δίστομος
double-mouthed
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G1366 appears in the Nominative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Revelation 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.
The Greek adjective διστομος centers on the idea of “double-mouthed.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Revelation (67%), then Hebrews. Its earliest occurrence is Hebrews 4:12. It clusters with δις, διακοσιοι and διδραχμον under a shared root. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1366 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 67%
- Hebrews 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Johannine 2 verses · 67%
- Revelation 2 verses · 67%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Twoedged 2×
- American Standard Version: Two-edged 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Double-edged 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Double edged 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1366 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1366 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1366 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1366 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- having a double mouth as a river
Word origin
Derived from δις (dís) (G1364) — twice.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1366 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δίστομον dístomon | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 4:12 | 2 |
| δίστομος dístomos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 1:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1366, 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
- διθαλασσος dithálassos G1337 between two seas
- διλογος dílogos G1351 double-tongued
- διπλους diploûs G1362 double
- δισταζω distázō G1365 to doubt
- 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.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διστομος appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 3 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 3:16 δίστομος
- Psalms 149:6 δίστομος
- Proverbs 5:4 δίστομος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1366) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 3:16 δίστομος Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.
- Psalms 149:6 δίστομος May the high praises of God be in their mouths, And a two-edged sword in their hand;
- Proverbs 5:4 δίστομος But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, And as sharp as a two-edged sword.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1366) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
