δίς
dís · G1364 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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twice
Two occurrences
ExamplesMark 14:30 And Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, that this very night, before a rooster crows twice, you yourself will deny Me three times.”
Mark 14:72 And immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” And he hurried on and began to weep.
Luke 18:12 ‘I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’
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more than once, several times
(An idiom, literally: once and twice) An indefinite low number, but more than once
ExamplesPhilippians 4:16 for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.
1 Thessalonians 2:18 For we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, more than once—and Satan hindered us.
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completely dead
(An idiom, literally: dying twice) The state of being completely dead
ExamplesJude 1:12 These are the ones who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, like shepherds caring only for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;
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.
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.
In the other Testament 1 word
- פַּעַם paʻam · H6471 · foot, footstep, hoofbeat
- Greek δίς specifically denotes 'twice' (two occurrences), while Hebrew פַּעַם has broader semantic range including 'time, occurrence, step, once' and functions as a general occurrence-counting term that requires contextual numeral specification (e.g., שְׁתֵּי פְעָמִים 'two times') to express the same 'twice' meaning δίς lexicalizes inherently.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Completely dead23.123
- Used figuratively of an utterly barren, fruitless spiritual state, as of autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted in Jude 1:12.
- Twice60.69
- Used of an action or occurrence happening on two occasions, as of the rooster crowing twice before Peter's three denials in Mark 14:30 and 14:72, and the Pharisee's boast of fasting twice a week in Luke 18:12.
- More than once, several times60.70
- Used of a repeated occurrence beyond a single instance, as of the Thessalonians receiving help more than once for Paul's needs in Philippians 4:16, and Paul's own repeated desire to visit them, hindered by Satan, in 1 Thessalonians 2:18.
Word family 21 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb (Curtius, § 277; from Homer down), twice: Mk 14:30, Mk 14:72; δίς τοῦ σαββάτου…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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