διαίρεσις
division
‘division’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1243 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 12:4 Διαιρέσεις n nom pl fem Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:5 διαιρέσεις n nom pl fem There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 12:6 διαιρέσεις n nom pl fem There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun διαιρεσις centers on the idea of “division.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. 1 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 3 of 3 verses. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Corinthians 12:4. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1243 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 3 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Diversities 2×
- American Standard Version: Diversities 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Different 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Varieties 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1243 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1243 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1243 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1243 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- division, distribution
- distinction, difference
Word origin
Derived from διαιρεω (diairéō) (G1244) — to divide.
From G1244 ; a distinction or (concretely) variety : - difference diversity.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1243 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διαιρέσεις diairéseis | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 12:5 | 2 |
| Διαιρέσεις Diairéseis | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 12:4 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διαιρεσις appears 31 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 6 books.
- 31
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Joshua 19:51 διαίρεσις
- Judges 5:16 διαίρεσις
- 1 Chronicles 24:1 διαίρεσις
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 διαίρεσις
- Ezra 6:18 διαίρεσις
- Psalms 135:13 διαίρεσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1243) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Joshua 19:51 διαίρεσις These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land.
- Judges 5:16 διαίρεσις Why sat you among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.
- 1 Chronicles 24:1 διαίρεσις Thes were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 26:1 διαίρεσις For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
- 1 Chronicles 26:11 διαίρεσις Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
- 1 Chronicles 26:12 διαίρεσις Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 26:19 διαίρεσις These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 27:1 διαίρεσις Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers' [houses] and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king, in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year--of every division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:2 διαίρεσις Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:4 διαίρεσις Over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his division; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:5 διαίρεσις The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:6 διαίρεσις This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and [of] his division was Ammizabad his son.
- 1 Chronicles 27:7 διαίρεσις The fourth [captain] for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:8 διαίρεσις The fifth captain for this fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:9 διαίρεσις The sixth [captain] for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:10 διαίρεσις The seventh [captain] for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:11 διαίρεσις The eighth [captain] for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:12 διαίρεσις The ninth [captain] for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:13 διαίρεσις The tenth [captain] for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were Twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:14 διαίρεσις The eleventh [captain] for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:15 διαίρεσις The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 διαίρεσις He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
- 2 Chronicles 35:5 διαίρεσις Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brothers the children of the people, and [let there be for each] a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 35:10 διαίρεσις So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
- 2 Chronicles 35:12 διαίρεσις They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. So did they with the oxen.
- Ezra 6:18 διαίρεσις They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
- Psalms 135:13 διαίρεσις Your name, Yahweh, endures forever; Your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1243) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
