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διδαχαῖς ποικίλαις καὶ ξέναις

Instruction (the act or the matter) · various · foreign

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διδαχή G1322 instruction (the act or the matter)
Pronunciation didachḗ
Teaching as both the act of instructing and the content being taught; often emphasizes doctrinal content.
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ποικίλος G4164 various
Pronunciation poikílos
Variety of kinds or types, emphasizing diverse manifestations of the same category rather than mere difference
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ξένος G3581 foreign
Pronunciation xénos
Foreigner or social outsider; emphasizes alienation from community belonging rather than mere geographic distance.
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What does διδαχαῖς ποικίλαις καὶ ξέναις (didachais poikilais kai xenais) mean in the Bible?

διδαχή · ποικίλος · ξένος is a Greek word meaning "varied and foreign teachings".

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Meaning

varied and foreign teachings
Grammatical Forms

How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.

Nominative · Singular · Feminine Mark 1:27 · John 7:16 · Acts 17:19 3×
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Matt 16:12 · John 7:17 · John 18:19 · Acts 5:28 · Rom 6:17 5×
Dative · Singular · Feminine Matt 7:28 · Matt 22:33 · Mark 1:22 · Mark 4:2 · Mark 11:18 · Mark 12:38 · Luke 4:32 · Acts 2:42 · Acts 13:12 · 1 Cor 14:6 · 2 Tim 4:2 · 2 John 1:9 13×
Dative · Plural · Feminine Heb 13:9 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Rom 16:17 · 1 Cor 14:26 · Titus 1:9 · Heb 6:2 · 2 John 1:10 · Rev 2:14 · Rev 2:15 · Rev 2:24 8×
30 total occurrences across all forms in the biblical text Morphology: MorphGNT SBLGNT — CC BY-SA 3.0
Word Pictures (Robertson)

A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) discusses this term in the following chapters. Open any chapter and go to the Word Pictures tab to read his verse-by-verse commentary.

Acts 13 — The Spirit Sends the Mission and the Word Turns to the Gentiles Acts 2 — The Spirit Comes and Christ Is Proclaimed John 18 — The Arrested King: Betrayal, Sovereign Surrender, Denial, Trial, and the Kingdom Not of This World John 7 — The Feast, the Divided Crowd, and the Living Water of Jesus Matthew 16 — The Confession of the Christ, the Church Christ Builds, and the Cross-Shaped Way of Discipleship Matthew 25 — Readiness, Stewardship, and the Final Judgment of the Son of Man Romans 16 — Gospel Partnership, Holy Greeting, False-Teacher Warning, and Doxology to the God Who Establishes Romans 6 — Dead to Sin and Alive to God in Christ Jesus

A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) — public domain

Sources

MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0

Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0

STEPBible Data — CC BY 4.0

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