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King James Dictionary

Divers: Different; Unequal; Various.

DIVERS weights, and DIVERS measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. (Proverbs 20:10)

Divers: Some Ones; Certain Ones.

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. But when DIVERS were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. (Acts 19:8-9)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Divers:

is rendered "divers" in Hbr 9:10.
See DIFFER, C.

Divers:

denotes "parti-colored, variegated" (poikillo means "to make gay:" the root of the first syllable is pik--, found in Eng., "picture"), hence "divers," Mat 4:24; Mar 1:34; Luk 4:40; 2Ti 3:6; Tts 3:3; Hbr 2:4 (RV, "manifold"); 13:9; Jam 1:2 (RV, "manifold"); in 1Pe 1:6; 4:10, "manifold," both AV and RV.
See MANIFOLD.

Notes:

(1) Cp. polupoikilos, Eph 3:10, "manifold" (lit., "much varied").

(2) The pronoun tines, "some" (the plural of tis, "someone"), is translated "divers" in the AV of Mar 8:3; Act 19:9; RV, "some."

(3) In 1Cr 12:28, genos, in the plural, is rendered "divers kinds."
See DIVERSITIES.

Divers:

means "in many ways" (polus, "much," tropos, "a manner, way;" Eng., "trope"), "in divers manners," Hbr 1:1.

Note: The phrase kata topous, lit., "throughout places" (kata, "down, or throughout," in a distributive sense, topos, "a place"), is translated "in divers places," in Mat 24:7; Mar 13:8; Luk 21:11.