Verb diachōrizō (to separate, divide, distinguish, depart) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more litteral meaning)


Luke

9: 33Just as they were departing (diachōrizō), Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" - not knowing what he said.

Genesis (LXX)

1: 4And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided (diachōrizō) between the light and the darkness.
1: 6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division (diachōrizō) between water and water, and it was so.
1: 7And God made the firmament, and God divided (diachōrizō) between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament.
1: 14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to divide (diachōrizō) between day and night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.
1: 18and to regulate day and night, and to divide (diachōrizō) between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
13: 9Lo! is not the whole land before thee? Separate (diachōrizō) thyself from me; if thou goest to the left, I will go to the right, and if thou goest to the right, I will go to the left.
13: 11And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated (diachōrizō) each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.
13: 14And God said to Abram after Lot was separated (diachōrizō) from him, Look up with thine eyes, and behold from the place where thou now art northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;
30: 32Let all thy sheep pass by to-day, and separate (diachōrizō) thence every grey sheep among the rams, and every one that is speckled and spotted among the goats-this shall be my reward.
30: 40And Jacob ordered the lambs, and set before the sheep a speckled ram, and every variegated one among the lambs, and he separated (diachōrizō) flocks for himself alone, and did not mingle them with the sheep of Laban.

Numbers (LXX)

32: 12save Caleb the son of Jephonne, who was separated (diachōrizō), and Joshua the son of Naue, for they closely followed after the Lord.

2 Samuel (LXX: 2 Kings)

1: 23Saul and Jonathan, the beloved and the beautiful, were not divided (diachōrizō): comely were they in their life, and in their death they were not divided (diachōrizō): they were swifter than eagles, and they were stronger than lions.

2 Chronicles (LXX)

25: 10And Amasias separated (diachōrizō) from the army that came to him from Ephraim, that they might go away to their place; and they were very angry with Juda, and they returned to their place with great wrath.

Ezekiel (LXX)

34: 12As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and cloud, in the midst of the sheep that are separated (diachōrizō): so will I seek out my sheep, and will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness.

Daniel (LXX: Theodotion's reading)

13: 13And the one said to the other, Let us now go home: for it is dinner time. So when they were gone out, they separated (diachōrizō) from each other,
13: 51Then said Daniel unto them, Separate (diachōrizō) them far from another, and I will examine them.
13: 52So when they were separated (diachōrizō) one from another, he called one of them, and said unto him, O thou that art waxen old in wickedness, now thy sins which thou hast committed aforetime are come to light:

Proverbs (LXX)

16: 28A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates (diachōrizō) friends.

Sirach (LXX)

6: 13Separate (diachōrizō) thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy friends.
12: 9In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart (diachōrizō).
33: 8By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished (diachōrizō): and he altered seasons and feasts.
33: 11In much knowledge the Lord hath divided (diachōrizō) them, and made their ways diverse.

1 Maccabees (LXX)

12: 36and making the walls of Jerusalem higher, and raising a great mount between the tower and the city, for to separate (diachōrizō) it from the city, that so it might be alone, that men might neither sell nor buy in it.