polutropōs

Strong’sG4187

in many ways

stem polutropō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** πολυτρόπως,

adv.

(< πολύτροπος, 1. much turning. 2. manifold), [in LXX: IV Mac 3:21 A*;]

in many ways or manners: He 1:1 (Philo).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4187 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpol-oot-rop'-oce

in many ways, i.e. variously as to method or form

Fromadverb from a compound of G4183 and G5158;

King Jamesin divers manners.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

Included with: πολύ-τροπος, ον,
(τρέπω) much-turned, i.e. much-travelled, much-wandering, epithet of Odysseus, Refs 8th c.BC+
II turning many ways: metaphorically, shifty, versatile, wily, of Hermes, Refs 5th c.BC+; and in this sense Plato took the word as applied to Odysseus, Refs; τὸ π. τῆς γνώμης their versatility of mind, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ π., of Alcibiades, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 fickle, ὅμιλος Refs 1st c.AD+
II.3 of diseases, changeful, complicated, Refs 1st c.AD+
III various, manifold, ξυμφοραί Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπιθυμίαι, ἐθισμοὶ τῶν λέξεων, Refs 4th c.BC+. adverb -πως in many manners, NT+4th c.BC+: comparative, -ωτέρως καὶ ποικιλωτέρως Refs 4th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

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in many ways1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

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polutropōs1×

Hebrews 1:1“in many ways”Polumerōs kai polutropōs palai tos theos lalarantos toi patroi …… past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the …