Words the Bible translates as part
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- merosμέροςa part of a whole: a piece, share, region, or side, as set against the entirety
- klērosκλῆροςa lot: a small marked object thrown or drawn to settle a question, so that the outcome is nobody's choice
+1 more meaning
- the share that falls to a person: the place, portion, or inheritance assigned to someone rather than earned or chosen
- merisμερίςpartnot studied yet
- melosμέλοςa member of a body: a limb or organ of a physical body, and, by extension, a person who belongs to a community pictured as one living body.
- diamerizōδιαμερίζωto break a whole into parts that go separate ways: to share something out among several people, or to leave a group split into opposing sides
- paradפָּרַדto separate, divide, or part: to draw a boundary between things once joined, so that they stand apart.
- ḥatsahחָצָהto divide something into parts, especially into two, and so to reach a halfway point
- parasפָּרַסto break in two: to part a whole thing into pieces
- netaḥנֵתַחa piece of a butchered animal: one of the sections a carcass is cut into at the joints
- beterבֶּתֶרa severed half of an animal, one of a matching pair laid out so people making a covenant could pass between the pieces under a binding oath
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