Friday, October 24, 2025

Word of the Day: Divers

An archaic predecessor of "different" or "diverse", used throughout the King James Bible, such as in Matthew 24:7:

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.”

In this context, "different places" would be the modern equivalent. 

The word is beleieved to derive from the Latin diversus, meaning "turned different ways". 


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