noun · masculine
dioskouros
Strong’sG1359
the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux
stem dioskour-once 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.
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
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(the Attic dialect form, 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 212), Ionic dialect and later Διόσκουροι, οἱ, the sons of Zeus, i. e. the twins of Leda, Castor and Polydeuces, Refs 6th c.BC+: -κούρων Refs 5th c.BC+; -κόρων Refs 5th c.BC+
II constellation named from them the Twins, Refs 3rd c.BC+
III ={παρωτίδες}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
dioskouroi“Twin Brothers”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 28:11… paracheimazarēnte en ta nēsa Alexandrine, parasēme Dioskouroi.… in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.