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Lexicon :: Strong's G4164 - poikilos

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ποικίλος
Transliteration
poikilos (Key)
Pronunciation
poy-kee'-los
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:484,901

Strong’s Definitions

ποικίλος poikílos, poy-kee'-los; of uncertain derivation; motley, i.e. various in character:—divers, manifold.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G4164 in the following manner: divers (8x), manifold (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G4164 in the following manner: divers (8x), manifold (2x).

  1. a various colours, variegated

  2. of various sorts

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ποικίλος poikílos, poy-kee'-los; of uncertain derivation; motley, i.e. various in character:—divers, manifold.
STRONGS G4164:
ποικίλος, ποικίλη, ποικίλον, from Homer down, various, i. e.
a. of divers colors, variegated: the Sept.
b. equivalent to of divers sorts: Matthew 4:24; Mark 1:34; Luke 4:40; 2 Timothy 3:6; Titus 3:3; Hebrews 2:4; Hebrews 13:9; James 1:2; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 4:10 ((A. V. in the last two examples manifold)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
4:24
Mark
1:34
Luke
4:40
2 Timothy
3:6
Titus
3:3
Hebrews
2:4; 13:9
James
1:2
1 Peter
1:6; 4:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4164 matches the Greek ποικίλος (poikilos),
which occurs 21 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:37 - And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39 - And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:3 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:32 - And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:21 - When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:2 - Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:6 - Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:10 - I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:13 - Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:18 - And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:16 - Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:8 - I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:3 - And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:6 - The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
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