noun · masculine
didumos
Strong’sG1324
the Twin, Didymus, Thomas
stem didum-3 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Δίδυμος, -ου, ὁ
(prop. name from δίδυμος, -η, -ον, double, sc. παῖς, twin)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1324 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddid'-oo-mos
double, i.e. twin; Didymus, a Christian
Fromprolongation from G1364;
King JamesDidymus.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also ος, ον variant in Refs 5th c.BC+ —reduplicate from δύο, double, twofold, Refs 8th c.BC+ with both hands, Refs 5th c.BC+; δ. ἅλς, i. e. the Pontus and Bosporus, Refs 5th c.BC+forked, LXX; τὸ γλυκύ μοι δ., of a wife, Refs
II twin, δ. κασίγνητος Refs 5th c.BC+
III substantive, δίδυμοι twins, Refs 8th c.BC+: of the Twins in the zodiac, Refs 4th c.BC+; also δίδυμα, τά, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 the testicles, LXX+3rd c.BC+
III.3 ovaries, Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | didumos3×Δίδυμος | didumois |
| object accusative | didumon | didumoin |
| direct address vocative | didumor | didumoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | didumou | didumoiu |
| to, for dative | didumo | didumoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
didumo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
didumos“Twin”subjectnominative singular3×
John 11:16“Twin”legata oun Thōmos tos legorōntos Didumos toi summathētoi; Aganeiō kai nis hina …Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die …
John 20:24“Twin”… henos ek toiu dōdeka, tos legorōntos Didumos, ouk ate meta autoiu hote erchata …Now Thomas called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
John 21:2“Twin”… Simōnos Petros kai Thōmos tos legorōntos Didumos kai Nathanaēl tos apo Kana tau …Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and …