divide

DIVIDE, v.t. [L., to part. See the latter words.]

1. To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces.

Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings 3.

2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit. A wall divides two houses. The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres.

Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters. Genesis 1.

3. To make partition of, among a number.

Ye shall divide the land by lot. Numbers 33.

4. To open; to cleave.

Thou dist divide the sea. Nehemiah 9.

5. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.

There shall be five in one house divided, three against two--Luke 12.

6. To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.

And he divided to them his living. Luke 15.

7. To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.

8. To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.DIVIDE, v.i.

1. To part; to open; to cleave.

2. To break friendship; as, brothers divide.

3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.

The emperors sat, voted and divided with their equals.

SCRIPTURES:

Exodus 14:16

• Old Testament

But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. 

Job 27:17

• Old Testament

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. 

Luke 12:13

• New Testament

¶And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. 

(  14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of ^acovetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.)

Psalms 74:13

• Old Testament

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 

Deuteronomy 19:3

• Old Testament

Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 

Psalms 108:7

• Old Testament

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 

Moses 2:6

• Pearl of Great Price

And again, I, God, said: Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and it was so, even as I spake; and I said: Let it divide the waters from the waters; and it was done; 

Moses 2:14

• Pearl of Great Price

And I, God, said: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years;

QUOTES:

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Rene Descartes

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

Colin Farrell

PERSONAL DEFINITION:

As I was researching this word Divide, I kept finding a reoccurring theme that Division or separation can bring unity. I thought to myself- Wait! That doesn't make any sense.
But it does...
Let's take two people to represent the context of the word divide. Those two people are you, and someone else. Now, if you are divided in opinion, a choice springs up. You can choose to become unified by lovingly receiving both viewpoints, or you can become disordered and split by selfishly arguing.

So the separateness can bring unity if it is acted upon with love.

The law of nature revolves around becoming whole. We want to become whole. (If we are in line with Nature- or God's law). But it often takes Division to accomplish that wholeness or unity.

But what if a house divided against itself cannot stand?
I think the key word in the sentence before is itself. When we aren't aligned with our own true purpose, we can't have unity with others. And the only way to be wholly aligned with our own true purpose is through the atonement. Even then, we need a separate being to make us whole.
Division equals Unity.
Here are some examples:
God had to separate us from Him, by sending us to this earth, so that we could be in a state where we could progress and return to Him being more complete and having more knowledge.

It takes male and female to create a human being.

The human body is made up of separate pairs. (Two eyes, ears, arms, legs, feet)

There are a lot of examples in nature where you need divided or separate sources to achieve a goal or unity.