Lexicon Didumos: Didymus. Original Word: Δίδυμος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Didumos Phonetic Spelling: (did'-oo-mos) Short Definition: the Twin, Didymus, Thomas Definition: the Twin; Didymus, the Greek name equivalent to Thomas. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin"twin," Didymus, Gr. surname of the apostle Thomas (cf. Thómas) NASB TranslationDidymus (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1324: δίδυμοςδίδυμος, διδυμη, διδυμον and Δίδυμος, Διδυμον, twofold, twain, (double, Homer, Odyssey 19, 227; as τριδυμος, triple; τετραδυμος, quadruple, ἑπταδυμος); hence, twin (namely, παῖς, as τριδυμοι παῖδες, υἱοί, German Drillinge, three born at a birth), Hebrew תְּאֹם, a surname of the apostle Thomas (cf. Luthardt on the first of the following passages; B. D. under the word, Thomas): John 11:16; John 20:24; John 21:2. ( Homer Iliad 23, 641.)
Strong's Didymus. Prolongation from dis; double, i.e. Twin; Didymus, a Christian -- Didymus. see GREEK dis |
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