Diaphoros means “varying” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1313 — basam (“spice”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1313 διάφορος (diaphoros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. diaphoros (dee-af'-or-os) adj. 1. varying 2. also surpassing It has 18 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include differing, more, also, and divers. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
diaphoros (dee-af'-or-os) adj. 1. varying 2. also surpassing [from G1308] KJV: differing, divers, more excellent Root(s): G1308
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Usage: διά-φορος, -ον (διαφέρω), [in LXX for שְׁנָא (Dan.7:7, 19); also as in Polyb., iv, 188, al., Τὸ δ., τὰ δ., money: Sir.27:1 42:5, 2Ma.3:6 ;] __1. different: Rom.12:6, Heb.9:10. __2. excellent: compar., -ώτερος, Heb.1:4 8:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render diaphoros, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1313 (διάφορος) appears 14 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Ye shall observe my law: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with one of a different kind, and thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed; and thou shalt not put upon thyself a mingled garment woven of two materials.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatsoever seed thou mayest sow, with the fruit of thy vineyard.
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards: but she doeth the things that are just, and refraineth from all unjust and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works.
Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company;
And the king took many gifts, and bestowed thereof on those whom he would gratify.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1313.
Ye shall observe my law: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with one of a different kind, and thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed; and thou shalt not put upon thyself a mingled garment woven of two materials.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatsoever seed thou mayest sow, with the fruit of thy vineyard.
Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
After this one I looked, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
Then I inquired carefully concerning the fourth beast; for it differed from every other beast, exceeding dreadful: its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet:
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards: but she doeth the things that are just, and refraineth from all unjust and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works.
Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company;
And the king took many gifts, and bestowed thereof on those whom he would gratify.
and told him that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of infinite sums of money, so that the multitude of their riches, which did not pertain to the account of the sacrifices, was innumerable, and that it was possible to bring all into the king’s hand.
for unto him appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called before the king.
Change not a friend for any good by no means; Neither a faithful brother for the gold of Ophir.
Many have sinned for a small matter; And he that seeketh for abundance will turn his eyes away.
Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: And the heart fancieth, as a woman’s heart in travail.
And of merchants’ indifferent selling; Of much correction of children; And to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1313, grouped by book.
Diaphoros (Strong's G1313) is a Greek word most simply glossed "varying". diaphoros (dee-af'-or-os) adj. 1. varying 2. also surpassing
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G1313 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1313 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as differing, more, also, and divers. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1313, with linked reader references where each row is available.