Definition

to part, i.e. (literally) to apportion, bestow, share, or (figuratively) to disunite, differ

Etymology

from G3313 (μέρος);

Where the KJV renders it

• deal
• be difference between
• distribute
• divide
• give participle

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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