πολυποίκιλος
polypoíkilos · G4182 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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many and diverse, manifold, many-sided
Pertaining to that which is different in a number of ways
ExamplesEphesians 3:10 so that the multifaceted wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- ἁπλοῦς haploûs · G573 · to be healthy, to be sound, generous
- ἁπλοῦς denotes simplicity, singleness, or lack of complexity, directly opposing πολυποίκιλος which denotes multifarious complexity and diverse variegation
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Many and diverse, manifold, many-sided58.46
- The adjective describes something as many-sided or manifold in its variety. Paul's description of the church's role uses this term: “so that the multifaceted wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 3:10).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πολυποικιλον (πολύς and ποικίλος); 1. much-variegated; marked with a great variety of…
1. much-variegated; marked with a great variety of colors: of cloth or a painting; φαρεα, Euripides, Iph. T. 1149; στέφανον πολυποικιλον ἀνθεων, Eubulus ap Athen. 15, p. 679 d.
2. much varied, manifold: σοφία τοῦ Θεοῦ, manifesting itself in a great variety of forms, Eph 3:10; Theophil. ad Autol. 1, 6; ὀργή, Sibylline Oracles 8, 411; λόγος, the Orphica, hymn. 61, 4, and by other writings with other nouns.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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