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Lexicon :: Strong's G1417 - dyo

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δύο
Transliteration
dyo (Key)
Pronunciation
doo'-o
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Part of Speech
indeclinable noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary numeral
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Strong’s Definitions

δύο dýo, doo'-o; a primary numeral; "two":—both, twain, two.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 135x

The KJV translates Strong's G1417 in the following manner: two (122x), twain (10x), both (2x), two and two (with G303) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 135x
The KJV translates Strong's G1417 in the following manner: two (122x), twain (10x), both (2x), two and two (with G303) (1x).

  1. the two, the twain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
δύο dýo, doo'-o; a primary numeral; "two":—both, twain, two.
STRONGS G1417:
δύο, genitive indeclinable δύο (as in Epic, and occasionally in Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, others for δυοῖν, more common in Attic [see Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 289f]); dative δυσί, δυσίν ([-σί in Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; Acts 21:33 (Tr -σίν), -σίν in Matthew 22:40; Mark 16:12; Luke 12:52 (R G -σί; Acts 12:6 (R G L -σί); Hebrews 10:28; Revelation 11:3 (R G -σί); 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 δυοῖν); accusative δύο (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 210; Bttm. Ausf. Spr. i., p. 276f; Winers Grammar, § 9, 2 b.; Passow, i., p. 729); two: absolutely, οὐκ ἔτι εἰσὶ δύο, ἀλλὰ σὰρξ μία, Matthew 19:6; Mark 10:8; δύο ἣ τρεῖς, Matthew 18:20; 1 Corinthians 14:29; τρεῖς ἐπὶ δυσὶ κ. δύο ἐπὶ τρισί, Luke 12:52; ἀνὰ and κατὰ δύο, two by two [Winers Grammar, 398 (372); 401 (374); Buttmann, 30 (26)], Luke 9:3 [WH omits; Tr brackets ἀνά]; Luke 10:1 [WH ἀνὰ δύο [δύο]; cf. Acta Philip. § 36, Tdf. edition, p. 92]; John 2:6 [apiece]; 1 Corinthians 14:27; δύο δύο, two and two, Mark 6:7 (so, after the Hebrew, in Genesis 6:19, 20; but the phrase is not altogether foreign even to the Greek poets, as Aesehyl. Pers. 981 μυρία μυρία for κατὰ μυριάδας, cf. Winer's Grammar, 249 (234), [cf. 39 (38)]); neuter εἰς δύο into two parts, Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38; with the genitive δύο τῶν μαθητῶν (αὐτοῦ), Mark 11:1; Mark 14:13; Luke 19:29; [Matthew 11:2 R G]; τῶν οἰκετῶν, Acts 10:7. δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν, Luke 24:13 [cf. Buttmann 158 (138); Winer's 203 (191)]. with a noun or pronoun: δύο δαιμονιζόμενοι, Matthew 8:28. δύο μάχαιραι, Luke 22:38; ἐπὶ στόματος δύο μαρτύρων, Matthew 18:16; 2 Corinthians 13:1; δυσὶ κυρίοις, Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13; εἶδε δύο ἀδελφούς, Matthew 4:18; preceded by the article, οἱ δύο, the two, the twain: Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:8; 1 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 5:31; τοὺς δύο, Ephesians 2:15; αἱ [Rec. only] δύο διαθῆκαι, Galatians 4:24; οὗτοι [Lachmann brackets οὗτ.] οἱ δύο υἱοί μου, Matthew 20:21; περὶ τῶν δύο ἀδελφῶν, Matthew 20:24; ἐν ταύταις ταῖς δυσὶν ἐντολαῖς, Matthew 22:40; τοὺς δύο ἰχθύας, Matthew 14:19; Mark 6:41; Luke 9:16; δύο δηνάρια, Luke 10:35.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
6:19; 6:20
Matthew
4:18; 6:24; 6:24; 8:28; 11:2; 14:19; 18:16; 18:20; 19:5; 19:6; 20:21; 20:24; 22:40; 22:40; 27:51
Mark
6:7; 6:41; 10:8; 10:8; 11:1; 14:13; 15:38; 16:12
Luke
9:3; 9:16; 10:1; 10:35; 12:52; 12:52; 16:13; 16:13; 19:29; 22:38; 24:13
John
2:6
Acts
10:7; 12:6; 21:33
1 Corinthians
6:16; 14:27; 14:29
2 Corinthians
13:1
Galatians
4:24
Ephesians
2:15; 5:31
Hebrews
10:28
Revelation
11:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1417 matches the Greek δύο (dyo),
which occurs 20 times in 18 verses in 'Jdg' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - “Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’ ” And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - And they captured two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and routed the whole army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44 - Then Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city; and the other two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and killed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 - After him arose Jair, a Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:4 - Now he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys; they also had thirty towns, which are called “Havoth Jair”[fn] to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: let me alone for two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains and bewail my virginity, my friends and I.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38 - So he said, “Go.” And he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And it was so at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he carried out his vow with her which he had vowed. She knew no man. And it became a custom in Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Then say, ‘Shibboleth’!” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they would take him and kill him at the fords of the Jordan. There fell at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down:

“What is sweeter than honey?
And what is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them:

“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
You would not have solved my riddle!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - Then Samson went and caught three hundred foxes; and he took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - So they spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will tie you securely and deliver you into their hand; but we will surely not kill you.” And they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - And Samson lay low till midnight; then he arose at midnight, took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two gateposts, pulled them up, bar and all, put them on his shoulders, and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - So it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may perform for us.” So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them. And they stationed him between the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - Then Samson called to the LORD, saying, “O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the other on his left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - Then the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day cut down to the ground twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites.
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