Quick Definition
διαίρεσις, εως, ἡ n.f. division, distribution, difference, distinction
Strong's Definition
from 1244; a distinction or (concretely) variety
KJV Usage: difference, diversity
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | αἱρέομαι
57.91 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Give
to divide, to distribute, division, distribution to divide and distribute to persons on the basis of certain implied distinctions or differences In 1CO 12:4 it is also possible to interpret διαίρεσις as meaning ‘difference’ or ‘variety’ (see 58.39).
58.39 · Nature, Class, Example · Different Kind or Class
difference, variety a state of difference in the nature of objects or events, with the implication of significant variety It is also possible to interpret διαίρεσις in 1CO 12:4 as the allotment or apportionment of such spiritual gifts (see 57.91).
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
δι-αίρεσις, -ews, 7, (διαιρέω, q- V-) ; 1. division, distribution, (Hat., Xen., Plat., al.). 2. distinction, difference, (Plat. Soph. p. 267 b. τίνα διαίρεσιν ἀγνωσίας τε καὶ γνώσεως θήσομεν ; al.) ; in particular, a distinction arising | from a different distribution to different persons, [A.V. diversity]: 1 Co. xii. 4-6, cf. 11 διαιροῦν ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ καθὼς βούλεται.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
διαίρεσις diairesis 3x
a division; a distinction, difference, diversity, 1 Cor. 12:4, 5, 6*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
δι-αίρεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< διαιρέω), [in LXX chiefly for מַחֲלֹקֶת ;]
a distinction, diference.
a division, distribution: I Co 12:4-6 (cf. διαιρέω; Cremer, 616).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
διαίρεσις auctor ad Hebraeos, or even a Jew like Paul, with Greek language in the very fibre of his thought, could never have used δ. for covenant without the slightest consciousness of its ordinary and invariable contemporary meaning. He would use the ‘* Biblical” word—* Biblical” in this case being synonymous with ‘‘archaic’’—but always with the possibility of a play on the later meaning of the word. This is what comes in Heb 9! (probably also in Gal 315), according to the usual view, which is responsible for the RV text in the former: see Milligan Docements, p. 75. Deissmann, among other difficulties, would have to prove that in iii/B.c. the older general meaning, established by Aristophanes, was extinct. The view to which we have capitulated, after strongly supporting the Westcott doctrine, is less heroic than consistent holding to one English word, but it can claim to account for its inconsistency. Among recent monographs may be mentioned an article by E. Riggenbach in Zheolog. Studien Th. Zahn . . dargebracht, and lexical studies by F. O. Norton (1908), J. Behm (1912) and E. Lohmeyer (1913). See also Ferguson Legal Terms Common to the Macedonian Inscrr. and the NT (Chicago, 1913), p. 42 ff.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
διαίρεσις (diairesis) — variety. διαίρ-εσις, εως, ἡ, divisibility, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. in Medicine texts, dissection, ζῴων [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2. b venesection, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2. c surgical operation, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
2. d plural, wounds, [Refs]
II. dividing, distribution, of money, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of spoil, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν διαιρέσει [ψήφων] in the reckoning of the votes on either side, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III. distinction, ἀγνωσίας τε καὶ γνώσεως [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τῆς δημοκρατίας καὶ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας] [Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV. in Logic, division of genus into species, τῶν γενῶν κατ᾽ εἴδη δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to συναγωγαί, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV. b separation of subject and predicate, περὶ σύνθεσιν καὶ δ. ἐστι τὸ ψεῦδος καὶ τὸ ἀληθές [Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV.2. ὁ παρὰ τὴν δ. [λόγος] the fallacy of division (compare σύνθεσις), [Refs]
V. Rhet., division or distribution into heads, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
VI. Grammars, resolution of a diphthong into two syllables, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of one word into two, κατὰ διαίρεσιν ἀναγνωστέον [Refs 1st c.BC+]
VII. in Metric, division of a line at the close of a foot, diaeresis, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
VIII. in Mathematics texts, δ. λόγου transformation of a ratio dividendo, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
IX. division of troops, of the Roman cohors, [Refs 1st c.AD+]