Δίδυμος
Dídymos · G1324 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Person
- Thomasfirst named in Matthew 10:312 verses
Meanings
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Didymus meaning Twin
The Greek name of the apostle Thomas
ExamplesJohn 11:16 Therefore Thomas, who was called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, so that we may die with Him!”
John 20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
John 21:2 Simon Peter, Thomas who was called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- תָּאוֹם tâʼôwm · H8380 · twins, matching objects, coupled objects
- Hebrew word for 'twin,' the direct translation equivalent of Greek Δίδυμος in its common-noun sense (e.g., Song of Solomon 4:5, 7:3 referring to twin fawns/roes).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Didymus meaning Twin93.95
- The proper name given as a translation of Thomas, as of Thomas called Didymus proposing to go and die with Jesus in John 11:16, absent when Jesus first appeared to the disciples in John 20:24, and listed among those fishing at the Sea of Tiberias in John 21:2.
Word family 21 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon διδυμη, διδυμον and Δίδυμος, Διδυμον, twofold, twain, (double, Homer, Odyssey 19, 227; as…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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