Lexical Summary
polutropós: In many ways, in various manners
Original Word: πολυτρόπως
Part of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: polutropós
Pronunciation: po-loo-tro-pos'
Phonetic Spelling: (pol-oot-rop'-oce)
KJV: in divers manners
NASB: many ways
Word Origin: [adverb from a compound of G4183 (πολύς - many) and G5158 (τρόπος - way)]
1. in many ways, i.e. variously as to method or form
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
in many ways
Adverb from a compound of polus and tropos; in many ways, i.e. Variously as to method or form -- in divers manners.
see GREEK polus
see GREEK tropos
HELPS Word-studies
4187 polytrópōs (an adverb, derived from 4183 /polýs, "many in number" and 5158 /trópos, "way, manner") – properly, many manners (avenues); (figuratively) the multitudinous (infinite) number of ways God shares His Word to (in) people. This includes revealing Himself in the OT when speaking through (in) the Hebrew prophets in dreams, visions, etc. It is used only in Heb 1:1.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originadverb from a comp. of
polus and
troposDefinitionin many ways
NASB Translationmany ways (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4187: πολυτρόπωςπολυτρόπως (from
πολυτρόπος, in use in various senses from
Homer down), adverb,
in many manners:
Hebrews 1:1 ((
Philo de incor. mund. § 24)); see
πολυμερῶς.