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δύο

dýo · G1417 · Greek · 135 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. two

    Cardinal number, where there are two instances of a countable entity

    Examples

    Matthew 4:18 Now as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

    Matthew 4:21 Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets; and He called them.

    Matthew 5:41 “Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 3 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

5 occurrences in 3 groups

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 6 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

12 occurrences in 12 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 6 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

7 occurrences in 4 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 5 groups

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
שְׁנַיִם shᵉnayim · H8147 · two
Greek δύο (dýo, G1417) serves as the standard translation equivalent of Hebrew שְׁנַיִם (shᵉnayim, H8147), both denoting the cardinal number "two" with parallel semantic range including paired/dual concepts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Two60.11
Used of a basic cardinal quantity, as of no one being able to serve two masters in Matthew 6:24, and Jesus sending His disciples out two by two in Mark 6:7.
Word family 22 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

δύοdýo · G1417δώδεκα dṓdeka · G1427 · twelve, the twelve disciples · 75×διακόσιοι diakósioi · G1250 · two hundred · 8×δίς dís · G1364 · twice, more than once, several times · 6×διπλοῦς diploûs · G1362 · twice as much, double · 4×Δίδυμος Dídymos · G1324 · double, i.e. twin; Didymus, a Christian · 3×δίστομος dístomos · G1366 · double-edged · 3×δίδραχμον dídrachmon · G1323 · two-drachma piece, temple tax · 2×διετία dietía · G1333 · a two-year period · 2×διστάζω distázō · G1365 · to doubt, to be uncertain about, doubt · 2×διχοστασία dichostasía · G1370 · division, discord · 2×διχοτομέω dichotoméō · G1371 · to cut in two, to punish severely, to punish · 2×δίψυχος dípsychos · G1374 · doubleminded, doubting, doubter · 2×διετής dietḗs · G1332 · two years old · 1×διθάλασσος dithálassos · G1337 · cross-currents, sandbar, reef · 1×δίλογος dílogos · G1351 · double-tongued, two-faced, hypocritical · 1×διπλόω diplóō · G1363 · to double, to cause twice as much as · 1×δισχίλιοι dischílioi · G1367 · two thousand · 1×διχάζω dicházō · G1369 · to incite to revolt, to cause to rebel · 1×δωδέκατος dōdékatos · G1428 · twelfth · 1×δωδεκάφυλον dōdekáphylon · G1429 · the twelve tribes, the people of Israel · 1×

Also from the root δύο

δεκαδύο dekadýo · G1177 · two and ten, i.e. twelve · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon genitive indeclinable δύο (as in Epic, and occasionally in Herodotus, Thucydides,…
genitive indeclinable δύο (as in Epic, and occasionally in Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, others for δυοιν, more common in Attic (see Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 289f)); dative δυσί, δυσίν (δυσί in Mt 6:24; Lk 16:13; Acts 21:33 (Tr δυσίν), δυσίν in Mt 22:40; Mk 16:12; Lk 12:52 (R G δυσί; Acts 12:6 (R G L δυσί); Heb 10:28; Rev 11:3 (R G δυσί); cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 98; WHs Appendix, p. 147) — a form not found in the older and better writings, met with in Hippocrates, Aristotle, Theophrastus, frequent from Polybius on, for the Attic δυοιν); accusative δύο (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 210; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. i., p. 276f; Winers Grammar, § 9, 2 b.; Passow, i., p. 729); two: absolutely, οὐκ ἔτι εἰσί δύο, ἀλλά σάρξ μία, Mt 19:6; Mk 10:8; δύο ἤ τρεῖς, Mt 18:20; 1 Cor 14:29; τρεῖς ἐπί δυσί καί δύο ἐπί τρισί, Lk 12:52; ἀνά and κατά δύο, two by two (Winers Grammar, 398 (372); 401 (374); Buttmann, 30 (26)), Lk 9:3 (WH omits; Tr brackets ἀνά); (WH ἀνά δύο (δύο); cf. Acta Philip. § 36, Tdf. edition, p. 92); Jn 2:6 (apiece); 1 Cor 14:27; δύο δύο, two and two, Mk 6:7 (so, after the Hebrew, in Gen 6:19, Gen 6:20; but the phrase is not altogether foreign even to the Greek poets, as Aesehyl. Pers. 981 μύρια μύρια for κατά μυριάδας, cf. Winer's Grammar, 249 (234) (cf. 39 (38))); neuter εἰς δύο into two parts, Mt 27:51; Mk 15:38; with the genitive δύο τῶν μαθητῶν (αὐτοῦ), Mk 11:1; Mk 14:13; Lk 19:29; (Mt 11:2 R G); τῶν οἰκετῶν, Acts 10:7. δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν, Lk 24:13 (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) 158 (138); Winer's 203 (191)). with a noun or pronoun: δύο δαιμονιζόμενοι, Mt 8:28. δύο μάχαιραι, Lk 22:38; ἐπί στόματος δύο μαρτύρων, Mt 18:16; 2 Cor 13:1; δυσί κυρίοις, Mt 6:24; Lk 16:13; εἶδε δύο ἀδελφούς, Mt 4:18; preceded by the article, οἱ δύο, the two, the twain: Mt 19:5; Mk 10:8; 1 Cor 6:16; Eph 5:31; τούς δύο, Eph 2:15; αἱ (Rec. only) δύο διαθῆκαι, Gal 4:24; οὗτοι (Lachmann brackets οὗτοι) οἱ δύο υἱοί μου, Mt 20:21; περί τῶν δύο ἀδελφῶν, Mt 20:24; ἐν ταύταις ταῖς δυσίν ἐντολαῖς, Mt 22:40; τούς δύο ἰχθύας, Mt 14:19; Mk 6:41; Lk 9:16; δύο δηνάρια, Lk 10:35.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
One, Two, Three, Etc. [Cardinals]135 occurrences

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

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