διθάλασσος
between two seas
‘between two seas’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1337 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
διθαλασσος (dithálassos) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “between two seas.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Acts 27:41. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1337 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Two seas met 1×
- American Standard Version: Two seas met 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: not separately translated
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Between two seas 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1337 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1337 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Does not render G1337 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1337 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- resembling or forming two seas: thus of the Euxine Sea
- lying between two seas, i.e. washed on both sides by the sea
Word origin
Derived from δις (dís) (G1364) — twice.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1337, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- διακοσιοι diakósioi G1250 two hundred
- διδραχμον dídrachmon G1323 didrachma
- διετης dietḗs G1332 two-year-old
- διλογος dílogos G1351 double-tongued
- διπλους diploûs G1362 double
- δισταζω distázō G1365 to doubt
- διστομος dístomos G1366 double-mouthed
- δισχιλιοι dischílioi G1367 two thousand
- διχαζω dicházō G1369 to cut asunder
- διχοστασια dichostasía G1370 dissension
- διχοτομεω dichotoméō G1371 to scourge severely
- διψυχος dípsychos G1374 double-minded
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
