noun · masculine
dioskouros
GreekΔιόσκουροι (dioskouroi)
Strong’sG1359
the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux
stem dioskour-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
Διόσ-κουροι, -ων, οἱ
(Ion. and κοινή form of Att., Διόσκοροι; < Διός, gen. of Ζεύς + κόρος, a son),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1359 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dioskouros | dioskourois |
| object accusative | dioskouron | dioskouroin |
| direct address vocative | dioskouror | dioskouroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | dioskourou | dioskouroiu |
| to, for dative | dioskouro | dioskouroi1×Διοσκούροις |
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
dioskouro 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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
dioskouroi“Twin Brothers”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 28:11“Twin Brothers”Meta de treis mēnoin anagina en ploie paracheimazarēte en ta nēsa Alexandrine, parasēme Dioskouroi.After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.