διαφέρω
diaphérō · G1308 · Greek · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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to carry through, to take through
To carry or take something through an area or structure
ExamplesMark 11:16 and He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple grounds.
Acts 13:49 And the word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region.
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to drive about, to carry about
To cause to move in various directions by means of a force
ExamplesActs 27:27 But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to suspect that they were approaching some land.
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to differ from, to be different from
To be different from someone or something
Examples1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
Galatians 4:1 Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave, although he is owner of everything,
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to be valuable, to have worth
To be of considerable value, in view of having certain distinctive characteristics
ExamplesMatthew 6:26 “Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?
Matthew 10:31 “So do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.
Matthew 12:12 “How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
How it’s used In 5 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
13 occurrences in 10 groups
- σύyou 3
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- οὐδείςno one 1
- σκεῦοςvessel, object 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- διάthrough+ ἱερόνtemple 1
- διάthrough+ χώραcountry, region, land 1
- ἐνin+ δόξαglory 1
- ἐνin+ Ἀδρίαςthe Adriatic sea 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μᾶλλονmore, more than, to a greater degree 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- δοκιμάζωto test 2
- ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 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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Semantic domains 4 entries
- To drive about, to carry about15.163
- Used of the wind driving a vessel off course, drawn from the same broad range of meaning as the carrying-through entry below.
- To carry through, to take through15.196
- Used of transporting goods along a route, as of Jesus not allowing anyone to carry merchandise through the temple grounds in Mark 11:16.
- To differ from, to be different from58.41
- Used of one thing possessing a distinguishing quality another lacks, drawn from the same broad range of meaning as the worth entries below.
- To be valuable, to have worth65.6
- Used of comparative worth assigned to something, as of people being more valuable than birds that neither sow nor reap in Matthew 6:26, more valuable than many sparrows in Matthew 10:31 and Luke 12:7, and a person being more valuable than a sheep in Matthew 12:12.
Word family 31 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 2 aorist διηνεγκον (but the subjunctive 3 person singular διενέγκῃ (Mk 11:16), the only…
1. to bear or carry through any place: σκεῦος διά τοῦ ἱεροῦ, Mk 11:16.
2. to carry different ways, i. e., a. transitive, to carry in different directions, to different places: thus, persons are said διαφέρεσθαι, who are carried hither and thither in a ship, driven to and fro, Acts 27:27 (Strabo 3, 2, 7, p. 144; σκάφος ὑπ' ἐναντίων πνευμάτων διαφερόμενον, Philo, migr. Abr. § 27; Lucian, Hermot. 28; often in Plutarch) metaphorically, to spread abroad: διεφέρετο ὁ λόγος τοῦ κυρίου δἰ ὅλης τῆς χώρας, Acts 13:49 (ἀγγελιας, Lucian, dial. deor. 24, 1; φήμη διαφέρεται, Plutarch, mor., p. 163 d.).
b. intransitive (like the Latindiffero) to differ: δοκιμάζειν τά διαφέροντα, to test, prove, the things that differ, i. e. to distinguish between good and evil, lawful and unlawful, Rom 2:18; Phm 1:10 (διάκρισις καλοῦ τέ καί κακοῦ, Heb 5:14); cf. Thol. Commentary on Romans, p. 111 edition 5.; Theophilus of Antioch ad Autol., p. 6, Otto edition δοκιμάζοντες τά διαφέροντα, ἤτοι φῶς, ἤ σκότος, ἤ λευκόν, ἤ μέλαν κτλ.); (others, adopting a secondary sense of each verb in the above passages, translate (cf. A. V.) to approve the things that excel; see Meyer (yet, cf. Weiss edition) on Romans, the passage cited; Ellicott on Philippians, the passage cited). διαφέρω τίνος, to differ from one, i. e. to excel, surpass one: Mt 6:26; Mt 10:31; Mt 12:12; Lk 12:7, Lk 12:24 (often so in Attic authors); τίνος ἐν τίνι, 1 Cor 15:41; (τίνος οὐδέν, Gal 4:1).
c. impersonally, διαφέρει, it makes a difference, it matters, is of importance: οὐδέν μοι διαφέρει, it matters nothing to me, Gal 2:6 (Plato, Prot., p. 316 b. ἡμῖν οὐδέν διαφέρει, p. 358 e.; de rep. 1, p. 340 c.; Demosthenes 124, 3 (in Philippians 3, 50); Polybius 3, 21, 9; Aelian v. h. 1, 25; others; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 394; Wetstein (1752) on Galatians, the passage cited)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 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.
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