διαμερίζω
to divide
‘to divide’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Middle or Passive
- A form that may be middle or passive — resolved by context.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- 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”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 10 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (18%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (9%)
- Verb, Present, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (9%)
+2 more forms (2 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1266 appears — 11 distinct verses across 5 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 6 verses
- Luke 11:17 διαμερισθεῖσα aor pass ptcp nom sg fem But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.
- Luke 11:18 διεμερίσθη aor pass ind 3sg If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
- Luke 12:52 διαμεμερισμένοι perf pass ptcp nom pl masc For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
- Luke 12:53 διαμερισθήσονται fut pass ind 3pl They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
- Luke 22:17 διαμερίσατε aor act impv 2pl He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves,
- Luke 23:34 διαμεριζόμενοι pres mid ptcp nom pl masc Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
John 1 verse
Acts 2 verses
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.
διαμεριζω — transliterated diamerízō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to divide.” More than half of its appearances fall in Luke. It appears 11 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 27:35. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1266 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
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 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 82%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 73%
- Johannine 1 verse · 9%
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: They parted 4×, Divided 2×, Parted 2×
- American Standard Version: Divided 2×, Parting 2×, They parted 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Divided 2×, They divided up 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Divided 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1266 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1266 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1266 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear 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 G1266 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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 cleave asunder, cut in pieces
- to be divided into opposing parts, to be at variance, in dissension
- to distribute
Word origin
Derived from δια (diá) (G1223) — through.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G1266 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1266, 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
- διαιρεω diairéō G1244 to divide
- 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
+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 διαμεριζω appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 12 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 10:25 διαμερίζω
- Deuteronomy 32:8 διαμερίζω
- Joshua 21:42 διαμερίζω
- Judges 5:30 διαμερίζω
- 2 Samuel 6:19 διαμερίζω
- 1 Chronicles 16:3 διαμερίζω
- Ezra 19:22 διαμερίζω
- Psalms 16:14 διαμερίζω
- Isaiah 34:17 διαμερίζω
- Ezekiel 47:21 διαμερίζω
- Micah 2:4 διαμερίζω
- Zechariah 14:1 διαμερίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1266) 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 10:25 διαμερίζω To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
- Genesis 49:7 διαμερίζω Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel.
- Deuteronomy 32:8 διαμερίζω When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 21:42 διαμερίζω These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
- Judges 5:30 διαμερίζω Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
- 2 Samuel 6:19 διαμερίζω He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his house.
- 1 Chronicles 16:3 διαμερίζω He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins.
- Ezra 19:22 διαμερίζω
- Psalms 16:14 διαμερίζω
- Psalms 21:19 διαμερίζω
- Psalms 54:22 διαμερίζω
- Psalms 59:8 διαμερίζω But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
- Psalms 107:8 διαμερίζω Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, For his wonderful works to the children of men!
- Isaiah 34:17 διαμερίζω He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 47:21 διαμερίζω So shall you divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.
- Micah 2:4 διαμερίζω In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
- Zechariah 14:1 διαμερίζω Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1266) 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.
