The meaning of Division in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
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 (Joshua 11:23; Joshua 12:7; Joshua 18:10); (b) of sections of a tribe, "the divisions of Reuben" (Judges 5:15-16 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) (I Chronicles 24:1; I Chronicles 26:1, I Chronicles 26:12, I Chronicles 26:19; Nehemiah 11:36; compare II Chronicles 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 Luke 1:5, Luke 1:8).
(3) In the New Testament, dissension, disunion, schism (Luke 12:51; Romans 16:17; I Corinthians 3:3 the King James Version, omitted the Revised Version (British and American); I Corinthians 1:10; I Corinthians 11:18; Galatians 5:20).
D. Miall Edwards
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