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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 - Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:39 - the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - If he said, ‘The spotted shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore striped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:3 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:32 - And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, “This we have found; please identify whether it is your son’s robe or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:21 - when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels,[fn] then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - ‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?—
A womb or two for every man;
spoil of dyed materials for Sisera,
spoil of dyed materials embroidered,
two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:2 - So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:6 - There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods[fn] and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:10 - I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:13 - Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:18 - And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my 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 will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:8 - “I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:3 - the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses—all of them strong.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:6 - The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”
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