to distribute
diadidomi is used for apportioning food, possessions, or spoils among specified recipients.
The attested use concerns the allocation of things to recipients: food to those seated, possessions to the poor or according to need, and spoils after conquest.
Senses in use
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Apportioning items among recipients · dominant
The active forms occur where loaves and fish are apportioned to those seated in John 6:11, spoils are apportioned after an attack in Luke 11:22, and a person is told to sell possessions and give them to the poor in Luke 18:22. In Acts 4:35, the passive form describes what was being apportioned to each person according to need; the APB renders these clauses with “distributed.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB repeatedly uses “distributed,” including the passive wording “it was being distributed” in Acts 4:35. This rendering confirms the clauses' overall presentation rather than isolating every contribution of the Greek form.