διανέμω
dianémō · G1268 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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To cause the spread or extension of something (to spread (a report))
ExamplesActs 4:17 “But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let’s warn them not to speak any longer to any person in this name.”
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to become known, to spread
(A figurative extension of meaning of διανέμομαι ‘to spread out,’ not occurring in the NT) To become known as the result of information spreading abroad
ExamplesActs 4:17 “But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let’s warn them not to speak any longer to any person in this name.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰςto+ λαόςpeople 1
- ἐπίon+ πλείωνmore, greater 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- διαδίδωμι diadídōmi · G1239 · to give out, to distribute
- διαδίδωμι shares with διανέμω the core sense of distributing or spreading something, and is specifically used in Acts 4:17 of spreading teaching or reports 'among the people.' Both verbs describe the act of disseminating information, though διαδίδωμι emphasizes the action of giving/delivering throughout.
Contrasting words 1 word
- κρύπτω krýptō · G2928 · to keep safe, to cause to be protected, to protect
- κρύπτω means to hide or conceal, which is the lexical opposite of διανέμω (to disseminate/spread). Where διανέμω involves making information known widely, κρύπτω involves keeping it hidden or secret.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To become known, to spread28.24
- Used of a matter becoming widely known despite efforts at suppression, as of the Council's concern that the report of the healed man not spread any further among the people in Acts 4:17.
- To spread (a report)84.2
- Used of a report actively circulating outward, drawn from the same broad range of meaning as the becoming-known entry above.
Word family 22 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist passive διενεμεθην; to distribute, divide, (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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