ἀμφότεροι
both
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἀμφότεροι appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 99 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 21:27 ἀμφότεροι And Abraam took sheep and calves, and gave them to Abimelech, and both made a covenant.
- Exodus 12:22 ἀμφότεροι And you⌃ shall take a bunch of hyssop, and having dipped it into some of the blood that is by the door, you⌃ shall touch the lintel, and shall put it upon both door-posts, even of the blood which is by the door; but you⌃ shall not go out every one from the door of his house till the morning.
- Leviticus 3:10 ἀμφότεροι and both the kidneys and the fat that is upon them, and that which is on the thighs, and the caul which is on the liver with the kidneys,
- Numbers 7:13 ἀμφότεροι And he brought his gift, one silver charger of one hundred and thirty shekels was its weight, one silver bowl, of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.
- Deuteronomy 22:22 ἀμφότεροι And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, you⌃ shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you remove the wicked one out of Israel.
- Ruth 1:5 ἀμφότεροι And both Maalon and Chelaion died also; and the woman was left of her husband and her two sons.
- 1 Samuel 2:34 ἀμφότεροι And this which shall come upon your two sons Ophni and Phinees shall be a sign to you; in one day they shall both die.
- 2 Samuel 2:2 ἀμφότεροι And David went up there to Chebron, he and both his wives, Achinaam the Jezraelitess, and Abigaia the wife of Nabal the Carmelite,
- 1 Kings 3:18 ἀμφότεροι And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered: and we were together; and there was no one with us besides our two selves in the house.
- 2 Kings 2:6 ἀμφότεροι And Eliu said to him, Stay here, I pray you, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan. And Elisaie said, As the Lord lives and your soul lives, I will not leave you: and they both went on.
- Esther 5:3 ἀμφότεροι And the king said, What will you, Esther? and what is your request? ask even to the half of my kingdom, and it shall be yours.
- Job 9:33 ἀμφότεροι Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both.
- Proverbs 20:10 ἀμφότεροι A large and small weight, and various measures, are even both of them unclean before the Lord; and so is he that makes them.
- Jeremiah 19:3 ἀμφότεροι and you shall say to them, Hear you⌃ the word of the Lord, you⌃ kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus says the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.
- Zechariah 6:13 ἀμφότεροι And he shall receive power, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and there shall be a priest on his right hand, and a peaceful counsel shall be between them both.
About this word
About this word
ἀμφότεροι (amphóteroi), “both,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 99 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →