Lexical Summary
apodiorizó: To separate, to divide, to set apart
Original Word: ἀποδιορίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: apodiorizó
Pronunciation: ah-po-dee-or-ID-zo
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-od-ee-or-id'-zo)
KJV: separate
NASB: cause divisions
Word Origin: [from G575 (ἀπό - since) and a compound of G223 (Ἀλέξανδρος - Alexander) and G3724 (ὁρίζω - determined)]
1. to disjoin (by a boundary)
2. (figuratively) a party
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
to cause divisions
From apo and a compound of Alexandros and horizo; to disjoin (by a boundary, figuratively, a party) -- separate.
see GREEK apo
see GREEK Alexandros
see GREEK horizo
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
apo and diorizó (to divide by limits, separate)
Definitionto mark off
NASB Translationcause divisions (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 592: ἀποδιορίζωἀποδιορίζω; (
διορίζω, and this from
ὅρος a limit); by drawing boundaries
to disjoin, part, separate from another:
Jude 1:19 (
οἱ ἀποδιορίζοντες ἑαυτούς those who by their wickedness separate themselves from the living fellowship of Christians; if
ἑαυτούς is dropped, with
Rec.st G L T Tr WH, the rendering is
making divisions or separations). (
Aristotle, pol. 4, 4, 13 (p. 1290b, 25).)