 8:32 (Joshua wrote upon the stones the second law — the law of Moses, which he wrote before the sons of Israel).

G1207

δευτερόπρωτος (deuteróprōtos)

(dyoo-ter-op'-ro-tos | thev-teh-ROH-proh-tose | thayf-tay-ROH-proh-tose)

Definition

from G1208 and G4413; second-first, i.e., (specially) a designation of the Sabbath immediately after the Paschal week (being the second after Passover day, and the first of the seven Sabbaths intervening before Pentecost); second...after the first.

  • second-first
  • the second of the first Sabbaths after the feast of the Passover

See also

G1208, G4413

G1208

δεύτερος (deúteros)

(dyoo'-ter-os | THEV-teh-rose | THAYF-tay-rose)

Definition

as the comparative of G1417; (ordinal) second (in time, place, or rank; also adverb); afterward, again, second(-arily) (time).

  • the second, the other of two

See also

G1417

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1208.1–G1208.2 below.

G1208.1

δευτερόω (deuteroō)

(dhef-teh-RO-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from δεύτερος (G1208, second); to do a second time, repeat. Pharaoh's doubled dream is read by this word — "repeated twice, because the thing is fixed from God" — and on Carmel Elijah commands the drenching of the altar "a second time" before the fire falls.

  • to repeat, do a second time
  • to double

Septuagint usage

7 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 41:32 (the dream repeated to Pharaoh twice — because the word is established from God, and He hastens to do it); 1 Kings 18:34 (do it a second time — and they did it a second time — Carmel's altar drenched before the fire); 2 Samuel 20:10 (Joab struck Amasa once and did not repeat the blow); Nehemiah 13:21 (if you repeat it, I will lay hands on you — the sabbath merchants warned).

See also

G1208

G1208.2

δευτέρωσις (deuterōsis)

(dev-teh-RO-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — the second rank, second order (from δεύτερος, second). In the deportation inventory: 'the chief guard took Seraiah the first priest, and Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three keepers of the threshold' — the temple's entire chain of command marched to Riblah and struck down (2 Kings 25:18-21): the priesthood's ranks emptied, until a 'priest forever' of another order stands (Psalm 110:4).

  • second rank

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Kings 25:18 (and the chief guard took Seraiah the foremost priest, and Zephaniah the priest of the second rank — and the three guarding the money).

G1209

δέχομαι (déchomai)

(dekh'-om-ahee | THEH-hoh-meh | THAY-hoh-may)

Definition

middle voice of a primary verb; to receive (in various applications, literally or figuratively); accept, receive, take.

  • to take with the hand
    • to take hold of, take up
  • to take up, receive
    • used of a place receiving one
    • to receive or grant access to, a visitor, not to refuse intercourse or friendship
      • to receive hospitality
      • to receive into one's family to bring up or educate
    • of the thing offered in speaking, teaching, instructing
      • to receive favorably, give ear to, embrace, make one's own, approve, not to reject
    • to receive, i.e., to take upon one's self, sustain, bear, endure
  • to receive, get
    • to learn

Note

Compare G2983.

See also

G2983

G1210

δέω (déō)

(deh'-o | THEH-oh | THAY-oh)

Definition

a primary verb; to bind (in various applications, literally or figuratively); bind, be in bonds, knit, tie, wind.

  • to bind tie, fasten
    • to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains
    • metaphorically
      • Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright
      • to bind, put under obligation, of the law, duty etc.
        • to be bound to one, a wife, a husband
      • to forbid, prohibit, declare to be illicit

See also

G1163, G1189

G1211

δή (dḗ)

(day | thay | thay)

Definition

probably akin to G1161; a particle of emphasis or explicitness; now, then, etc; also, and, doubtless, now, therefore.

  • now, then, verily, in truth, really, surely, certainly
  • forthwith, at once

See also

G1161

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1211.1 below.

G1211.1

δῆγμα (dēgma)

(DEEG-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a bite; a stab, stroke (from δάκνω, to bite). In the oracle that begins at Bethlehem: 'and this shall be the peace: whenever the Assyrian should come upon our land... there shall be roused against him seven shepherds and eight bites of men' — where the Hebrew musters 'eight princes,' the Greek hears the counter-attack as teeth. Either way the head of the sentence stands two verses earlier: 'this One shall be peace' (Micah 5:2-5).

  • bite
  • stroke

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Micah 5:5 (and this shall be the peace: whenever the Assyrian should come upon our land, and whenever he should mount upon our place — there shall be roused up against him seven shepherds and eight strikes of men).

G1212

δῆλος (dēlos)

(day'-los | THAY-lose | THAY-lose)

Definition

of uncertain derivation; clear; + bewray, certain, evident, manifest.

  • clear, evident, manifest

G1213

δηλόω (dēlóō)

(day-lo'-o | thay-LOH-oh | thay-LOH-oh)

Definition

from G1212; to make plain (by words); declare, shew, signify.

  • to make manifest
  • to make known by relating, to declare
  • to give one to understand, to indicate, signify

See also

G1212

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1213.1 below.

G1213.1

δήλωσις (dēlōsis)

(DHEE-lo-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a making-plain: manifestation, disclosure (from δηλόω above, to make evident). The LXX's rendering of the Urim — the breastpiece of judgment carried "the Manifestation and the Truth" over Aaron's heart — and the psalmist's confession that the manifestation of God's words gives light.

  • manifestation
  • disclosure

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 28:30 (into the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Manifestation and the Truth, and they shall be over Aaron's heart when he goes in before the LORD); Leviticus 8:8 (at the ordination — he placed the breastpiece on him, and put in it the Manifestation and the Truth); Psalms 119:130 (the manifestation of Your words gives light — it gives understanding to the simple).

G1214

Δημᾶς (Dēmâs)

(day-mas' | thay-MAHS | thay-MAHS)

Definition

governor of the people; probably for G1216; Demas, a Christian; Demas.

  • a companion of Paul, who deserted the apostle when he was a prisoner at Rome and returned to Thessalonica

See also

G1216

G1215

δημηγορέω (dēmēgoréō)

(day-may-gor-eh'-o | thay-may-goh-REH-oh | thay-may-goh-RAY-oh)

Definition

from a compound of G1218 and G58; to be a people-gatherer, i.e., to address a public assembly; make an oration.

  • to address a public assembly, make a speech to the people

See also

G58, G1218

G1216

Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios)

(day-may'-tree-os | thay-MAY-tree-ose | thay-MAY-tree-ose)

Definition

belonging to Ceres; from Δημήτηρ (Ceres); Demetrius, the name of an Ephesian and of a Christian; Demetrius.

  • a heathen silversmith at Ephesus
  • a certain Christian, 3Jo 12

G1217

δημιουργός (dēmiourgós)

(day-me-oor-gos' | thay-mee-oor-GOSE | thay-mee-oor-GOSE)

Definition

from G1218 and G2041; a worker for the people, i.e., mechanic (spoken of the Creator); maker.

  • a workman for the public
  • the author of any work, an artisan, framer, builder

See also

G1218, G2041

G1218

δῆμος (dēmos)

(day'-mos | THAY-mose | THAY-mose)

Definition

from G1210; the public (as bound together socially); people.

  • the people, the mass of people assembled in a public place

See also

G1210

G1219

δημόσιος (dēmósios)

(day-mos'ee-os | thay-MOH-see-ose | thay-MOH-see-ose)

Definition

from G1218; public; (feminine singular dative case as adverb) in public; common, openly, publickly.

  • belonging to the people or state, public
  • publicly, in public places, in full view of all

See also

G1218

G1220

δηνάριον (dēnárion)

(day-nar'-ee-on | thay-NA-ree-one | thay-NA-ree-one)

Definition

containing ten; of Latin origin; a denarius (or ten asses); pence, penny(-worth).

  • A Roman silver coin in New Testament time

Note

It took its name from it being equal to ten "asses," a number after 217 BC increased to sixteen (about 3.898 grams or .1375 oz.). It was the principal silver coin of the Roman empire. From the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, it would seem that a denarius was then the ordinary pay for a day's wages (see Matthew 20:2–13).

G1221

δήποτε (dḗpote)

(day'-pot-eh | THAY-poh-teh | THAY-poh-tay)

Definition

from G1211 and G4218; a particle of generalization; indeed, at any time; (what-)soever.

  • now at length
  • at any time
  • at last
  • just exactly

See also

G1211, G4218

G1222

δήπου (dḗpou)

(day'-poo | THAY-poo | THAY-poo)

Definition

from G1211 and G4225; a particle of asseveration; indeed doubtless; verily.

  • it is used when something is affirmed in a slightly ironical manner, as if with an pretence of uncertainty
    • perhaps
    • doubtless
    • verily
    • truly

See also

G1211, G4225

G1223

διά (diá)

(dee-ah' | thee-AH | thee-AH)

Definition

a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional); after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause)...fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with(-in).

  • through
    • of place
      • with
      • in
    • of time
      • throughout
      • during
    • of means
      • by
      • by the means of
  • through
    • the ground or reason by which something is or is not done
      • by reason of
      • on account of
      • because of for this reason
      • therefore
      • on this account

G1224

διαβαίνω (diabaínō)

(dee-ab-ah'-ee-no | thee-ah-VEH-noh | thee-ah-VAY-noh)

Definition

from G1223 and the base of G939; to cross; come over, pass (through).

  • to pass through, cross over

See also

G939, G1223

G1225

διαβάλλω (diabállō)

(dee-ab-al'-lo | thee-ah-VAHL-loh | thee-ah-VAHL-loh)

Definition

from G1223 and G906; (figuratively) to traduce; accuse.

  • to throw over or across, to send over
  • to traduce, calumniate, slander, accuse, defame

See also

G906, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1225.1 below.

G1225.1

διάβασις (diabasis)

(thee-AH-va-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Feminine noun from διαβαίνω (G1224, to cross over); a ford, crossing-place — the Jabbok ford where Jacob wrestled, and the Jordan fords seized in Judges as the choke-points of battle.

  • ford, crossing-place

Septuagint usage

10 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 32:22 (Jacob crossed the ford of the Jabbok); Judges 3:28 (they seized the fords of the Jordan); Judges 12:5; Judges 12:6 (the Shibboleth test at the fords).

See also

G1224

G1226

διαβεβαιόομαι (diabebaióomai)

(dee-ab-eb-ahee-o'-om-ahee | thee-ah-veh-veh-OH-oh-meh | thee-ah-vay-vay-OH-oh-may)

Definition

middle voice of a compound of G1223 and G950; to confirm thoroughly (by words), i.e., asseverate; affirm constantly.

  • to affirm strongly, assert confidently

See also

G950, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1226.1–G1226.4 below.

G1226.1

διάβημα (diabēma)

(thee-AH-vee-ma)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Neuter noun from διαβαίνω (G1224, to step across); a step, footstep — the Psalter's word for the ordered goings of a man: steps held fast in God's paths, steps established by the Lord.

  • step, footstep
  • one's goings

Septuagint usage

16 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 22:37 (you widened my steps under me); Psalms 17:5 (hold fast my steps in your paths); Psalms 37:23 (the steps of a man are directed by the Lord); Psalms 40:2 (he set my feet on a rock and established my steps).

See also

G1224

G1226.2

διαβιάζομαι (diabiazomai)

(dee-ah-vee-AH-zo-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to force one's way through (διά + βία, force). The morning after the refusal at Kadesh: told the LORD would not go with them, 'forcing through, they ascended to the top of the mountain — but the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, did not move from the midst of the camp.' Yesterday's commanded battle attempted today without God is presumption, and Hormah proves it (Numbers 14:41-45).

  • to force through
  • to press up presumptuously

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 14:44 (and forcing through, they ascended upon the top of the mountain — but the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, did not move from out of the midst of the camp).

G1226.3

διαβιβάζω (diabibazō)

(dhee-ah-vee-VAH-zoh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb, causative of διαβαίνω (G1224, to cross over); to cause to pass over, bring across. The crossing-verb of the great fords: Jacob's household over the Jabbok before Peniel, Joshua's anguished question after Ai, and Judah at Gilgal bringing the king back over the Jordan.

  • to cause to cross over
  • to bring, ferry across

Septuagint usage

7 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 32:23 (he took them and caused them to pass over the brook — Jacob alone remained, and wrestled); Numbers 32:5 (do not cause us to pass over the Jordan — Reuben and Gad's request); Joshua 7:7 (why did You cause this people to pass over the Jordan — Joshua on his face after Ai); 2 Samuel 19:15 (Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king, to cause the king to pass over the Jordan).

See also

G1224

G1226.4

διαβιόω (diabioō)

(dee-ah-vee-O-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to live through, survive (διά + βίος, life). From the hard casuistry of the slave-laws: the master who strikes and kills is punished (Exodus 21:20); 'but if the one should survive a day or two, he shall not be punished — for he is his money.' The clause records, without endorsing as ideal, an economy the law is already constraining — servitude bounded by liability, on the way to a redemption that makes brothers of slaves (Philemon 1:16).

  • to survive
  • to live through

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 21:21 (but if the one should continue to live one day or two, he shall not be punished — for he is his money).

G1227

διαβλέπω (diablépō)

(dee-ab-lep'-o | thee-ah-VLEH-poh | thee-ah-VLAY-poh)

Definition

from G1223 and G991; to look through, i.e., recover full vision; see clearly.

  • to look through, penetrate by vision
    • to look fixedly, stare straight before one
    • to see clearly

See also

G991, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1227.1–G1227.2 below.

G1227.1

διαβοάω (diaboaō)

(dee-ah-vo-AH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to cry abroad, proclaim throughout (διά, through + βοάω, to cry). The glad report sounding through Pharaoh's house — Joseph's brothers have come — and the Jubilee's great command: proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants, the release the Anointed One takes up at Nazareth (Luke 4:18-19).

  • to proclaim abroad
  • to cry throughout

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 45:16 (the report was proclaimed abroad into the house of Pharaoh — saying, "the brothers of Joseph have come"; and Pharaoh and his attendants rejoiced); Leviticus 25:10 (you shall sanctify the fiftieth year — and you shall proclaim abroad a release upon the land to all the ones dwelling in it; it shall be a year of release, a jubilee).

G1227.2

διαβολή (diabolē)

(dee-ah-vo-LEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a setting-against: opposition, slander (διά + βάλλω — the family of διάβολος). The LXX's rendering where the Hebrew says the Angel of the LORD came out "as an adversary" (satan) to Balaam — and the slander of the alien tongue from which the commandment keeps the son.

  • opposition
  • slander

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 22:32 ("behold, I came out for your opposition — for your way is not honorable before me"); Proverbs 6:24 (to keep you from a married woman — and from the slander of an alien tongue).

G1228

διάβολος (diábolos)

(dee-ab'-ol-os | thee-AH-voh-lose | thee-AH-voh-lose)

Definition

from G1225; a traducer; specially, Satan (compare H7854); false accuser, devil, slanderer.

  • prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely
    • a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer,
  • metaphorically applied to a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part of the devil or to side with him Satan the prince of the demons, the author of evil, persecuting good men, estranging mankind from God and enticing them to sin, afflicting them with diseases by means of demons who take possession of their bodies at his bidding

See also

G1225, H7854

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1228.1–G1228.3 below.

G1228.1

διαβουλεύομαι (diabouleuomai)

(dee-ah-voo-LEV-o-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to plot, deliberate against (διά + βουλεύω, to counsel). In Joseph's blessing: 'against whom, plotting, they reviled — and the masters of the bowmen pressed against him; but their bows were broken with might' — for his hands were strengthened 'from the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob: from there is the One strengthening Israel' (Genesis 49:23-24). The brothers' plots, Potiphar's wife, the forgotten prison — one archery metaphor for all of it, and one explanation for its failure.

  • to plot against
  • to deliberate evil

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 49:23 (against whom, plotting with deliberation, they reviled — and the masters of the bowmen pressed against him).

G1228.2

διαβούλιον (diaboulion)

(dee-ah-VOO-lee-on)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a deliberation, scheme of counsel (διά + βουλή, counsel). The self-destroying counsels of the wicked: fallen by their own deliberations in the psalm — and the sword whirling in Ephraim's cities because of their deliberations.

  • deliberation
  • scheme

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 5:10 (judge them, O God; let them fall from their deliberations — according to the multitude of their impieties cast them out, for they rebelled against You); Hosea 11:6 (the broadsword was infirm in his cities, and it ceased in his hands — and they shall eat from their own deliberations).

G1228.3

διαβούλιον (diaboulion)

(dee-ah-VOO-lee-on)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a deliberation, scheme, device. Hosea's diagnosis of bondage: "their deliberations do not permit them to return to their God" — plans so encircling that, as Hosea 7 adds, they are before My face.

  • deliberation, device
  • scheme

Septuagint usage

5 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalm 10:2 (the poor seized in the devices the wicked deliberate); Ezekiel 11:5 ("I know your deliberations" — the word to the city's counselors); Hosea 5:4 ("their deliberations do not permit them to return to their God"); Hosea 7:2 (their deliberations surround them — they are before My face).

G1229

διαγγέλλω (diangéllō)

(de-ang-gel'-lo | thee-ang-GEL-loh | thee-ang-GALE-loh)

Definition

from G1223 and the base of G32; to herald thoroughly; declare, preach, signify.

  • to carry a message through, announce everywhere, through places, through assemblies of men etc.
  • to publish abroad, declare

See also

G32, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1229.1 below.

G1229.1

διάγγελμα (diangelma)

(dee-AN-gel-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a transmitted order, provision-directive (from διαγγέλλω, to declare throughout). Solomon's supply-chain: the twelve officers 'provided thus for king Solomon, and every directive for the table of the king, each one in his month — they did not alter a word.' Administrative fidelity as a footnote to the golden age: the kingdom at peace runs on unaltered words (1 Kings 4:27).

  • directive
  • provision-order

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Kings 4:27 (and the ones placed in charge provided thus for king Solomon, and all the declarations for the table of the king, each one in charge of his month — they did not alter a word).

G1230

διαγίνομαι (diagínomai)

(dee-ag-in'-om-ahee | thee-ah-GEE-noh-meh | thee-ah-GEE-noh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G1096; to elapse meanwhile; X after, be past, be spent.

  • to be through, continue
  • to be between, intervene, used of time, to have intervened, elapsed, passed meanwhile

See also

G1096, G1223

G1231

διαγινώσκω (diaginṓskō)

(dee-ag-in-o'-sko | thee-ah-gee-NOH-skoh | thee-ah-gee-NOH-skoh)

Definition

from G1223 and G1097; to know thoroughly, i.e., ascertain exactly; (would) enquire, know the uttermost.

  • to distinguish, i.e., to know accurately, ascertain exactly
  • in a legal sense, to examine, determine, decide

See also

G1097, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1231.1 below.

G1231.1

διαγλύφω (diaglyphō)

(dhee-ah-GHLEE-fo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to carve, engrave through (διά, through + γλύφω, to carve). The engraver's word — for the onyx stones bearing the names of Israel's sons, and for the cherubim carved on the temple walls.

  • to carve
  • to engrave

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 28:11 ("with the work of a stone engraver you shall carve the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel" — the ephod's memorial stones); 2 Chronicles 4:5 (the brim of the great sea carved like the blossom of a lily); Ezekiel 41:19 (in the visionary temple, cherubim and palm trees carved on the whole house round about); Ezekiel 41:20 (from the floor to above the door the cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall).

G1232

διαγνωρίζω (diagnōrízō)

(dee-ag-no-rid'-zo | thee-ah-gnoh-REE-zoh | thee-ah-gnoh-REE-zoh)

Definition

from G1123 and G1107; to tell abroad; make known.

  • to publish abroad, make known thoroughly
  • to discriminate

See also

G1107, G1123

G1233

διάγνωσις (diágnōsis)

(dee-ag'-no-sis | thee-AH-gnoh-sees | thee-AH-gnoh-sees)

Definition

from G1231; (magisterial) examination ("diagnosis"); hearing.

  • to distinguish
  • in a legal sense, examination, opinion, decision

See also

G1231

G1234

διαγογγύζω (diagongýzō)

(dee-ag-ong-good'-zo | thee-ah-gohng-GOO-zoh | thee-ah-gohng-GYOO-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and G1111; to complain throughout a crowd; murmur.

  • to murmur
    • either of a whole crowd, or among one another
    • always used of many indignantly complaining

See also

G1111, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1234.1–G1234.2 below.

G1234.1

διαγραφή (diagraphē)

(dee-ah-grah-FEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a plan, delineation, diagram (διά + γράφω, to write). The climax of the temple vision's law: 'and the diagram of the house upon the top of the mountain — all its limits round about, holy of holies: this is the law of the house.' Not just the inner room but the whole summit rated most-holy — holiness expanding to the property line (Ezekiel 43:12), on its way to a city named 'The LORD is there' (Ezekiel 48:35).

  • plan
  • diagram

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 43:12 (and the diagram of the house upon the top of the mountain — all its limits round about are holy of holies; this is the law of the house).

G1234.2

διαγράφω (diagraphō)

(dhee-ah-GRAH-foh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (through, out) and γράφω (G1125, to write, draw); to mark out, portray, describe in writing, diagram. The survey-verb of Joshua's land-description, and Ezekiel's sign-work: Jerusalem portrayed on a brick for the siege-sign, and the temple's form described to Israel "that they may be ashamed of their iniquities."

  • to mark out, diagram, portray
  • to describe in writing, survey

Septuagint usage

8 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Joshua 18:4 (three men from each tribe sent to pass through and diagram the land); Ezekiel 4:1 (take a brick and portray on it a city — Jerusalem under siege); Ezekiel 8:10 (every form of creeping thing portrayed on the wall — the hidden idolatry); Ezekiel 43:11 (describe the house and its form to the house of Israel).

See also

G1125

G1235

διαγρηγορέω (diagrēgoréō)

(dee-ag-ray-gor-eh'-o | thee-ah-gray-goh-REH-oh | thee-ah-gray-goh-RAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G1127; to waken thoroughly; be awake.

  • to watch through
  • to remain awake
  • to be fully awake

See also

G1127, G1223

G1236

διάγω (diágō)

(dee-ag'-o | thee-AH-goh | thee-AH-goh)

Definition

from G1223 and G71; to pass time or life; lead life, living.

  • to lead through, lead across, send across
  • to pass, to live

See also

G71, G1223

G1237

διαδέχομαι (diadéchomai)

(dee-ad-ekh'-om-ahee | thee-ah-THEH-hoh-meh | thee-ah-THAY-hoh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G1209; to receive in turn, i.e., (figuratively) succeed to; come after.

  • to receive through another, anything left or bequeathed by him, to receive in succession, receive in turn, succeed to

See also

G1209, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1237.1 below.

G1237.1

διάδηλος (diadēlos)

(dee-AH-dee-los)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — clearly apparent, distinguishable (διά + δῆλος, evident). Pharaoh recounting his dream: the lean cows swallowed the fat, 'and it was not apparent that they entered into their bellies — and their appearance was as shameful as in the beginning.' Consumption without gain: the detail that makes the famine legible to Joseph — seven years eaten up and nothing to show (Genesis 41:21, 30-31).

  • apparent
  • distinguishable

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 41:21 (and they entered into their bellies, and it did not become apparent that they entered into their bellies — and their appearance was shameful, as also in the beginning).

G1238

διάδημα (diádēma)

(dee-ad'-ay-mah | thee-AH-thay-ma | thee-AH-thay-ma)

Definition

from a compound of G1223 and G1210; a "diadem" (as bound about the head); crown.

  • a diadem
    • a blue band marked with white which Persian kings used to bind on the turban or tiara
    • the kingly ornament for the head, the crown

Note

Compare G4735.

See also

G1210, G1223, G4735

G1239

διαδίδωμι (diadídōmi)

(dee-ad-id'-o-mee | thee-ah-THEE-thoh-mee | thee-ah-THEE-thoh-mee)

Definition

from G1223 and G1325; to give throughout a crowd, i.e., deal out; also to deliver over (as to a successor); (make) distribute(-ion), divide, give.

  • to distribute, divide among several
  • to give over, deliver

See also

G1223, G1325

G1240

διάδοχος (diádochos)

(dee-ad'-okh-os | thee-AH-thoh-hose | thee-AH-thoh-hose)

Definition

from G1237; a successor in office; room.

  • succeeding, a successor

See also

G1237

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1240.1 below.

G1240.1

διαδύω (diadyō)

(dee-ah-DEE-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to sink through, penetrate. The five-word physics of the valley of Elah: 'David stretched out his hand into the bag and took from there one stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead — and the stone penetrated into his forehead, and he fell upon his face upon the ground.' One stone through the one uncovered spot on the armored blasphemer — 'the battle is the LORD's' demonstrated in ballistics (1 Samuel 17:45-49).

  • to penetrate
  • to sink through

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Samuel 17:49 (and David stretched out his hand into the canteen, and took from there one stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead — and the stone penetrated into his forehead, and he fell upon his face upon the ground).

G1241

διαζώννυμι (diazṓnnymi)

(dee-az-own'-noo-mee | thee-ah-ZONE-noo-mee | thee-ah-ZONE-nyoo-mee)

Definition

from G1223 and G2224; to gird tightly; gird.

  • to bind or gird all around
  • to gird one's self with a thing, gird a thing around one's self

See also

G1223, G2224

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1241.1–G1241.2 below.

G1241.1

διαθερμαίνω (diathermainō)

(dhee-ah-ther-MEH-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to warm through, grow thoroughly hot (διά, through + θερμαίνω, to warm). The sun's heat on the manna and on Israel's battles — and the returning warmth of the Shunammite's son under Elisha.

  • to warm through
  • to grow hot

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 16:21 (they gathered the manna morning by morning, and when the sun grew hot, it melted); 1 Samuel 11:9 (the promise to besieged Jabesh-gilead — "by the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you shall have deliverance"); 1 Samuel 11:11 (Saul strikes Ammon from the morning watch until the heat of the day); 2 Kings 4:34 (Elisha stretched himself on the dead child, and the child's flesh warmed through).

G1241.2

διάθεσις (diathesis)

(dee-AH-theh-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — disposition, settled inner state (from διατίθημι, to arrange). Asaph's X-ray of the prosperous wicked: 'their injustice comes forth as from fatness — they went by the disposition of heart.' Sin no longer episodic but constitutional: conduct flowing from an arranged interior — exactly the organ the covenant promises to re-arrange (Psalm 73:7; Ezekiel 36:26).

  • disposition
  • settled state of heart

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 73:7 (their injustice comes forth as from out of fatness — they went by the disposition of heart).

G1242

διαθήκη (diathḗkē)

(dee-ath-ay'-kay | thee-ah-THAY-kay | thee-ah-THAY-kay)

Definition

from G1303; properly, a disposition, i.e., (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will); covenant, testament.

  • a disposition, arrangement, of any sort, which one wishes to be valid, the last disposition which one makes of his earthly possessions after his death, a testament or will
  • a compact, a covenant, a testament
    • God's covenant with Noah, etc.

See also

G1303

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1242.1 below.

G1242.1

διαθρύπτω (diathryptō)

(dhee-ah-THREEP-to)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to break in pieces, crumble (διά, apart + θρύπτω, to crush). The breaking of the grain offering, the breaking of bread to the hungry, and the shattering of rocks and mountains before the LORD.

  • to break in pieces
  • to crumble, shatter

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 2:6 ("you shall break the grain offering in pieces and pour oil on it; it is an offering"); Isaiah 58:7 (the fast God chooses — "break your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house"); Nahum 1:6 (who can stand before His indignation? — the rocks are broken apart by Him); Habakkuk 3:6 (in the prophet's theophany the eternal mountains were shattered and the everlasting hills bowed low).

G1243

διαίρεσις (diaíresis)

(dee-ah'-ee-res-is | thee-EH-reh-sees | thee-A-ray-sees)

Definition

from G1244; a distinction or (concretely) variety; difference, diversity.

  • division, distribution
  • distinction, difference
    • in particular, a distinction arising from a different distribution to different persons

See also

G1244

G1244

διαιρέω (diairéō)

(dee-ahee-reh'-o | thee-eh-REH-oh | thee-ay-RAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G138; to separate, i.e., distribute; divide.

  • to divide into parts, to part, to tear, cleave or cut asunder
  • to distribute

See also

G138, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1244.1–G1244.2 below.

G1244.1

δίαιτα (diaita)

(THEE-eh-ta)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Feminine noun; a dwelling, habitation, manner of life — in the LXX the vocabulary of Job for a man's abode: the tent of the righteous made whole, the habitation of the wicked blotted out.

  • dwelling, habitation
  • way of life

Septuagint usage

10 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 8:6 (he will restore your righteous habitation); Job 8:22 (the dwelling of the wicked shall not stand); Job 11:14; Job 18:14.

G1244.2

διαιτάομαι (diaitaomai)

(dee-eh-TAH-o-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to make one's abode, pass one's life. Job's portrait of his mockers' fathers: outcasts 'who passed their life under wild brush,' braying among the shrubs — men once beneath his flock-dogs' notice (Job 30:1, 7). The reversal is the point: the man who sat as chief (Job 29:25) now sung in taunt-songs by the sons of the driven-out — the innocent sufferer scorned by the scorned, a path his greater Successor walked lower still (Matthew 27:39-44).

  • to make one's abode
  • to pass one's life

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 30:7 (in the midst of the thickets they shall yell — the ones who passed their life under wild sticks of dwellings).

G1245

διακαθαρίζω (diakatharízō)

(dee-ak-ath-ar-id'-zo | thee-ah-ka-tha-REE-zoh | thee-ah-ka-tha-REE-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and G2511; to cleanse perfectly, i.e., (specially) winnow; thoroughly purge.

  • to cleanse thoroughly

See also

G1223, G2511

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1245.1–G1245.2 below.

G1245.1

διακαθιζάνω (diakathizanō)

(dee-ah-kah-thee-ZAH-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to sit apart, withdraw to relieve oneself. The camp-sanitation statute: a trowel on the belt, 'whenever you should sit apart outside, you shall dig with it... and cover your indecency.' The rationale is the astonishment: 'for the LORD your God walks about in the midst of your camp' (Deuteronomy 23:12-14) — holiness with jurisdiction over latrines: no zone of life is beneath the God who is present in it.

  • to sit apart
  • to withdraw outside

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 23:13 (and a trowel will be for you upon your belt; and it will be, whenever you should sit separately outside, that you shall dig with it — and bringing it back, you shall cover your indecency with it).

G1245.2

διακάμπτω (diakamptō)

(dee-ah-KAMP-to)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to bend over, arch across (διά + κάμπτω, to bend). Elisha over the Shunammite's dead son: 'he put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands — and he bent over him, and the flesh of the boy warmed.' Resurrection by contact: the prophet folding his living frame over the dead one, measure for measure, until the seven sneezes (2 Kings 4:34-35) — prophetic ministry at its most incarnational reach.

  • to bend over
  • to stretch upon

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Kings 4:34 (and he went up and lay upon the boy, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands — and he bent over upon him, and the flesh of the boy warmed).

G1246

διακατελέγχομαι (diakatelénchomai)

(dee-ak-at-el-eng'-khom-ahee | thee-ah-ka-teh-LENG-hoh-meh | thee-ah-ka-tay-LAYNG-hoh-may)

Definition

middle voice from G1223 and a compound of G2596 and G1651; to prove downright, i.e., confute; convince.

  • to confute with rivalry and effort or in a contest

See also

G1223, G1651, G2596

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1246.1–G1246.5 below.

G1246.1

διακενῆς (diakenēs)

(dhee-ah-keh-NEES)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adverb from διά and κενός (G2756, empty); in vain, for nothing, without cause. The covenant-curse of seed sown in vain — and the accuser's word turned back in Job: "you moved Me against him, to destroy him without cause."

  • in vain, to no purpose
  • without cause

Septuagint usage

8 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 26:16 (you shall sow your seed in vain, and your enemies shall eat it — the covenant curses); Job 2:3 (he still holds fast his integrity, though you moved Me against him to destroy him without cause); Job 9:17 (he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause); Psalm 25:3 (let those acting lawlessly in vain be ashamed).

See also

G2756

G1246.2

διάκενος (diakenos)

(dee-AH-keh-nos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — quite empty, insubstantial (διά + κενός, empty). The complaint that summoned the serpents: 'there is no bread nor water — and our soul loathes this empty bread.' The bread was manna; the emptiness was in the appetite (Numbers 21:5). The seraph-bitten camp is then healed by looking at a bronze serpent lifted on a standard (Numbers 21:8-9) — the very sign Jesus claims for His cross (John 3:14-15).

  • empty
  • insubstantial

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 21:5 (and the people spoke ill against God and against Moses: Why did you lead us out of Egypt to kill us in the wilderness? For there is no bread nor water — and our soul loathes this empty bread).

G1246.3

διακλάω (diaklaō)

(dee-ah-KLAH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to break in pieces (διά + κλάω, to break — the bread-breaking verb of the Gospels). The daleth-line of the famine acrostic: 'the tongue of the nursing child cleaves to its throat in thirst; infants ask for bread — there is no one breaking it for them.' The office of bread-breaker stands vacant in the ruined city (Lamentations 4:4) — the vacancy that makes the sight of the Lord taking, blessing, and breaking loaves for the crowds read like an answer (Mark 6:41).

  • to break (bread) in pieces

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Lamentations 4:4 (the tongue of the one nursing cleaves to its throat in thirst; infants ask for bread — there is no one breaking it for them).

G1246.4

διακλέπτω (diakleptō)

(dee-ah-KLEP-to)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to steal away through, slip off covertly (διά, through + κλέπτω, to steal). The verb of the victory turned mourning: the day David wept for Absalom, the people stole away into the city as the ashamed steal away from battle.

  • to steal away
  • to slip off covertly

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 19:3 (twice — the people stole away that day to enter into the city — as people steal away who are ashamed when they flee in the battle).

G1246.5

διακομίζω (diakomizō)

(dee-ah-ko-MEE-zo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to carry across, convey through (διά, across + κομίζω, to carry). The memorial verb of the Jordan crossing — twelve stones lifted from the riverbed where the priests' feet stood, carried across, and laid down in the lodging place.

  • to carry across
  • to convey through

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Joshua 4:3 ("take up from the midst of the Jordan twelve ready stones — and carrying them across with yourselves, place them in your camp, where you should pitch camp for the night"); Joshua 4:8 (taking up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan — as the LORD gave charge to Joshua at the completion of the crossing of the sons of Israel — they carried them across with themselves into the camp, and put them there).

G1247

διακονέω (diakonéō)

(dee-ak-on-eh'-o | thee-ah-koh-NEH-oh | thee-ah-koh-NAY-oh)

Definition

from G1249; to be an attendant, i.e., wait upon (menially or as a host, friend, or (figuratively) teacher); technically, to act as a Christian deacon; (ad-)minister (unto), serve, use the office of a deacon.

  • to be a servant, attendant, domestic, to serve, wait upon
    • to minister to one, render ministering offices to
      • to be served, ministered unto
    • to wait at a table and offer food and drink to the guests,
      • of women preparing food
    • to minister i.e., supply food and necessities of life
      • to relieve one's necessities (e.g., by collecting alms), to provide take care of, distribute, the things necessary to sustain life
      • to take care of the poor and the sick, who administer the office of a deacon
      • in Christian churches to serve as deacons
    • to minister
      • to attend to anything, that may serve another's interests
      • to minister a thing to one, to serve one or by supplying any thing

See also

G1249

G1248

διακονία (diakonía)

(dee-ak-on-ee'-ah | thee-ah-koh-NEE-ah | thee-ah-koh-NEE-ah)

Definition

from G1249; attendance (as a servant, etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid, (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher, or technically of the diaconate); (ad-)minister(-ing, -tration, -try), office, relief, service(-ing).

  • service, ministering, especially of those who execute the commands of others
  • of those who by the command of God proclaim and promote religion among men
    • of the office of Moses
    • of the office of the apostles and its administration
    • of the office of prophets, evangelists, elders etc.
  • the ministration of those who render to others the offices of Christian affection especially those who help meet need by either collecting or distributing of charities
  • the office of the deacon in the church
  • the service of those who prepare and present food

See also

G1249

G1249

διάκονος (diákonos)

(dee-ak'-on-os | thee-AH-koh-nose | thee-AH-koh-nose)

Definition

probably from an obsolete διάκω (to run on errands; compare G1377); an attendant, i.e., (genitive case) a waiter (at table or in other menial duties); specially, a Christian teacher and pastor (technically, a deacon); deacon, minister, servant.

  • one who executes the commands of another, especially of a master, a servant, attendant, minister
    • the servant of a king
    • a deacon, one who, by virtue of the office assigned to him by the church, cares for the affairs of the church
    • a waiter, one who serves food and drink

See also

G1377

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1249.1–G1249.2 below.

G1249.1

διακοπή (diakopē)

(thee-a-ko-PEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Feminine noun from διακόπτω (see G1249.2 below); a breach, breaking-through — the name-making word of Baal-perazim (master of breaches, where the Lord broke through David's enemies) and of Perez-uzzah (the breach against Uzzah).

  • breach, breaking-through

Septuagint usage

14 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 5:20 (the Lord broke through my enemies like a breach of waters); 2 Samuel 6:8 (the breach against Uzzah); 1 Chronicles 13:11; Nehemiah 6:1 (no breach left in the wall).

G1249.2

διακόπτω (diakoptō)

(thee-a-KOP-toh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (through) and κόπτω (G2875, to cut); to cut through, break through — Perez's breaking-out at his birth, and the Lord's breaking-through of the Philistines before David.

  • to break through, cut through

Septuagint usage

14 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 38:29 (how did you break through? — so his name was called Perez); 2 Samuel 5:20; 2 Kings 3:26 (to break through to the king of Edom); 1 Chronicles 14:11.

See also

G2875

G1250

διακόσιοι (diakósioi)

(dee-ak-os'-ee-oy | thee-ah-KOH-see-oo | thee-ah-KOH-see-oo)

Definition

from G1364 and G1540; two hundred; two hundred.

  • two hundred

See also

G1364, G1540

G1251

διακούομαι (diakoúomai)

(dee-ak-oo'-om-ahee | thee-ah-KOO-oh-meh | thee-ah-KOO-oh-may)

Definition

middle voice from G1223 and G191; to hear throughout, i.e., patiently listen (to a prisoner's plea); hear.

  • to hear one through, hear to the end, hear with care, hear fully

See also

G191, G1223

G1252

διακρίνω (diakrínō)

(dee-ak-ree'-no | thee-ah-KREE-noh | thee-ah-KREE-noh)

Definition

from G1223 and G2919; to separate thoroughly, i.e., (literally and reflexively) to withdraw from, or (by implication) oppose; figuratively, to discriminate (by implication, decide), or (reflexively) hesitate; contend, make (to) differ(-ence), discern, doubt, judge, be partial, stagger, waver.

  • to separate, make a distinction, discriminate, to prefer
  • to learn by discrimination, to try, decide
    • to determine, give judgment, decide a dispute
  • to withdraw from one, desert
  • to separate one's self in a hostile spirit, to oppose, strive with dispute, contend
  • to be at variance with one's self, hesitate, doubt

See also

G1223, G2919

G1253

διάκρισις (diákrisis)

(dee-ak'-ree-sis | thee-AH-kree-sees | thee-AH-kree-sees)

Definition

from G1252; judicial estimation; discern(-ing), disputation.

  • a distinguishing, discerning, judging

See also

G1252

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1253.1 below.

G1253.1

διακύπτω (diakyptō)

(thee-a-KEEP-toh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (through) and κύπτω (G2955, to stoop); to lean through and look, peer out (through a window or lattice) — Sisera's mother at the lattice, Michal at the window, and the Lord himself looking down from heaven upon the sons of men.

  • to peer through, look out (a window)
  • to look down upon

Septuagint usage

11 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Judges 5:28 (the mother of Sisera peered through the lattice); 2 Samuel 6:16 (Michal looked through the window and despised David); 2 Kings 9:30 (Jezebel looked out the window); Psalms 14:2 (the Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men).

See also

G2955

G1254

διακωλύω (diakōlýō)

(dee-ak-o-loo'-o | thee-ah-koh-LOO-oh | thee-ah-koh-LYOO-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G2967; to hinder altogether, i.e., utterly prohibit; forbid.

  • to hinder, prevent

See also

G1223, G2967

G1255

διαλαλέω (dialaléō)

(dee-al-al-eh'-o | thee-ah-la-LEH-oh | thee-ah-la-LAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G2980; to talk throughout a company, i.e., converse or (genitive case) publish; commune, noise abroad.

  • to converse together, to talk with

See also

G1223, G2980

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1255.1 below.

G1255.1

διαλανθάνω (dialanthanō)

(dee-ah-lan-THAH-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to escape notice completely (διά + λανθάνω, to be hidden). The assassins' entrance: 'behold, the doorkeeper of the house was cleaning wheat, and she slumbered and slept — and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped notice.' They murdered Ish-bosheth on his bed and carried the head to David expecting reward; they had escaped a doorkeeper's notice, not the king's justice, and not God's (2 Samuel 4:5-12).

  • to escape notice
  • to slip past

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 4:6 (and behold, the doorkeeper of the house was cleansing wheat, and she slumbered and slept — and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped notice).

G1256

διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)

(dee-al-eg'-om-ahee | thee-ah-LEH-goh-meh | thee-ah-LAY-goh-may)

Definition

middle voice from G1223 and G3004; to say thoroughly, i.e., discuss (in argument or exhortation); dispute, preach (unto), reason (with), speak.

  • to think different things with one's self, mingle thought with thought
    • to ponder, revolve in mind
  • to converse, discourse with one, argue, discuss

See also

G1223, G3004

G1257

διαλείπω (dialeípō)

(dee-al-i'-po | thee-ah-LEE-poh | thee-ah-LEE-poh)

Definition

from G1223 and G3007; to leave off in the middle, i.e., intermit; cease.

  • to interpose a delay, to intermit, leave off for a time something already begun

See also

G1223, G3007

G1258

διάλεκτος (diálektos)

(dee-al'-ek-tos | thee-AH-lek-tose | thee-AH-lake-tose)

Definition

from G1256; a (mode of) discourse, i.e., "dialect"; language, tongue.

  • conversation, speech, discourse, language
  • the tongue or language peculiar to any people

See also

G1256

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1258.1 below.

G1258.1

διάλευκος (dialeukos)

(dhee-AH-lef-kos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective from διά (throughout, intermixed) and λευκός (G3022, white); white-mixed, streaked with white. The word of Jacob's wages in Laban's flocks — the streaked and speckled that God, not Laban's bargaining, multiplied, as the angel showed Jacob in the dream.

  • white-mixed, streaked
  • marked with white (of flocks)

Septuagint usage

8 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 30:32 (removing every white-mixed and speckled sheep — Jacob's wage set); Genesis 30:35 (Laban removes the streaked he-goats that very day); Genesis 31:10 (the he-goats mounting the flock — white-mixed and speckled — seen in the dream); Genesis 31:12 ("lift up your eyes and see... for I have seen all that Laban does to you").

See also

G3022

G1259

διαλλάσσω (diallássō)

(dee-al-las'-so | thee-al-LAHS-soh | thee-al-LAHS-soh)

Definition

from G1223 and G236; to change thoroughly, i.e., (mentally) to conciliate; reconcile.

  • to change
  • to change the mind of anyone, to reconcile
  • to be reconciled, to renew friendship with one

See also

G236, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1259.1–G1259.2 below.

G1259.1

διάλλομαι (diallomai)

(dee-AL-lo-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to leap across, bound over (διά + ἅλλομαι, to leap). The Beloved's approach: 'the voice of my beloved! behold, he comes — springing upon the mountains, leaping over the hills.' Distance treated as a footpath: the Bridegroom's eagerness outrunning every obstacle between him and the one he calls to rise and come away (Song of Solomon 2:8-10).

  • to leap over
  • to bound across

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Song of Solomon 2:8 (the voice of my beloved man — behold, he comes springing up over the mountains, leaping over the hills).

See also

G4079.1

G1259.2

διαλογή (dialogē)

(dee-ah-lo-GHEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — meditation, discourse (from διαλέγομαι, to discourse). The creation psalm's closing exchange: 'may my meditation be sweet to Him — and I shall be glad in the LORD.' The psalmist hopes his thinking pleases God while his gladness rests in God: delight offered and delight received in one couplet (Psalm 104:33-34) — the sight-unto-savoring economy in miniature.

  • meditation
  • discourse

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 104:34 (may my versification be delicious to Him — and I shall be glad in the LORD).

G1260

διαλογίζομαι (dialogízomai)

(dee-al-og-id'-zom-ahee | thee-ah-loh-GEE-zoh-meh | thee-ah-loh-GEE-zoh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G3049; to reckon thoroughly, i.e., (genitive case) to deliberate (by reflection or discussion); cast in mind, consider, dispute, muse, reason, think.

  • to bring together different reasons, to reckon up the reasons, to reason, revolve in one's mind, deliberate

See also

G1223, G3049

G1261

διαλογισμός (dialogismós)

(dee-al-og-is-mos' | thee-ah-loh-gee-SMOSE | thee-ah-loh-gee-SMOSE)

Definition

from G1260; discussion, i.e., (internal) consideration (by implication, purpose), or (external) debate; dispute, doubtful(-ing), imagination, reasoning, thought.

  • the thinking of a man deliberating with himself
    • a thought, inward reasoning
    • purpose, design
  • a deliberating, questioning about what is true
    • hesitation, doubting
    • disputing, arguing

See also

G1260

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1261.1 below.

G1261.1

διάλυσις (dialysis)

(dee-AH-lee-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a dissolving, utter breach (from διαλύω, to dissolve; here the doubled Hebrew idiom, 'with breaking we broke'). Nehemiah's confession before his request: 'in parting we parted from You, and we did not guard the commandments and the orders and the judgments which You gave charge to Moses Your servant.' The wall-builder's first construction is an honest demolition report (Nehemiah 1:6-7).

  • breach
  • utter breaking

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Nehemiah 1:7 (in parting we parted from You — and we guarded not the commandments, and the orders, and the judgments which You gave charge to Moses Your servant).

G1262

διαλύω (dialýō)

(dee-al-oo'-o | thee-ah-LOO-oh | thee-ah-LYOO-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G3089; to dissolve utterly; scatter.

  • to dissolve

See also

G1223, G3089

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1262.1–G1262.2 below.

G1262.1

διαμαρτάνω (diamartanō)

(dee-ah-mahr-TAH-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to miss entirely, to err throughout (διά, thoroughly + ἁμαρτάνω, to miss the mark). The law's provision for the congregation that misses entirely without willing it — and, in its literal register, the seven hundred slingers who missed nothing at all.

  • to miss entirely
  • to err unwittingly

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 15:22 ("but whenever you should miss entirely, and not do all these commandments which the LORD spoke to Moses"); Judges 20:16 (seven hundred chosen men, ambidextrous — all these slinging stones at a hair and not missing).

See also

G296.1

G1262.2

διαμαρτυρία (diamartyria)

(dee-ah-mar-tee-REE-ah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a solemn protest, earnest testimony (from διαμαρτύρομαι, to solemnly charge — Paul's charge-verb, 2 Timothy 4:1). Judah reporting Joseph's terms: 'with solemn testimony the man bore witness to us: you shall not see my face unless your younger brother is with you.' The unrecognized brother's oath drives the whole reconciliation plot — no face without Benjamin, no forgiveness scene without the test (Genesis 43:3-5; 44:18-34).

  • solemn testimony
  • earnest protest

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 43:3 (and Judah said to him: the man, the master of the land, bore witness to us by testifying, saying, You shall not see my face if your younger brother does not come with you).

G1263

διαμαρτύρομαι (diamartýromai)

(dee-am-ar-too'-rom-ahee | thee-ah-mahr-TOO-roh-meh | thee-ah-mahr-TYOO-roh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G3140; to attest or protest earnestly, or (by implication) hortatively; charge, testify (unto), witness.

  • to testify
    • earnestly, religiously to charge
  • to attest, testify to, solemnly affirm
    • to give solemn testimony to one
    • to confirm a thing by testimony, to testify, cause it to be believed

See also

G1223, G3140

G1264

διαμάχομαι (diamáchomai)

(dee-am-akh'-om-ahee | thee-ah-MA-hoh-meh | thee-ah-MA-hoh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G3164; to fight fiercely (in altercation); strive.

  • to fight out
  • contend fiercely

See also

G1223, G3164

G1265

διαμένω (diaménō)

(dee-am-en'-o | thee-ah-MEH-noh | thee-ah-MAY-noh)

Definition

from G1223 and G3306; to stay constantly (in being or relation); continue, remain.

  • to stay permanently, remain permanently, continue

See also

G1223, G3306

G1266

διαμερίζω (diamerízō)

(dee-am-er-id'-zo | thee-ah-meh-REE-zoh | thee-ah-may-REE-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and G3307; to partition thoroughly (literally in distribution, figuratively in dissension); cloven, divide, part.

  • to cleave asunder, cut in pieces
  • to be divided into opposing parts, to be at variance, in dissension
  • to distribute

See also

G1223, G3307

G1267

διαμερισμός (diamerismós)

(dee-am-er-is-mos' | thee-ah-meh-ree-SMOSE | thee-ah-may-ree-SMOSE)

Definition

from G1266; disunion (of opinion and conduct); division.

  • a parting, distribution
  • disunion, dissension

See also

G1266

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1267.1–G1267.3 below.

G1267.1

διαμετρέω (diametreō)

(thee-a-me-TREH-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (through) and μετρέω (G3354, to measure); to measure out, measure through — David measuring Moab with the cord (2 Samuel 8:2), and above all the angelic surveyor's verb throughout the measuring of Ezekiel's temple.

  • to measure out (land, spoil, a boundary)
  • to survey by measure (Ezekiel's temple vision)

Septuagint usage

36 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 8:2 (David measured Moab with measuring cords); Psalm 60:6 ("I will measure out the valley of Succoth"); Ezekiel 40:5-6 (the man with the measuring reed); Ezekiel 40:19; Ezekiel 42:15-20 (the whole compass measured).

See also

G3354, G3358

G1267.2

διαμέτρησις (diametrēsis)

(dee-ah-MEH-tree-sees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun from διαμετρέω (to measure through) — a full measurement. It spans the first temple's dimensions, Ezekiel's visionary survey, and Jeremiah 31's hope: the measuring line stretched over defiled hills — "holy to the LORD... not plucked up any more, forever."

  • measurement

Septuagint usage

5 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Chronicles 3:3 (the measurement Solomon fixed for building the house of God); 2 Chronicles 4:2 (the cast sea measured round about); Jeremiah 31:39 (the measuring line goes out over the hills — the city holy to the LORD); Ezekiel 45:3 (from the measurement, the holy portion with the sanctuary in it).

G1267.3

διαναπαύω (dianapauō)

(dee-ah-nah-PAV-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to give thorough rest (διά + ἀναπαύω, to rest — the verb of 'I will give you rest,' Matthew 11:28). Lamech's hope over his newborn: 'he named his name Noah, saying, This one will rest us from our works and from the distresses of our hands, and from the earth which the LORD God cursed.' A father naming his son after the ache of Genesis 3:17-19 — a rest Noah's ark and vineyard could only sketch, and a greater Rest-giver fills (Genesis 5:29; Matthew 11:28-29).

  • to give rest
  • to relieve

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 5:29 (and he named his name Noah, saying, This one will rest us from our works, and from the distresses of our hands — and from the earth which the LORD God cursed).

G1268

διανέμω (dianémō)

(dee-an-em'-o | thee-ah-NEH-moh | thee-ah-NAY-moh)

Definition

from G1223 and the base of G3551; to distribute, i.e., (of information) to disseminate; spread.

  • to distribute, divide

See also

G1223, G3551

G1269

διανεύω (dianeúō)

(dee-an-yoo'-o | thee-ah-NEV-oh | thee-ah-NAVE-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G3506; to nod (or express by signs) across an intervening space; beckon.

  • to express one's meaning by a sign, nod to, beckon to, wink at

See also

G1223, G3506

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1269.1–G1269.4 below.

G1269.1

διανήθω (dianēthō)

(dee-ah-NEE-thoh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to spin throughout (νήθω, G3514, to spin — "they neither toil nor spin"). Only the perfect participle appears in the LXX: the "spun scarlet" of the priestly garments and tabernacle fabrics, sanctuary beauty wrought thread by thread by willing-hearted skill.

  • to spin
  • (perfect participle) spun

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 28:8 (the ephod's woven band — gold, blue, purple, spun scarlet, twined linen); Exodus 28:33 (pomegranates of blue, purple, and spun scarlet on the robe's hem); Exodus 35:6 (the freewill-offering materials for the tabernacle); Exodus 39:3 (gold leaf cut into threads to weave with the spun scarlet).

See also

G3514

G1269.2

διανθίζω (dianthizō)

(dee-an-THID-zo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to deck with flowers, embroider variously (διά + ἄνθος, flower). From the throne-room inventory of the 180-day glory display: linens on silver rings, gold and silver couches on emerald and marble pavement, 'and strewn coverlets, transparent, variously flowered.' Esther's book opens by exhausting the vocabulary of luxury (Esther 1:4-6) — an empire's weight of splendor that one Jewish orphan's courage will outmaneuver.

  • to embroider with flowers
  • to deck variously

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Esther 1:6 (adorned in fine linen and cotton stretched upon lines of fine linen and purple, upon gold and silver studs, upon columns of Parian marble — beds of gold and silver upon a stone pavement of emerald and mother-of-pearl and Parian stone, and strewn transparent beds variously decorated).

G1269.3

διανίσταμαι (dianistamai)

(dee-ah-NEES-tah-meh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to rise up (from bed) (διά + ἀνίστημι). The rising-up of the Shema's rhythm: the words taught to sons while sitting, walking, lying down, and rising up — the whole day bracketed by the commandments.

  • to rise up
  • to arise from bed

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 6:7 (you shall instruct your sons in them — speaking in them, sitting in the house, and going in the way, and lying in bed, and rising up); Deuteronomy 11:19 (and you shall teach your children these things — to speak them, sitting in the house, and going in the way, and lying in bed, and rising up).

G1269.4

διανοέομαι (dianoeomai)

(thee-a-no-EH-o-meh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb, middle; to consider, ponder, purpose in the mind — the verb of Genesis 6–8 for the deliberations of both man and God: every man ponders evil continually, and God considers concerning the flood and afterward purposes never again to curse the ground.

  • to consider, ponder
  • to purpose in the mind

Septuagint usage

13 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 6:5 (every one ponders evil in his heart all his days); Genesis 6:6 (God considered that he made man); Genesis 8:21 (God considered — I will not again curse the ground); 2 Chronicles 2:14.

G1270

διανόημα (dianóēma)

(dee-an-o'-ay-mah | thee-ah-NOH-ay-ma | thee-ah-NOH-ay-ma)

Definition

from a compound of G1223 and G3539; something thought through, i.e., a sentiment; thought.

  • a thought

See also

G1223, G3539

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1270.1 below.

G1270.1

διανόησις (dianoēsis)

(dee-ah-NO-ee-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a devising, thought-out design (from διανόημα, thought). Huram-abi's résumé: son of a Danite mother and a Tyrian father, skilled in gold, silver, brass, iron, stone, wood, purple, blue, linen, scarlet, engraving — 'and to consider every device given to him.' The Chronicler writes him as a second Oholiab (the first tabernacle's Danite, Exodus 31:6) — two houses of God, each with a designer from Dan devising its designs (2 Chronicles 2:13-14).

  • devising
  • design

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Chronicles 2:14 (a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, his father a Tyrian man — knowing how to work in gold and silver and brass and iron and stones and woods, and to weave in purple and blue and linen and scarlet, and to carve carvings, and to consider every device that you should give to him, with your wise men and the wise men of my master David your father).

G1271

διάνοια (diánoia)

(dee-an'-oy-ah | thee-AH-noo-ah | thee-AH-noo-ah)

Definition

from G1223 and G3563; deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication, its exercise; imagination, mind, understanding.

  • the mind as a faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring
  • understanding
  • mind, i.e., spirit, way of thinking and feeling
  • thoughts, either good or bad

See also

G1223, G3563

G1272

διανοίγω (dianoígō)

(dee-an-oy'-go | thee-ah-NOO-goh | thee-ah-NOO-goh)

Definition

from G1223 and G455; to open thoroughly, literally (as a first-born) or figuratively (to expound); open.

  • to open by dividing or drawing asunder, to open thoroughly (what had been closed)
    • a male opening the womb (the closed matrix), i.e., the first-born
    • of the eyes and the ears
    • to open the mind of one, i.e., to cause to understand a thing
      • to open one's soul, i.e., to rouse in one the faculty of understanding or the desire of learning

See also

G455, G1223

G1273

διανυκτερεύω (dianyktereúō)

(dee-an-ook-ter-yoo'-o | thee-ah-nook-teh-REV-oh | thee-ah-nyook-tay-RAVE-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and a derivative of G3571; to sit up the whole night; continue all night.

  • to spend the night, to pass the whole night

See also

G1223, G3571

G1274

διανύω (dianýō)

(dee-an-oo'-o | thee-ah-NOO-oh | thee-ah-NYOO-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and ἀνύω (to effect); to accomplish thoroughly; finish.

  • to accomplish fully, bring quite to an end, finish

See also

G1223

G1275

διαπαντός (diapantós)

(dee-ap-an-tos' | thee-ah-pahn-TOSE | thee-ah-pahn-TOSE)

Definition

from G1223 and the genitive case of G3956; through all time, i.e., (adverbially) constantly; alway(-s), continually.

  • constantly, always, continually

See also

G1223, G3956

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1275.1–G1275.4 below.

G1275.1

διαπαρθενεύω (diapartheneuō)

(dee-ah-pahr-then-EV-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to deflower, take virginity (διά + παρθένος, virgin). Ezekiel's blunt verb in the allegory of the two sisters — the harlotries begun in Egypt in their youth, never repented of.

  • to deflower
  • to take virginity

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 23:3 (they committed harlotry in Egypt in their youth — there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity); Ezekiel 23:8 (she did not abandon her harlotry from Egypt — for they lay with her in her youth, and they took her virginity, and poured out their harlotry upon her).

G1275.2

διαπαύω (diapauō)

(dee-ah-PAHV-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to cause to cease, discontinue (διά + παύω, to stop). Two never-ceasings set against each other: the salt of the covenant that must never be discontinued from the offerings — and the pain of Ephraim that Assyria's king could in no way make cease.

  • to discontinue
  • to cause to cease

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 2:13 (every gift of your sacrifice shall be salted with salt — you shall not discontinue the salt of the covenant of the LORD from your sacrifices; upon every gift you shall offer salt); Hosea 5:13 (Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Jareb — but he was not able to heal you, and the pain shall by no means cease from you).

G1275.3

διαπειλέω (diapeileō)

(dee-ah-pee-LEH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to threaten severely, warn with full menace (διά + ἀπειλέω, to threaten). The watchman charge: 'son of man, I have appointed you watchman to the house of Israel — you shall hear the word from My mouth, and you shall warn them from Me.' The warning must carry the danger's real weight; softened alarms cost blood, and the blood is required of the silent watchman (Ezekiel 3:17-18; 33:6-8).

  • to warn sternly
  • to threaten

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 3:17 (O son of man, I have appointed you watchman to the house of Israel — and you shall hear the word from out of My mouth, and you shall threaten them from Me).

G1275.4

διαπέμπω (diapempō)

(dee-ah-PEM-po)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to send about, disseminate (διά + πέμπω, to send). Proverbs' anatomy of the divider: 'a crooked man spreads evils about, and with a torch of treachery lights a fire on evils — and he parts friends.' Gossip as logistics: harm with a distribution network, arson with a courier (Proverbs 16:27-28); the LORD's hate-list gives such a man its climactic seventh place (Proverbs 6:19).

  • to spread about
  • to disseminate

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Proverbs 16:28 (a crooked man spreads evils, and with the torch of treachery lights a fire for evils — and he parts friends).

G1276

διαπεράω (diaperáō)

(dee-ap-er-ah'-o | thee-ah-peh-RA-oh | thee-ah-pay-RA-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and a derivative of the base of G4008; to cross entirely; go over, pass (over), sail over.

  • to pass over, cross over, i.e., a river, a lake

See also

G1223, G4008

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1276.1–G1276.4 below.

G1276.1

διαπετάζω (diapetazō)

(thee-a-pe-TAH-zoh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (throughout) and πετάννυμι (to spread); to spread wide, stretch out, open out (also inflected from the classical διαπετάννυμι) — the wings of the cherubim spread over the ark, and Solomon's hands spread toward heaven in the temple prayer.

  • to spread out, stretch wide (wings, hands, a covering)
  • of carved work "spread open" (the temple panels)

Septuagint usage

24 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Kings 6:27 (the cherubim's wings spread out in the inner house); 1 Kings 8:7; 1 Kings 8:22 (Solomon spread out his hands toward heaven); 2 Samuel 17:19; Ezekiel 16:8 ("I spread My garment over you" — the covenant at Jerusalem's espousal).

See also

G1600

G1276.2

διάπηγον (diapēgon)

(dee-AH-pee-gon)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a cross-stay, small pillar (διά, through + πήγνυμι, to fix). The bracing-work of Solomon's bronze bases for the lavers — the small pillars fixed through the frames, crowned and rounded for their basins.

  • cross-stay
  • small pillar

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Kings 7:31 (the work of their small pillars — round about, a mouth within a crown); 1 Kings 7:32 (the work of the small pillars — and the hands of the axles beneath the bases).

G1276.3

διαπίπτω (diapiptō)

(thee-a-PEEP-toh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (through) and πίπτω (G4098, to fall); to fall through, fail, come to nothing, waste away — the sotah's curse of miscarrying flesh, the wilderness generation perishing, and the great negation of Joshua: not one word of all the Lord's good words fell through.

  • to fall through, fail
  • to waste away, perish

Septuagint usage

13 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 5:22 (the curse-water making the thigh fall away); Deuteronomy 2:14 (until the generation of the men of war had wasted away); Joshua 21:45 (not one word of all the Lord's good words fell through); Job 14:18.

See also

G4098

G1276.4

διαπλατύνω (diaplatynō)

(dee-ah-plah-TEE-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to widen out, broaden progressively (διά + πλατύνω, to widen). In the measured temple: the side-chambers 'widened out above,' story by story, the ascent winding from the lowest through the middle to the third (Ezekiel 41:7). A house that grows roomier the higher one goes — architecture as quiet doctrine in a vision where every dimension preaches.

  • to widen upward
  • to broaden out

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 41:7 (and the breadth of the higher of the sides was according to the appendage protruding out of the wall, to the higher one round about the house, so as to flatten out wider above — so that from the parts below they should ascend unto the upper rooms, and from the middles unto the third stories).

G1277

διαπλέω (diapléō)

(dee-ap-leh'-o | thee-ah-PLEH-oh | thee-ah-PLAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G4126; to sail through; sail over.

  • to sail across

See also

G1223, G4126

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1277.1–G1277.2 below.

G1277.1

διαπληκτίζομαι (diaplēktizomai)

(dee-ah-pleek-TID-zo-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to spar, come to blows (διά + πλήσσω, to strike). Moses' second day out among his people: 'he saw two men, Hebrews, brawling — and he says to the one in the wrong, Why do you beat your neighbor?' The would-be reconciler is refused ('who made you a ruler and judge over us?'), and Stephen reads the refusal as the pattern: the deliverer God sent, not recognized the first time (Exodus 2:13-14; Acts 7:26-35).

  • to brawl
  • to come to blows

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 2:13 (and coming forth the second day, he saw two men, Hebrews, skirmishing — and he says to the one in the wrong, Why do you beat your neighbor?).

G1277.2

διαπνέω (diapneō)

(dhee-ap-NEH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to blow through, to breathe (διά, through + πνέω, to blow). The Song's word for the day's cool breathing and the summoned garden winds — "until the day breathes and the shadows flee."

  • to blow through
  • to breathe (of the day, the wind)

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Song of Solomon 2:17 ("until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved — be like a gazelle on the cleft mountains"); Song of Solomon 4:6 (until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense); Song of Solomon 4:16 ("awake, O north wind, and come, O south — blow through my garden, that its spices may flow out; let my beloved come to his garden").

G1278

διαπονέω (diaponéō)

(dee-ap-on-eh'-o | thee-ah-poh-NEH-oh | thee-ah-poh-NAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and a derivative of G4192; to toil through, i.e., (passively) be worried; be grieved.

  • to work out laboriously, make complete by labor
    • to exert one's self, strive
    • to manage with pains, accomplish with great labor
    • to be troubled, displeased, offended, pained, to be worked up

See also

G1223, G4192

G1279

διαπορεύομαι (diaporeúomai)

(dee-ap-or-yoo'-om-ahee | thee-ah-poh-REV-oh-meh | thee-ah-poh-RAVE-oh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G4198; to travel through; go through, journey in, pass by.

  • to cause to pass through a place
  • to carry across
  • to journey through a place, go through
  • to travel through

See also

G1223, G4198

G1280

διαπορέω (diaporéō)

(dee-ap-or-eh'-o | thee-ah-poh-REH-oh | thee-ah-poh-RAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G639; to be thoroughly nonplussed; (be in) doubt, be (much) perplexed.

  • to be entirely at loss, to be in perplexity

See also

G639, G1223

G1281

διαπραγματεύομαι (diapragmateúomai)

(dee-ap-rag-mat-yoo'-om-ahee | thee-ah-prahg-ma-TEV-oh-meh | thee-ah-prahg-ma-TAVE-oh-may)

Definition

from G1223 and G4231; to thoroughly occupy oneself, i.e., (transitively and by implication) to earn in business; gain by trading.

  • thoroughly, earnestly to undertake a business
  • to undertake a business for sake of gain

See also

G1223, G4231

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1281.1 below.

G1281.1

διάπρασις (diaprasis)

(dee-AH-prah-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a sale, thing sold (διά + πιπράσκω, to sell). The Levites' exception inside the walled-city rule: for everyone else the unredeemed city house passes permanently to the buyer, but 'the sale of the houses of the cities of the Levites shall go forth in the release — for the houses of the Levites' cities, this is their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel' (Leviticus 25:30, 32-33). The tribe whose portion is the LORD can never permanently lose its foothold among the people.

  • sale

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 25:33 (and whatever should be ransomed from the Levites — the sale of houses of the city of their possession shall go forth in the release; for the houses of the cities of the Levites, this is their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel).

See also

G950.1

G1282

διαπρίω (diapríō)

(dee-ap-ree'-o | thee-ah-PREE-oh | thee-ah-PREE-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and the base of G4249; to saw asunder, i.e., (figuratively) to exasperate; cut (to the heart).

  • to saw asunder or in two, to divide by a saw
  • to be sawn through mentally, i.e., to be rent with vexation

See also

G1223, G4249

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1282.1–G1282.2 below.

G1282.1

διάπτωσις (diaptōsis)

(dhee-AH-pto-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a downfall, ruin (διά + πίπτω, to fall). The LXX's dark rendering at two names: Jabez's mother bearing her son "in downfall," and Topheth re-named — the valley where Jeremiah shattered the jar, called Downfall in the Greek.

  • downfall
  • ruin

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Chronicles 4:9 (Jabez, more honorable than his brothers — his mother named him saying, "I bore him in downfall"); Jeremiah 19:6 (the days are coming when this place shall no longer be called Topheth, but the valley of downfall and slaughter); Jeremiah 19:14 (Jeremiah came from the downfall, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the LORD's house).

G1282.2

διαρπαγή (diarpagē)

(thee-ar-pa-YEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Feminine noun from διαρπάζω (G1283, to plunder); plunder, ravaging, a prey — the unbelief-word of Kadesh (our children will become plunder) which God reverses in the very next breath.

  • plunder, spoil, a prey

Septuagint usage

16 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 14:3 (our wives and children will become plunder); Numbers 14:31 (your little ones, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring in); Esther 7:4 (we have been sold for ravaging); Isaiah 5:5.

See also

G1283

G1283

διαρπάζω (diarpázō)

(dee-ar-pad'-zo | thee-ar-PA-zoh | thee-ar-PA-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and G726; to seize asunder, i.e., plunder; spoil.

  • to plunder

See also

G726, G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1283.2 below.

G1283.2

διαρραίνω (diarrhainō)

(dee-ar-REH-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to sprinkle about (διά + ῥαίνω, to sprinkle). The adulteress's set-dressing: 'I have sprinkled my bed with saffron, and my house with cinnamon' — sanctuary-grade spices (cinnamon belongs to the holy anointing oil, Exodus 30:23) repurposed to perfume a trap whose exits run down to death (Proverbs 7:17, 27).

  • to sprinkle about

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Proverbs 7:17 (I have sprinkled my bed with saffron — and my house with cinnamon).

See also

G619.1

G1284

διαῤῥήσσω (diarrhḗssō)

(dee-ar-hrayce'-so | thee-ar-RASE-soh | thee-ar-RASE-soh)

Definition

from G1223 and G4486; to tear asunder; break, rend.

  • to break asunder, burst through, rend asunder
  • to rend, which was done by the Jews to their clothes in cases of extreme indignation or in deep grief

See also

G1223, G4486

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1284.1–G1284.4 below.

G1284.1

διαρρίπτω (diarriptō)

(dee-ar-REEP-to)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to fling apart, scatter about (διά, apart + ῥίπτω, to throw). The sparks scattered from Leviathan's mouth — and the road-building command of Isaiah 62: cast the stones out of the way, lift up a standard for the peoples.

  • to scatter
  • to fling apart

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 41:19 (out of his mouth go forth as burning lamps — and are scattered about as hearths of fire); Isaiah 62:10 (go through my gates, and prepare the way for my people — and scatter away the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the nations).

G1284.2

διαρτάομαι (diartaomai)

(dee-ar-TAH-o-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to waver, hang suspended, be unsteady (from ἀρτάω, to hang). Balaam's forced oracle at its theological summit: 'God is not as a man, to waver — nor as a son of man, to be threatened. He, having spoken, shall He not do? Shall He speak, and not adhere to it?' Divine immutability stated from a hostile hilltop: the blessing cannot be revoked because the Blesser cannot be suspended mid-word (Numbers 23:19-20; cf. 1 Samuel 15:29; Malachi 3:6).

  • to waver
  • to hang unsteady

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Numbers 23:19 (God is not as a man, to waver — nor as a son of man, to be threatened; He, in speaking, shall He not do? shall He speak, and not adhere to it?).

G1284.3

διαρτίζω (diartizō)

(dee-ahr-TEE-zo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to fashion completely, mold throughout (διά + ἀρτίζω, to make ready). Elihu's leveling word before he speaks for God: "from clay you were molded, as also I — we have been molded from the same."

  • to mold
  • to fashion completely

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 33:6 (twice — "from clay you were molded, even as also I — from out of the same we have been molded").

G1284.4

διασαλεύω (diasaleuō)

(dee-ah-sah-LEV-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to shake violently, convulse (διά + σαλεύω, to shake). The cup-woe's return stroke: 'drink the fullness of dishonor from glory — and be shaken! The cup of the right hand of the LORD has come around to you, and dishonor is gathered upon your glory.' The nation that made its neighbor drink to gaze on his shame receives the same vessel back, from a higher hand (Habakkuk 2:15-16).

  • to shake violently
  • to convulse

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Habakkuk 2:16 (drink the fullness of the dishonor of your glory, and be shaken! — the cup of the right hand of the LORD has encircled you, and dishonor was brought upon your glory).

See also

G397.1

G1285

διασαφέω (diasaphéō)

(dee-as-af-eh'-o | thee-ah-sa-FEH-oh | thee-ah-sa-FAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and σαφής (clear); to clear thoroughly, i.e., (figuratively) declare; tell unto.

  • to make clear or plain, to explain, unfold, declare
  • of things done, to declare i.e., to tell, announce, narrate

See also

G1223

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1285.1 below.

G1285.1

διασάφησις (diasaphēsis)

(dee-ah-SAH-fee-sees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a making-clear: interpretation, plain report (from διασαφέω, to explain — the disciples' request-word over the parable, Matthew 13:36). Joseph's confession in the prison — "is not their interpretation through God?" — and the plain copy of Tattenai's letter to Darius.

  • interpretation
  • plain report

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 40:8 ("we saw a dream, and there is no one interpreting it" — and Joseph said to them, "is not their interpretation through God? describe it then to me"); Ezra 5:6 (the interpretation of the letter which Tattenai the governor beyond the river sent — to Darius the king).

G1286

διασείω (diaseíō)

(dee-as-i'-o | thee-ah-SEE-oh | thee-ah-SEE-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G4579; to shake thoroughly, i.e., (figuratively) to intimidate; do violence to.

  • to shake thoroughly
  • to make to tremble
  • to terrify
  • to agitate
  • to extort from one by intimidation money or other property

See also

G1223, G4579

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1286.1–G1286.3 below.

G1286.1

διασκεδάζω (diaskedazō)

(thee-a-ske-THAH-zoh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from διά (apart) and σκεδάννυμι (to scatter); to scatter utterly, disperse — and, in the LXX's gravest idiom, to break, annul, make void: the standing rendering of הֵפֵר (heper) for breaking a covenant. The word runs both directions: man effacing God's covenant (Leviticus 26:15), and God refusing to efface His (Leviticus 26:44; Judges 2:1).

  • to break, annul, make void (a covenant, a counsel)
  • to scatter, disperse

Septuagint usage

38 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 17:14 (the uncircumcised has voided the covenant); Leviticus 26:15; Leviticus 26:44 ("I will not efface My covenant with them"); Deuteronomy 31:16 ("this people... will efface My covenant"); Judges 2:1 ("I will never break My covenant with you"); 2 Samuel 17:14 (Ahithophel's counsel broken up).

See also

G1242, G4650

G1286.2

διασκευάζομαι (diaskeuazomai)

(dee-ah-skev-AH-zo-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to be fully equipped, arrayed for battle (διά + σκευάζω, to prepare). At the Jordan crossing: 'the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh passed over, equipped, in front of the sons of Israel — just as Moses gave charge to them.' Tribes already holding their inheritance crossing armed for their brothers' sake: the vow of Numbers 32 kept to the letter (Joshua 4:12; 22:1-4).

  • to be equipped
  • to be arrayed

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Joshua 4:12 (and the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh passed over, being equipped, in front of the sons of Israel — just as Moses gave charge to them).

G1286.3

διασκευή (diaskeuē)

(dee-ah-skev-EE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — equipment, furnishing, full outfit (διά + σκευή, gear). In Bezalel's Spirit-given commission: 'the tent of the testimony, and the ark of the covenant, and the atonement-seat upon it — and the equipment of the tent.' Even the hardware of the sanctuary is covered by the filling 'with a divine spirit of wisdom' (Exodus 31:3-7): no article of the holy place too small for inspired craftsmanship.

  • equipment
  • furnishing

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 31:7 (the tent of the testimony, and the ark of the covenant, and the atonement-seat upon it — and the equipment of the tent).

G1287

διασκορπίζω (diaskorpízō)

(dee-as-kor-pid'-zo | thee-ah-skore-PEE-zoh | thee-ah-skore-PEE-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and G4650; to dissipate, i.e., (genitive case) to rout or separate; specially, to winnow; figuratively, to squander; disperse, scatter (abroad), strew, waste.

  • to scatter abroad, disperse, to winnow
    • to throw the grain a considerable distance, or up into the air, that it may be separated from the chaff
    • to gather the wheat, freed from the chaff into the granary
    • to winnow grain

See also

G1223, G4650

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1287.1–G1287.3 below.

G1287.1

διασκορπισμός (diaskorpismos)

(dhee-ah-skor-peez-MOS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a scattering, dispersion (from διασκορπίζω above, to scatter abroad). Exile vocabulary — Israel given for a dispersion among the kingdoms, and Daniel's clock running until the scattering of the holy people's power is ended.

  • scattering, dispersion
  • exile among the nations

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 24:9 (the bad figs — "I will give them for a dispersion into all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and a byword"); Ezekiel 6:8 (yet a remnant is left — some who escape the sword among the nations, in your dispersion through the countries); Ezekiel 13:20 (against the sorceresses' magic bands — the hunted souls whom they scatter); Daniel 12:7 (the oath by Him who lives forever — when the scattering of the power of the holy people is complete, all these things shall be finished).

G1287.2

δίασμα (diasma)

(DHEE-az-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — the warp, the web set up on a loom. Delilah's loom-word: Samson's seven locks woven into the warp and fastened with the pin — and torn away with it.

  • warp
  • loom-web

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Judges 16:13 ("if you weave the seven locks of my head with the warp" — the third telling of the secret that was not yet the secret); Judges 16:14 (she fastened it with the pin and called, "the Philistines are upon you, Samson!" — and he awoke and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the warp).

G1287.3

διασπασμός (diaspasmos)

(dee-ah-spas-MOS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a tearing in pieces (from διασπάω, to tear apart). Jeremiah's four-fold sentence: 'I will avenge against them four kinds, says the LORD — the sword for slaughter, and the dogs for tearing in pieces, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the heaven for devouring and corruption.' Judgment enumerated like a requisition list (Jeremiah 15:3) — the terrible arithmetic behind 'who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?' (Jeremiah 15:5).

  • tearing in pieces

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 15:3 (and I will avenge against them four forms, says the LORD — the sword for slaughter, and the dogs for tearing in pieces, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the winged creatures of the heaven for food and corruption).

G1288

διασπάω (diaspáō)

(dee-as-pah'-o | thee-ah-SPA-oh | thee-ah-SPA-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G4685; to draw apart, i.e., sever or dismember; pluck asunder, pull in pieces.

  • to rend asunder, break asunder
    • of a man, to tear in pieces

See also

G1223, G4685

G1289

διασπείρω (diaspeírō)

(dee-as-pi'-ro | thee-ah-SPEE-roh | thee-ah-SPEE-roh)

Definition

from G1223 and G4687; to sow throughout, i.e., (figuratively) distribute in foreign lands; scatter abroad.

  • to scatter abroad, disperse

See also

G1223, G4687

G1290

διασπορά (diasporá)

(dee-as-por-ah' | thee-ah-spoh-RA | thee-ah-spoh-RA)

Definition

from G1289; dispersion, i.e., (specially and concretely) the (converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries; (which are) scattered (abroad).

  • a scattering, dispersion
    • of Israelites dispersed among foreign nations
    • of the Christians scattered abroad among the Gentiles

See also

G1289

G1291

διαστέλλομαι (diastéllomai)

(dee-as-tel'-lom-ahee | thee-ah-STEL-loh-meh | thee-ah-STALE-loh-may)

Definition

middle voice from G1223 and G4724; to set (oneself) apart (figuratively, distinguish), i.e., (by implication) to enjoin; charge, that which was (give) commanded(-ment).

  • to draw asunder, divide, distinguish, dispose, order
  • to open one's self i.e., one's mind, to set forth distinctly
  • to admonish, order, charge

See also

G1223, G4724

G1292

διάστημα (diástēma)

(dee-as'-tay-mah | thee-AH-stay-ma | thee-AH-stay-ma)

Definition

from G1339; an interval; space.

  • an interval, distance, space of time

See also

G1339

G1293

διαστολή (diastolḗ)

(dee-as-tol-ay' | thee-ah-stoh-LAY | thee-ah-stoh-LAY)

Definition

from G1291; a variation; difference, distinction.

  • a distinction, difference
    • of the different sounds musical instruments make

See also

G1291

G1294

διαστρέφω (diastréphō)

(dee-as-tref'-o | thee-ah-STREH-foh | thee-ah-STRAY-foh)

Definition

from G1223 and G4762; to distort, i.e., (figuratively) misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt; perverse(-rt), turn away.

  • to distort, turn aside
    • to oppose, plot against the saving purposes and plans of God
  • to turn aside from the right path, to pervert, corrupt

See also

G1223, G4762

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G1294.1–G1294.4 below.

G1294.1

διαστροφή (diastrophē)

(dee-ah-stro-FEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a twisting, perversion (the noun of διαστρέφω, to distort — the 'crooked generation' participle of Philippians 2:15). In the profile of the men wisdom rescues from: 'who are glad over evils, and rejoice over evil perversion.' Not merely doing the twisted thing but delighting in it — joy itself gone crooked, the precise inversion of love that 'does not rejoice at wrongdoing' (Proverbs 2:14; 1 Corinthians 13:6).

  • perversion
  • twisting

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Proverbs 2:14 (O the ones being glad over evils — and rejoicing over evil perverseness).

G1294.2

διαστρώννυμι (diastrōnnymi)

(dee-ah-STRO-nee-mee)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to spread out (bedding), lay coverings (διά + στρώννυμι, to spread). The bed spread for Saul on the roof at Ramah on the eve of his anointing — and the adulteress's spread bed of Egyptian rugs.

  • to spread bedding
  • to lay coverings

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Samuel 9:25 (they spread out bedding for Saul upon the roof — and he lay down); Proverbs 7:16 ("I have stretched ropes upon my bed — and I have spread it with double-piled rugs from Egypt").

See also

G295.1

G1294.3

διασφαγή (diasphagē)

(dee-ah-sfah-GHEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a breach, gap (διά + σφάζω, to cleave). The enemies' intelligence report: Sanballat and the coalition heard 'that the development of the walls of Jerusalem ascended, that the gaps began to be blocked up — and it appeared exceedingly wicked to them.' Progress measured by its opposition: every closed breach raised the temperature of the conspiracy (Nehemiah 4:7-8).

  • breach
  • gap

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Nehemiah 4:7 (and it came to pass as Sanballat heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that the development of the walls of Jerusalem ascended, that the gaps began to be blocked up — that it appeared exceedingly wicked to them).

See also

G399.3

G1294.4

διασχίζω (diaschizō)

(dee-ah-SKHEE-zo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to split apart, cleave through (διά, apart + σχίζω, to split). The verb of the sea's parting — all night the strong south wind, and the water was split apart — and the psalm's grief-word for mockers torn apart yet feeling no compunction.

  • to split apart
  • to cleave through

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 14:21 (Moses stretched out his hand upon the sea, and the LORD drew back the sea by a mighty south wind all the night — and made the sea dry, and the water was split apart); Psalms 35:15 (against me they were glad and gathered together — scourges were gathered upon me, and I did not know; they were split apart and were not pierced with regret).

G1295

διασώζω (diasṓzō)

(dee-as-odze'-o | thee-ah-SOH-zoh | thee-ah-SOH-zoh)

Definition

from G1223 and G4982; to save thoroughly, i.e., (by implication or analogy) to cure, preserve, rescue, etc; bring safe, escape (safe), heal, make perfectly whole, save.

  • to preserve through danger, to bring safely through
    • to save, i.e., cure one who is sick, bring him through
  • to save, keep from perishing
  • to save out of danger, rescue

See also

G1223, G4982

G1296

διαταγή (diatagḗ)

(dee-at-ag-ay' | thee-ah-ta-GAY | thee-ah-ta-GAY)

Definition

from G1299; arrangement, i.e., institution; instrumentality.

  • a disposition, arrangement, ordinance

See also

G1299

G1297

διάταγμα (diátagma)

(dee-at'-ag-mah | thee-AH-tahg-ma | thee-AH-tahg-ma)

Definition

from G1299; an arrangement, i.e., (authoritative) edict; commandment.

  • an injunction, mandate

See also

G1299

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1297.1 below.

G1297.1

διάταξις (diataxis)

(dee-ah-TAX-ees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun from διατάσσω (G1299, to arrange in order, appoint) — an ordered arrangement: the priestly courses, the temple's measured plan, and — in Psalm 119 — the standing ordinance by which creation itself continues.

  • arrangement, disposition
  • ordinance

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Chronicles 31:16 (the priests' daily service by their arrangement — Hezekiah's reform); Psalm 119:91 ("by Your arrangement the day continues, for all things are Your servants"); Ezekiel 42:20 (the measured wall separating holy from profane); Ezekiel 43:10 ("describe the house... and its arrangement," that Israel may be ashamed).

See also

G1299

G1298

διαταράσσω (diatarássō)

(dee-at-ar-as'-so | thee-ah-ta-RAHS-soh | thee-ah-ta-RAHS-soh)

Definition

from G1223 and G5015; to disturb wholly, i.e., agitate (with alarm); trouble.

  • to agitate greatly, trouble greatly

See also

G1223, G5015

G1299

διατάσσω (diatássō)

(dee-at-as'-so | thee-ah-TAHS-soh | thee-ah-TAHS-soh)

Definition

from G1223 and G5021; to arrange thoroughly, i.e., (specially) institute, prescribe, etc; appoint, command, give, (set in) order, ordain.

  • to arrange, appoint, ordain, prescribe, give order

See also

G1223, G5021

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1299.1 below.

G1299.1

διατείνω (diateinō)

(dhee-ah-TEE-no)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to stretch out, extend at full length (διά, through + τείνω, to stretch). Of anger drawn out, snares spread, the bow bent, and the heavens stretched out like a tent.

  • to stretch out, extend
  • to bend (a bow), spread (a net)

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 85:5 (the plea of the returned exiles — "will You extend Your anger to all generations?"); Psalms 140:5 (the proud have hidden a trap for me — cords they have extended as a snare beside the path); Isaiah 21:15 (the fugitives of Arabia flee from the sword and from the extended, bent bow); Isaiah 40:22 (He who sits above the circle of the earth — stretching out the heavens like a curtain, extending them as a tent to dwell in).

G1300

διατελέω (diateléō)

(dee-at-el-eh'-o | thee-ah-teh-LEH-oh | thee-ah-tay-LAY-oh)

Definition

from G1223 and G5055; to accomplish thoroughly, i.e., (subjectively) to persist; continue.

  • to bring thoroughly to an end, accomplish

See also

G1223, G5055

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G1300.1 below.

G1300.1

διατήκω (diatēkō)

(dee-ah-TEE-ko)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to melt through, dissolve utterly (διά + τήκω, to melt). Habakkuk's theophany: 'He stood, and the earth shook; He looked — and nations melted; the mountains were shattered by force, the eternal hills melted away: His ways are eternal.' A glance dissolves geopolitics; only His ways carry the adjective 'eternal' that the hills just lost (Habakkuk 3:6).

  • to melt through
  • to dissolve

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Habakkuk 3:6 (at His feet the earth stood and was shaken; He looked and nations melted — the mountains were broken through by force, the eternal hills melted away; His ways are eternal).

Have a suggestion, or spotted something to fix?
✦ The Hyperlinked Bible