Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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Divide
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Luke 22:17
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
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חָלַק
châlaq · khaw-lak'
18 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences
to be smooth (figuratively); by implication (as smooth stones were used for lots) to apportion or separate
Strong's KJV usage: deal, distribute, divide, flatter, give, (have, im-) part(-ner), take away a portion, receive, separate self, (be) smooth(-er).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:7Strong's last: Daniel 11:39
Open full H2505 profile →בָּדַל
bâdal · baw-dal'
4 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out), × utterly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 1:6Strong's last: Exodus 26:33
Open full H914 profile →פָּרַס
pâraç · paw-ras'
4 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to break in pieces, i.e. (usually without violence) to split, distribute
Strong's KJV usage: deal, divide, have hoofs, part, tear.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 11:4Strong's last: Deuteronomy 14:7
Open full H6536 profile →חָצָה
châtsâh · khaw-tsaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
to cut or split in two; to halve
Strong's KJV usage: divide, × live out half, reach to the midst, participle
Strong's first: Exodus 21:35Strong's last: Numbers 31:27
Open full H2673 profile →נָחַל
nâchal · naw-khal'
3 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences
to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy; causatively, to bequeath, or (generally) distribute, instate
Strong's KJV usage: divide, have (inheritance), take as a heritage, (cause to, give to, make to) inherit, (distribute for, divide (for, for an, by), give for, have, leave for, take (for)) inheritance, (have in, cause to, be made to) possess(-ion).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 33:54Strong's last: Numbers 34:18
Open full H5157 profile →נָפַל
nâphal · naw-fal'
3 times translated as this KJV form435 total Strong's occurrences
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 45:1Strong's last: Ezekiel 48:29
Open full H5307 profile →בָּקַע
bâqaʻ · baw-kah'
2 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open
Strong's KJV usage: make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.
Strong's first: Exodus 14:16Strong's last: Nehemiah 9:11
Open full H1234 profile →גָּזַר
gâzar · gaw-zar'
2 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude, or decide
Strong's KJV usage: cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 3:25Strong's last: 1 Kings 3:26
Open full H1504 profile →διαμερίζω
diamerízō · dee-am-er-id'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to partition thoroughly (literally in distribution, figuratively in dissension)
Strong's KJV usage: :--cloven, divide, part.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 22:17Strong's last: Luke 22:17
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merízō · mer-id'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
to part, i.e. (literally) to apportion, bestow, share, or (figuratively) to disunite, differ
Strong's KJV usage: :--deal, be difference between, distribute, divide, give part.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 12:13Strong's last: Luke 12:13
Open full G3307 profile →פָּלַג
pâlag · paw-lag'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to split (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: divide.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 55:9Strong's last: Psalms 55:9
Open full H6385 profile →פָּרַר
pârar · paw-rar'
1 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate
Strong's KJV usage: × any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, × clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, × utterly, make void.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 74:13Strong's last: Psalms 74:13
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H914
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
H914
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
H914
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
H2505
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
H2505
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
H1234
But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
H2505
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
H2673
And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
H2673
And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
H914
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
no direct Strong's tag
And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
no direct Strong's tag
And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
H6536
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
H6536
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
H2673
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
H5157
And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
H5157
These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
H5157
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
no direct Strong's tag
These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
H6536
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
H6536
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
no direct Strong's tag
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
no direct Strong's tag
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
no direct Strong's tag
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
H2505
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
English meaning and historical usage.
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divide
DIVIDE, verb transitive [Latin , to part. See the latter words.]
1. To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces.
DIVIDE the living child in two. 1 Kings 3:25.
2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit. A wall divides two houses. The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres.
Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters. Genesis 1:6.
3. To make partition of, among a number.
Ye shall divide the land by lot. Numbers 33:54.
4. To open; to cleave.
Thou dist divide the sea. Nehemiah 9:11.
5. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.
There shall be five in one house divided, three against two--Luke 12:13.
6. To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.
And he divided to them his living. Luke 15:12.
7. To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.
8. To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.
DIVIDE, verb intransitive
1. To part; to open; to cleave.
2. To break friendship; as, brothers divide
3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.
The emperors sat, voted and divided with their equals.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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