διαιρέω
to divide
‘to divide’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G1244 appears in the Aorist tense, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Luke 1 verse
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.
διαιρεω — transliterated diairéō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to divide.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. More than half of its appearances fall in Luke. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 15:12. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1244 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 50%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
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: Dividing 1×, He divided 1×
- American Standard Version: Dividing 1×, He divided 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Apportions 1×, He divided 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Distributing them 1×, He distributed 1×, Thoroughly clear off 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1244 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1244 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1244 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1244 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.
- to divide into parts, to part, to tear, cleave or cut asunder
- to distribute
Word origin
Derived from δια (diá) (G1223) — through.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1244 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διαιροῦν diairoûn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 12:11 | 1 |
| διεῖλεν dieîlen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 15:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1244, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- διαβαινω diabaínō G1224 to pass through
- διαβαλλω diabállō G1225 to slander
- διαβεβαιοομαι diabebaióomai G1226 to affirm strongly
- διαβλεπω diablépō G1227 to look through
- διαγγελλω diangéllō G1229 to proclaim
- διαγινομαι diagínomai G1230 to continue
- διαγινωσκω diaginṓskō G1231 to ascertain
- διαγογγυζω diagongýzō G1234 to murmur
- διαγρηγορεω diagrēgoréō G1235 to watch through
- διαγω diágō G1236 to lead through
- διαδεχομαι diadéchomai G1237 to receive in succession
- διαδημα diádēma G1238 diadem
- διαδιδωμι diadídōmi G1239 to distribute
- διαζωννυμι diazṓnnymi G1241 to gird around
- διακαθαριζω diakatharízō G1245 to cleanse thoroughly
- διακατελεγχομαι diakatelénchomai G1246 to confute
- διακουομαι diakoúomai G1251 to hear fully
- διακρινω diakrínō G1252 to distinguish
- διακωλυω diakōlýō G1254 to hinder
- διαλαλεω dialaléō G1255 to converse
- διαλεγομαι dialégomai G1256 to discuss
- διαλειπω dialeípō G1257 to intermit
- διαλλασσω diallássō G1259 to reconcile
- διαλογιζομαι dialogízomai G1260 to deliberate
+62 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 89 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διαιρεω appears 38 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 36 verses in 18 books.
- 38
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 36
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:7 διααἱρέω
- Exodus 21:35 διααἱρέω
- Leviticus 1:12 διααἱρέω
- Numbers 31:27 διααἱρέω
- Joshua 18:4 διααἱρέω
- Judges 7:16 διααἱρέω
- 1 Samuel 15:29 διααἱρέω
- 2 Samuel 19:30 διααἱρέω
- 1 Kings 3:25 διααἱρέω
- 2 Kings 2:8 διααἱρέω
- 1 Chronicles 23:6 διααἱρέω
- Job 21:21 διααἱρέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1244) 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.
- Genesis 4:7 διααἱρέω If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
- Genesis 15:10 διααἱρέω He took him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.
- Genesis 32:8 διααἱρέω and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
- Genesis 33:1 διααἱρέω Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
- Exodus 21:35 διααἱρέω "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
- Leviticus 1:12 διααἱρέω He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,
- Leviticus 1:17 διααἱρέω He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 5:8 διααἱρέω He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.
- Numbers 31:27 διααἱρέω and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
- Numbers 31:42 διααἱρέω Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred
- Joshua 18:4 διααἱρέω Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.
- Joshua 18:5 διααἱρέω They shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.
- Joshua 22:8 διααἱρέω and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.
- Judges 7:16 διααἱρέω He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
- Judges 9:43 διααἱρέω He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and, behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.
- 1 Samuel 15:29 διααἱρέω Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
- 2 Samuel 19:30 διααἱρέω Mephibosheth said to the king, yes, let him take all, because my lord the king is come in peace to his own house.
- 1 Kings 3:25 διααἱρέω The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
- 1 Kings 3:26 διααἱρέω Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.
- 2 Kings 2:8 διααἱρέω Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they two went over on dry ground.
- 1 Chronicles 23:6 διααἱρέω David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 24:3 διααἱρέω David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
- 1 Chronicles 24:4 διααἱρέω There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.
- 1 Chronicles 24:5 διααἱρέω Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
- Job 21:21 διααἱρέω For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
- Psalms 47:14 διααἱρέω
- Psalms 54:10 διααἱρέω
- Psalms 67:13 διααἱρέω
- Psalms 135:13 διααἱρέω Your name, Yahweh, endures forever; Your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
- Proverbs 16:15 διααἱρέω In the light of the king's face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
- Proverbs 17:2 διααἱρέω A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, And shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
- Isaiah 9:2 διααἱρέω The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.
- Isaiah 30:28 διααἱρέω and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.
- Ezekiel 37:22 διααἱρέω and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
- Joel 4:2 διααἱρέω
- Amos 5:9 διααἱρέω Who brings sudden destruction on the strong, So that destruction comes on the fortress.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1244) 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.
