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Variety

διαίρεσιςStrong’s G1243

diairesis

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Diairesis is the Greek word usually translated “varieties”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.”
1 Corinthians 12:4 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “varieties”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • varieties 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Corinthians 3

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

διαίρεσις diairesis · variety

δι-αίρεσις, -εως, ἡ (διαιρέω), [in LXX chiefly for מַחֲלֹקֶת ;] 1. a distinction, diference. 2. a division, distribution: 1Co.12:4-6 (cf. διαιρέω; Cremer, 616).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “variety” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

VARI'ETY, noun

[Latin varietas, from vario, to vary.]

  1. Intermixture of different things, or of things different in form; or a succession of different things.
  2. One thing of many which constitute variety In this sense, it has a plural; as the varieties of a species.
  3. Difference; dissimilitude.
  4. Variation; deviation; change from a former state. [Little used.]
All definitions
  1. Many and different kinds.
  2. In natural history, a difference not permanent or invariable, but occasioned by an accidental change; as a variety of any species of plant.
  3. Different sort; as varieties of soil or land.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.