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Strong’s G1308 · Greek

διαφέρω

diaphérō · dee-af-er'-o

Origin from διά (G1223) and φέρω (G5342);

Meaning to bear through, i.e. (literally) transport; usually to bear apart, i.e. (objectively) to toss about (figuratively, report); subjectively, to "differ", or (by implication) surpass

In the King James Version be better, carry, differ from, drive up and down, be (more) excellent, make matter, publish, be of more value.

In 13 verses of the King James Version

  1. 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?
  2. Matthew 10:31Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
  3. Matthew 12:12How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
  4. Mark 11:16And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
  5. Luke 12:7But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
  6. 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?
  7. Acts 13:49And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
  8. 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;
  9. Romans 2:18And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
  10. 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.
  11. 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:
  12. 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;
  13. Philippians 1:10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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