Strong G1308διαφέρω
to spread/surpass
- Transliteration
- diapherō
- Pronunciation
- dee-af-er'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G1223 and G5342; to bear through that is (literally) transport; usually to bear apart that is (objectively) to toss about (figuratively report); subjectively to differ or (by implication) surpass: - be better carry differ from drive up and down be (more) excellent make matter publish be of more value.
Detailed definition
δια-φέρω
[in LXX for שְׁנָא (שְׁנָא (Dan.7:1-28 only); 1Ki.17:39, Est.3:13, al.;]
1. trans.,
__(a) to carry through: before διά, Mrk.11:16;
__(b) to carry about, spread abroad: pass., Act.13:49 27:27.
2. Intrans.,
__(a) to differ: τὰ διαφέροντα, Rom.2:18, Php.1:10 (R, mg., but see infr.); impers., διαφέρει, it makes a difference, it matters: Gal.2:6;
__(b) to excel: with genitive Mat.6:26 10:31 12:12, Luk.12:7, 24, 1Co.15:41, Gal.4:1; τὰ διαφέροντα, Rom.2:18, Php.1:10 (R, txt.; for discussion and reff. see ICC on Ro, Phi, ll. with).†
(AS)
[in LXX for שְׁנָא (שְׁנָא (Dan.7:1-28 only); 1Ki.17:39, Est.3:13, al.;]
1. trans.,
__(a) to carry through: before διά, Mrk.11:16;
__(b) to carry about, spread abroad: pass., Act.13:49 27:27.
2. Intrans.,
__(a) to differ: τὰ διαφέροντα, Rom.2:18, Php.1:10 (R, mg., but see infr.); impers., διαφέρει, it makes a difference, it matters: Gal.2:6;
__(b) to excel: with genitive Mat.6:26 10:31 12:12, Luk.12:7, 24, 1Co.15:41, Gal.4:1; τὰ διαφέροντα, Rom.2:18, Php.1:10 (R, txt.; for discussion and reff. see ICC on Ro, Phi, ll. with).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1308 appears in 13 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- be3
- good3
- differeth2
- excellent2
- value2
- carry1
- drive1
- from1
- maketh1
- matter1
- publish1
First verses
- Matthew 6:26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
- Matthew 10:31Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
- Matthew 12:12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
- Mark 11:16And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
- Luke 12:7But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
- Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
- Acts 13:49And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
- Acts 27:27But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
- Romans 2:18And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
- 1 Corinthians 15:41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
- Galatians 2:6But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
- Galatians 4:1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
- Philippians 1:10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
διαφέρω,
future διοίσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 321, διοίσομαι “hymnus ad Mercurium” 255, etc.:)]aorist 1 διήνεγκα, Ionic dialect διήνεικα: aorist 2 διήνεγκον:—carry over or across, δ. ναῦς τὸν Ἰσθμόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.8)]; carry from one to another, διαφέρεις κηρύγματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 382; [τὸ ἤλεκτρον] διαφέρεται εἰς τοὺς Ἕλληνας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 836b6: _metaphorically_, γλῶσσαν διοίσει)] will put the tongue in motion, will speak, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 323 codices)]
2 of Time, δ. τὸν αἰῶνα, τὸν βίον, go through life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.40, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” [10]; νύκτα [prev. author] “Rh.” 600: _absolutely_, ἄπαις διοίσει [prev. work] 982)]:—middle, live, continue, ὑγιηροὶ τἄλλα διαφέρονται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 56)]; σοῦ διοίσεται μόνος will pass his life apart from thee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 511; σκοπούμενος διοίσει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.24 (conjecture Dind. for διέσῃ).)]
3 bear through, bear to the end, σκῆπτρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1195)]; γαστρὸς ὄγκον δ., of a woman, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ion” 15, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.5: hence,)]
4 bear to the end, go through with, πόλεμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.25, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.11)]; but also, bear the burden of war, [Refs ([prev. author] 6.54)]; endure, support, with an adverb, ῥᾷστα γὰρ τὸ σόν τε σὺ κἀγὼ διοίσω τοὐμόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 321; δ. πότμον δάκρυσι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1143 (Lyric poetry))]: absolutely, of patients in disease, δ. ἕως τῶν εἰκοσιτεσσάρων ἡμερέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 40; δ. φθειρόμενος [prev. work] 12 (also ἡ νοῦσος δ. ἐννέα ἔτεα [prev. passage]).)]
II carry different ways, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 570, etc.; δ. ἕκαστα εἰς τὰς χώρας τὰς προσηκούσας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 9.8)]; toss about, ὅπλισμα.. διαφέρων ἐσφενδόνα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 715)]; δ. τὰς κόρας to turn the eyes about, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ba.” 1087. “Or.” 1261 (Lyric poetry))]:—passive, to be drawn apart, disrupted, opposed to συμφέρεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 242e, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 908.2)]; to be tossed about, uncertain in [NT+1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.5; δ. ἐν τῷ Ἀδρίᾳ NT.Act.27.27, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Galba” 26.)]
II.2 δ. τινά spread his fame abroad, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.60; εἰς ἅπαντας τὴν ἐκείνου μνήμην δ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.46)]:—passive, φήμη διηνέχθη [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.163c.)]
II.3 tear asunder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 754)]; disjoin, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1451a34 (_passive_))]: metaphorically, distract, τὰς ψυχὰς φροντίσιν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.133d, compare 97f (_passive_), 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 32.46 (_passive_).)]
II.4 δ. τὴν ψῆφον give one's vote a different way, i.e. against another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.138, etc.)]; but also, give each man his vote, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 49, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.74, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 5.8.)]
II.5 ἐράνους δ., ={διαλύεσθαι}, pay them up, discharge them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 22.)]
II.6 defer, reserve for judgement, τὸν αἴτιον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 68 (Lyric poetry, διασπαράσσει Scholia).)]
II.7 plunder, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.90)]:—passive, τῶν ἀπὸ [τῆς οἰκίας] φορτίων διενηνεγμένων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PLond.” 1.45.9 (2nd c.BC).)]
II.8 excel, ἀρετῇ τοὺς ἄλλους [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 11.67, compare 2.5; καλλιτεκνίᾳ πάσας γυναῖκας “Stud.Pont.” 3.123 (from Amasia).)]
III intransitive, differ, φυᾷ δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.54)]; ἆρ᾽ οἱ τεκόντες διαφέρουσιν ἢ τροφα; is it one's parents or nurture that make the difference? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 599)]: with genitive, to be different from, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Or.” 251, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.86, etc.; οὐδὲν διοίσεις Χαιρεφῶντος τὴν φύσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 503, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 329d; τὸ δ᾽.. ἀφανίζειν ἱερὰ ἔσθ᾽ ὅτι τοῦ κόπτειν διαφέρε; 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.147; δ. τὰς μορφάς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 497b15)]; δ. εἴς τι, ἔν τινι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.2, 7; παρὰ τὴν Βεβρυκίαν 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Μιθριδάτειος” 1; καθ᾽ ὑπεροχὴν καὶ ἕλλειψιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 486a22; κατὰ τὴν θέσιν [prev. author] “Mete.” 341b24; πρός τι [prev. author] “HA” 505a21; τίνι δ. τὰ ἄρρενα τῶν θηλειῶν.. θεωρείσθω [prev. author] “PA” 684b3)]: with infinitive, μόνῃ τῇ μορφῇ μὴ οὑχὶ πρόβατα εἶναι δ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 15: with _Article_, τρεῖς μόναι ψῆφοι διήνεγκαν τὸ μὴ θανάτου τιμῆσαι)] three votes made the difference (i.e. majority) against capital punishment, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.167)]; also διαφέρει τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ ἔργου makes a difference equal to half the effort expended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.17.)]
III.2 impersonal, διαφέρει it makes a difference, πλεῖστον δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 5.22; βραχὺ δ. τοῖς θανοῦσιν εἰ.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1248, etc.)]; οὐδὲν δ. it makes no odds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 89c, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 193; σμικρὸν οἴει διαφέρει; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 467c: with _dative_ _person_, δ. μοι)] it makes a difference to me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 316b, etc.)]; ἰδίᾳ τι αὐτῷ δ. he has some private interest at stake, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.42)]; εἰ ὑμῖν μή τι δ. if you see no objection, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 187d; τί δέ σοι τοῦτο δ. εἴτε.. εἴτε μ; [prev. author] “R.” 349a, compare “Grg.” 497b, etc.)]: with infinitive, οὐδέ τί οἱ διέφερεν ἀποθανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85)]: with personal construction, πράγματά τινι διαφέροντα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 65)]; to be of importance, πρός or εἴς τι, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.420,428; τῷ ζῴῳ [prev. author] “UP” 9.5.)]
III.3 τὸ δ. the difference, the odds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 45d)]; ={τὸ συμφέρον} [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 31; περὶ μεγίστων δὴ τῶν -όντων βουλεύεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.92, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.5, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 4.12)]; τὰ ἀναγκαιότερα τῷ ταμιείῳ δ. vital interests, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PThead. 15.17 (3rd c.AD))]; τὸ δ. μέρος τῶν ἀποφάσεων the essential part, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1204.11 (3rd c.AD))]; τὰ δ. vital matters, [NT+5th c.BC+ (NT.Rom.2.18; ἐπιστάμενος τὰ δ. παραβαίνειν τολμᾷ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.19 (but τὰ δ.)] also simply, points of difference, in character and the like, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70, etc.).)]
III.4 to be different from a person: generally, in point of excess, surpass, excel him (compare above [Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.8), τινός variant for{-όντως} in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.39)]; τινί in a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.39, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 36.6; ἔν τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.39; εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 35b; κατὰ μέγεθος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 1.10; πρός τι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.181)]: with infinitive, δ. τινὸς μεταβιβάζειν τινά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 517b: sometimes followed by ἤ, πολὺ διέφερεν ἀλέξασθαι ἤ..)] it was far better.. than.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.33, compare “Mem.” 3.11.14, “Vect.” 4.25)] (where it means to differ in point of diminution); also δ. μέγα τι παρὰ τὰς ἄλλας πόλεις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.27.5)]: absolutely, excel, ἐπί τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.12; τάχει 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.53c; οἱ τόποι διαφέρουσι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.14.9; διαφέρον τι πεπραχέναι)]a remarkable achievement, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.39.2.)]
III.5 prevail, ἐπὶ πολὺ διήνεγκε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.83.)]
III.6 quarrel, struggle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 20; οἱ διαφέροντες)]the parties, litigants, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PPar. 69 B10 (3rd c.AD).)]
III.7 come between, intervene, ὁ διαφέρων χρόνος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.94.)]
III.8 belong to, τινί, as property, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.207, “PLond.” 3.940.23 (3rd c.AD))]; of persons, belong to a household, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PStrassb.” 26.5 (4th c.AD))]; οἱ -φέροντες kinsfolk, [Refs (Annuario 4 /5.476 (from Bargylia))]; appertain to, τῇ ὠνῇ [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“BGU” 1062.21 (3rd c.AD))]; τὰ εἰς τοῦτο -φέροντα πράγματα Mitteis [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Chr.” 372v3 (2nd c.AD).)]
IV middle and passive, be at variance, quarrel, τινί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 72, compare 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 32, etc.; περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.173, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 7b)]; δ. ἀλλήλοις differ with, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. passage],compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.42; τινὶ περί τινος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 17.4; πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 18.17, compare 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Oxy.” 1607 “fragment” 1 iii 60, etc.; τὰ πρὸς ἀλλήλους “Supp.epigram” 1.363.5 (Samos, 3rd c.BC))]; ἀμφί τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.17; διενεχθέντας γνώμῃ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.220)]; δ. ὡς.. maintain on the contrary that.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.46)]; οὐ διαφέρομαι, ={οὔ μοι διαφέρει}, [Refs ([prev. author] 9.8)]; μηδὲν διὰ τοῦτο διαφέρου let there be no dispute on this ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.17)]; οἱ -φερόμενοι the litigants, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 685.29 (Crete, 2nd c.BC).)] —Not in _Epic dialect_
future διοίσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 321, διοίσομαι “hymnus ad Mercurium” 255, etc.:)]aorist 1 διήνεγκα, Ionic dialect διήνεικα: aorist 2 διήνεγκον:—carry over or across, δ. ναῦς τὸν Ἰσθμόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.8)]; carry from one to another, διαφέρεις κηρύγματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 382; [τὸ ἤλεκτρον] διαφέρεται εἰς τοὺς Ἕλληνας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 836b6: _metaphorically_, γλῶσσαν διοίσει)] will put the tongue in motion, will speak, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 323 codices)]
2 of Time, δ. τὸν αἰῶνα, τὸν βίον, go through life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.40, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” [10]; νύκτα [prev. author] “Rh.” 600: _absolutely_, ἄπαις διοίσει [prev. work] 982)]:—middle, live, continue, ὑγιηροὶ τἄλλα διαφέρονται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 56)]; σοῦ διοίσεται μόνος will pass his life apart from thee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 511; σκοπούμενος διοίσει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.24 (conjecture Dind. for διέσῃ).)]
3 bear through, bear to the end, σκῆπτρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1195)]; γαστρὸς ὄγκον δ., of a woman, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ion” 15, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.5: hence,)]
4 bear to the end, go through with, πόλεμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.25, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.11)]; but also, bear the burden of war, [Refs ([prev. author] 6.54)]; endure, support, with an adverb, ῥᾷστα γὰρ τὸ σόν τε σὺ κἀγὼ διοίσω τοὐμόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 321; δ. πότμον δάκρυσι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1143 (Lyric poetry))]: absolutely, of patients in disease, δ. ἕως τῶν εἰκοσιτεσσάρων ἡμερέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 40; δ. φθειρόμενος [prev. work] 12 (also ἡ νοῦσος δ. ἐννέα ἔτεα [prev. passage]).)]
II carry different ways, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 570, etc.; δ. ἕκαστα εἰς τὰς χώρας τὰς προσηκούσας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 9.8)]; toss about, ὅπλισμα.. διαφέρων ἐσφενδόνα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 715)]; δ. τὰς κόρας to turn the eyes about, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ba.” 1087. “Or.” 1261 (Lyric poetry))]:—passive, to be drawn apart, disrupted, opposed to συμφέρεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 242e, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 908.2)]; to be tossed about, uncertain in [NT+1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.5; δ. ἐν τῷ Ἀδρίᾳ NT.Act.27.27, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Galba” 26.)]
II.2 δ. τινά spread his fame abroad, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.60; εἰς ἅπαντας τὴν ἐκείνου μνήμην δ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.46)]:—passive, φήμη διηνέχθη [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.163c.)]
II.3 tear asunder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 754)]; disjoin, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1451a34 (_passive_))]: metaphorically, distract, τὰς ψυχὰς φροντίσιν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.133d, compare 97f (_passive_), 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 32.46 (_passive_).)]
II.4 δ. τὴν ψῆφον give one's vote a different way, i.e. against another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.138, etc.)]; but also, give each man his vote, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 49, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.74, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 5.8.)]
II.5 ἐράνους δ., ={διαλύεσθαι}, pay them up, discharge them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 22.)]
II.6 defer, reserve for judgement, τὸν αἴτιον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 68 (Lyric poetry, διασπαράσσει Scholia).)]
II.7 plunder, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.90)]:—passive, τῶν ἀπὸ [τῆς οἰκίας] φορτίων διενηνεγμένων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PLond.” 1.45.9 (2nd c.BC).)]
II.8 excel, ἀρετῇ τοὺς ἄλλους [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 11.67, compare 2.5; καλλιτεκνίᾳ πάσας γυναῖκας “Stud.Pont.” 3.123 (from Amasia).)]
III intransitive, differ, φυᾷ δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.54)]; ἆρ᾽ οἱ τεκόντες διαφέρουσιν ἢ τροφα; is it one's parents or nurture that make the difference? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 599)]: with genitive, to be different from, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Or.” 251, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.86, etc.; οὐδὲν διοίσεις Χαιρεφῶντος τὴν φύσιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 503, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 329d; τὸ δ᾽.. ἀφανίζειν ἱερὰ ἔσθ᾽ ὅτι τοῦ κόπτειν διαφέρε; 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.147; δ. τὰς μορφάς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 497b15)]; δ. εἴς τι, ἔν τινι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.2, 7; παρὰ τὴν Βεβρυκίαν 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Μιθριδάτειος” 1; καθ᾽ ὑπεροχὴν καὶ ἕλλειψιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 486a22; κατὰ τὴν θέσιν [prev. author] “Mete.” 341b24; πρός τι [prev. author] “HA” 505a21; τίνι δ. τὰ ἄρρενα τῶν θηλειῶν.. θεωρείσθω [prev. author] “PA” 684b3)]: with infinitive, μόνῃ τῇ μορφῇ μὴ οὑχὶ πρόβατα εἶναι δ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 15: with _Article_, τρεῖς μόναι ψῆφοι διήνεγκαν τὸ μὴ θανάτου τιμῆσαι)] three votes made the difference (i.e. majority) against capital punishment, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.167)]; also διαφέρει τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ ἔργου makes a difference equal to half the effort expended, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.17.)]
III.2 impersonal, διαφέρει it makes a difference, πλεῖστον δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 5.22; βραχὺ δ. τοῖς θανοῦσιν εἰ.. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1248, etc.)]; οὐδὲν δ. it makes no odds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 89c, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 193; σμικρὸν οἴει διαφέρει; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 467c: with _dative_ _person_, δ. μοι)] it makes a difference to me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 316b, etc.)]; ἰδίᾳ τι αὐτῷ δ. he has some private interest at stake, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.42)]; εἰ ὑμῖν μή τι δ. if you see no objection, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 187d; τί δέ σοι τοῦτο δ. εἴτε.. εἴτε μ; [prev. author] “R.” 349a, compare “Grg.” 497b, etc.)]: with infinitive, οὐδέ τί οἱ διέφερεν ἀποθανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85)]: with personal construction, πράγματά τινι διαφέροντα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 65)]; to be of importance, πρός or εἴς τι, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.420,428; τῷ ζῴῳ [prev. author] “UP” 9.5.)]
III.3 τὸ δ. the difference, the odds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 45d)]; ={τὸ συμφέρον} [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 31; περὶ μεγίστων δὴ τῶν -όντων βουλεύεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.92, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.5, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 4.12)]; τὰ ἀναγκαιότερα τῷ ταμιείῳ δ. vital interests, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PThead. 15.17 (3rd c.AD))]; τὸ δ. μέρος τῶν ἀποφάσεων the essential part, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1204.11 (3rd c.AD))]; τὰ δ. vital matters, [NT+5th c.BC+ (NT.Rom.2.18; ἐπιστάμενος τὰ δ. παραβαίνειν τολμᾷ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.19 (but τὰ δ.)] also simply, points of difference, in character and the like, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70, etc.).)]
III.4 to be different from a person: generally, in point of excess, surpass, excel him (compare above [Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.8), τινός variant for{-όντως} in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.39)]; τινί in a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.39, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 36.6; ἔν τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.39; εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 35b; κατὰ μέγεθος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 1.10; πρός τι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.181)]: with infinitive, δ. τινὸς μεταβιβάζειν τινά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 517b: sometimes followed by ἤ, πολὺ διέφερεν ἀλέξασθαι ἤ..)] it was far better.. than.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.33, compare “Mem.” 3.11.14, “Vect.” 4.25)] (where it means to differ in point of diminution); also δ. μέγα τι παρὰ τὰς ἄλλας πόλεις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.27.5)]: absolutely, excel, ἐπί τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.12; τάχει 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.53c; οἱ τόποι διαφέρουσι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.14.9; διαφέρον τι πεπραχέναι)]a remarkable achievement, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.39.2.)]
III.5 prevail, ἐπὶ πολὺ διήνεγκε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.83.)]
III.6 quarrel, struggle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 20; οἱ διαφέροντες)]the parties, litigants, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PPar. 69 B10 (3rd c.AD).)]
III.7 come between, intervene, ὁ διαφέρων χρόνος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.94.)]
III.8 belong to, τινί, as property, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.207, “PLond.” 3.940.23 (3rd c.AD))]; of persons, belong to a household, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PStrassb.” 26.5 (4th c.AD))]; οἱ -φέροντες kinsfolk, [Refs (Annuario 4 /5.476 (from Bargylia))]; appertain to, τῇ ὠνῇ [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“BGU” 1062.21 (3rd c.AD))]; τὰ εἰς τοῦτο -φέροντα πράγματα Mitteis [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Chr.” 372v3 (2nd c.AD).)]
IV middle and passive, be at variance, quarrel, τινί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 72, compare 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 32, etc.; περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.173, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 7b)]; δ. ἀλλήλοις differ with, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. passage],compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.42; τινὶ περί τινος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 17.4; πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 18.17, compare 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Oxy.” 1607 “fragment” 1 iii 60, etc.; τὰ πρὸς ἀλλήλους “Supp.epigram” 1.363.5 (Samos, 3rd c.BC))]; ἀμφί τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.17; διενεχθέντας γνώμῃ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.220)]; δ. ὡς.. maintain on the contrary that.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.46)]; οὐ διαφέρομαι, ={οὔ μοι διαφέρει}, [Refs ([prev. author] 9.8)]; μηδὲν διὰ τοῦτο διαφέρου let there be no dispute on this ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.17)]; οἱ -φερόμενοι the litigants, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 685.29 (Crete, 2nd c.BC).)] —Not in _Epic dialect_