μερισμός
merismós · G3311 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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the point of division, the point of meeting
The point at which parts divide or meet
ExamplesHebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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to distribute, to give to each in turn, distribution
To distribute objects to a series of persons
ExamplesHebrews 2:4 God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 4 groups
- πνεῦμαspirit 2
- μυελόςmarrow 1
- ψυχήlife, soul 1
- ἁρμόςjoint 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄχριuntil 2
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 2 entries
- To distribute, to give to each in turn, distribution57.89
- This sense denotes the distribution of gifts. Hebrews 2:4 speaks of God “testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will,” rendered here as “distributions.”
- The point of division, the point of meeting63.24
- This sense denotes the precise point at which distinct things meet or divide. Hebrews 4:12 states that the word of God is “sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow.”
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μερισμοῦ, ὁ (μερίζω), a division, partition (Plato, Polybius, Strabo, (others)); 1. a…
1. a distribution; plural distributions of various kinds: πνεύματος ἁγίου, genitive of the object, Heb 2:4.
2. a separation: ἄχρι μερισμοῦ ψυχῆς καί πνεύματος, which many take actively: 'up to the dividing' i. e. so far as to cleave asunder or separate; but it is not easy to understand what the dividing of the 'soul' is. Hence, it is more correct, I think, and more in accordance with the context, to take the word passively (just as other verbal substantive ending in μος are used, e. g. ἁγιασμός, πειρασμός), and translate even to the division, etc., i. e. to that most hidden spot, the dividing line between soul and spirit, where the one passes into the other, Heb 4:12; (cf. Siegfried, Philo von Alex. as above with, p. 325f).
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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