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Strong's G4164 ποικίλος (poikilos)

Poikilos means “divers” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4164 — mutsaq (“narrowness”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4164
Language Greek
Linked Usages 34
Books 16

Strong's G4164 Quick Answer

Strong's G4164 ποικίλος (poikilos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. poikilos (poy-kee'-los) adj. 1. motley, i.e. various in character [of uncertain derivation] It has 34 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include divers and manifold. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
poikilos (poy-kee'-los) adj. 1. motley, i.e. various in character [of uncertain derivation]
Usage
34 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
divers and manifold

Meaning and Definition

poikilos (poy-kee'-los) adj. 1. motley, i.e. various in character [of uncertain derivation] KJV: divers, manifold

Original Word
ποικίλος
Transliteration
poikilos
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4164. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

various

Usage: ποικίλος, -η, -ον [in LXX for נָקֹד, רִקְמָה, etc. ;] many-coloured, variegated. Metaphorical, various, manifold: Mat.4:24, Mrk.1:34, Luk.4:40, 2Ti.3:6, Tit.3:3, Heb.2:4 13:9, Jas.1:2, 1Pe.1:6 4:10.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4164 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render poikilos, 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.

divers Matthew 4:24 manifold 1 Peter 1:6

How Strong's G4164 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 18 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4164 (ποικίλος) appears 25 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4164 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4164 in the New Testament

10 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 4:24 KJV

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

Mark 1:34 KJV

And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.

Luke 4:40 KJV

Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

Strong's G4164 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

18 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 30:37 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob took to himself green rods of storax tree and walnut and plane tree; and Jacob peeled in them white stripes; and as he drew off the green, the white stripe which he had made appeared alternate on the rods.

Genesis 30:39 Septuagint / Brenton

So the cattle conceived at the rods, and the cattle brought forth young speckled, and streaked and spotted with ash-colored spots.

Genesis 30:40 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob separated the lambs, and set before the sheep a speckled ram, and every variegated one among the lambs, and he separated flocks for himself alone, and did not mingle them with the sheep of Laban.

Strong's G4164 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 15:21 Septuagint / Brenton

Maccabeus seeing the coming of the multitude, and the diverse preparations of armor, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretched out his hands toward heaven, and called upon the Lord that worketh wonders, knowing that victory cometh not by arms, but even as it seemeth good to him, he giveth it to such as are worthy:

3 Maccabees 1:21 Septuagint / Brenton

Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king.

3 Maccabees 2:6 Septuagint / Brenton

Thou didst make known thy power when thou causedst the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of thy people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.

Usage Excerpts

First 34 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4164.

Genesis 30:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob took to himself green rods of storax tree and walnut and plane tree; and Jacob peeled in them white stripes; and as he drew off the green, the white stripe which he had made appeared alternate on the rods.
Genesis 30:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the cattle conceived at the rods, and the cattle brought forth young speckled, and streaked and spotted with ash-colored spots.
Genesis 30:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob separated the lambs, and set before the sheep a speckled ram, and every variegated one among the lambs, and he separated flocks for himself alone, and did not mingle them with the sheep of Laban.
Genesis 31:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If he should say thus, The speckled shall be thy reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be thy reward, then would all the cattle bear white.
Genesis 31:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-colored spots.
Genesis 31:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Look up with thine eyes, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-colored spots; for I have seen all things that Laban does to thee.
Genesis 37:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colors.
Genesis 37:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his many-colored coat that was upon him.
Genesis 37:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they sent the coat of many colors; and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found; know if it be thy son’s coat or no.
Joshua 7:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I saw in the spoil an embroidered mantle, and two hundred didrachmas of silver, and one golden wedge of fifty didrachmas, and I desired them and took them; and, behold, they are hidden in my tent, and the silver is hidden under them.
1 Chronicles 29:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have prepared according to all my might for the house of my God gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, onyx stones, and costly and variegated stones for setting, and every precious stone, and much parian marble.
Ezekiel 16:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I clothed thee with embroidered garments, and clothed thee beneath with purple, and girded thee with fine linen, and clothed thee with silk,
Ezekiel 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So thou wast adorned with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and variegated work: thou didst eat fine flour, and oil, and honey, and didst become extremely beautiful.
Ezekiel 16:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst take thy variegated apparel and didst clothe them, and thou didst set before them mine oil and mine incense.
Ezekiel 26:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over thee.
Zechariah 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I saw by night, and behold a man mounted on a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains; and behind him were red horses, and gray, and piebald, and white.
Zechariah 6:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot piebald and ash-colored horses.
Zechariah 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for the chariot in which were the black horses, they went out to the land of the north; and the white went out after them; and the piebald went out to the land of the south.
Matthew 4:24 New Testament, KJV
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Mark 1:34 New Testament, KJV
And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.
Luke 4:40 New Testament, KJV
Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
2 Timothy 3:6 New Testament, KJV
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
Titus 3:3 New Testament, KJV
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Hebrews 2:4 New Testament, KJV
God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Hebrews 13:9 New Testament, KJV
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
James 1:2 New Testament, KJV
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
1 Peter 1:6 New Testament, KJV
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
1 Peter 4:10 New Testament, KJV
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
2 Maccabees 15:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Maccabeus seeing the coming of the multitude, and the diverse preparations of armor, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretched out his hands toward heaven, and called upon the Lord that worketh wonders, knowing that victory cometh not by arms, but even as it seemeth good to him, he giveth it to such as are worthy:
3 Maccabees 1:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king.
3 Maccabees 2:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou didst make known thy power when thou causedst the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of thy people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.
4 Maccabees 7:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.
4 Maccabees 17:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of thy story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even unto death.
4 Maccabees 18:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4164, grouped by book.

Genesis 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
2 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
Titus 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 2 usages, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 2 usages, New Testament
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4164 FAQ

What does poikilos (ποικίλος) mean?

Poikilos (Strong's G4164) is a Greek word most simply glossed "divers". poikilos (poy-kee'-los) adj. 1. motley, i.e. various in character [of uncertain derivation]

How many times is poikilos (ποικίλος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 34 linked usages for Strong's G4164 across 16 books.

Where can I study poikilos (ποικίλος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4164 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate poikilos (ποικίλος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as divers and manifold. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4164 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 18 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4164, with linked reader references where each row is available.