Meaning
di-vizh'-un: Used in English Versions of the Bible in the following senses:
(1) A separate body of people
(a) of the tribal divisions of Israel (Jos 11:23, Jos 12:7, Jos 18:10);
(b) of sections of a tribe, "the divisions of Reuben" (Jdg 5:15, Jdg 5:16 the King James Version; but the Revised Version (British and American) rightly substitutes "the watercourses of Reuben"; in Job 20:17 the same word is rendered "rivers");
(c) of the (late) organization of priests and Levites into classes or families who ministered in the temple in rotation; translated "courses" generally in the King James Version, and always in the Revised Version (British and American) (1Ch 24:1, 1Ch 26:1, 1Ch 26:12, 1Ch 26:19, Neh 11:36; compare 2Ch 35:5). Much prominence is given by the Chronicler to the 24 classes of priests, singers, and doorkeepers, who served in turns in the temple (compare Luk 1:5, Luk 1:8).
(3) In the New Testament, dissension, disunion, schism (Luk 12:51, Rom 16:17, 1Co 3:3 the King James Version, omitted the Revised Version (British and American); 1Co 1:10, 1Co 11:18, Gal 5:20).
D. Miall Edwards
(2):
di-vizh'-un: Used in English Versions of the Bible in the following senses:
(1) A separate body of people
(a) of the tribal divisions of Israel (Jos 11:23, Jos 12:7, Jos 18:10);
(b) of sections of a tribe, "the divisions of Reuben" (Jdg 5:15, Jdg 5:16 the King James Version; but the Revised Version (British and American) rightly substitutes "the watercourses of Reuben"; in Job 20:17 the same word is rendered "rivers");
(c) of the (late) organization of priests and Levites into classes or families who ministered in the temple in rotation; translated "courses" generally in the King James Version, and always in the Revised Version (British and American) (1Ch 24:1, 1Ch 26:1, 1Ch 26:12, 1Ch 26:19, Neh 11:36; compare 2Ch 35:5). Much prominence is given by the Chronicler to the 24 classes of priests, singers, and doorkeepers, who served in turns in the temple (compare Luk 1:5, Luk 1:8).
(3) In the New Testament, dissension, disunion, schism (Luk 12:51, Rom 16:17, 1Co 3:3 the King James Version, omitted the Revised Version (British and American); 1Co 1:10, 1Co 11:18, Gal 5:20).
D. Miall Edwards
