δύο
two
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
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1417 appears in the Book of Matthew — 35 distinct verses. 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.
Matthew
- Matthew 4:18 δύο adj num indecl Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
- Matthew 4:21 δύο adj num indecl Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.
- Matthew 5:41 δύο adj num indecl Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
- Matthew 6:24 δυσὶ adj dat pl masc "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
- Matthew 8:28 δύο adj num indecl When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass by that way.
- Matthew 9:27 δύο adj num indecl As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!"
- Matthew 10:10 δύο adj num indecl Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
- Matthew 10:29 δύο adj num indecl "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
- Matthew 14:17 δύο adj num indecl They told him, "We only have here five loaves and two fish."
- Matthew 14:19 δύο adj num indecl He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
- Matthew 18:8 δύο δύο adj num indecl adj num indecl If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
- Matthew 18:9 δύο adj num indecl If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
- Matthew 18:16 δύο δύο adj num indecl adj num indecl But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
- Matthew 18:19 δύο adj num indecl Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 18:20 δύο adj num indecl For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."
- Matthew 19:5 δύο adj num indecl and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'
- Matthew 19:6 δύο adj num indecl So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."
- Matthew 20:21 δύο adj num indecl He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
- Matthew 20:24 δύο adj num indecl When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.
- Matthew 20:30 δύο adj num indecl Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!"
- Matthew 21:1 δύο adj num indecl When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
- Matthew 21:28 δύο adj num indecl But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'
- Matthew 21:31 δύο adj num indecl Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.
- Matthew 22:40 δυσὶν adj dat pl fem The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
- Matthew 24:40 δύο adj num indecl Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left;
- Matthew 24:41 δύο adj num indecl two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.
- Matthew 25:15 δύο adj num indecl To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
- Matthew 25:17 δύο δύο adj num indecl adj num indecl In like manner he also who got the two gained another two.
- Matthew 25:22 δύο δύο δύο adj num indecl adj num indecl adj num indecl "He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.'
- Matthew 26:2 δύο adj num indecl "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
- Matthew 26:37 δύο adj num indecl He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
- Matthew 26:60 δύο adj num indecl and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,
- Matthew 27:21 δύο adj num indecl But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"
- Matthew 27:38 δύο adj num indecl Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
- Matthew 27:51 δύο adj num indecl Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
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.
At its core, δυο (dýo) means “two.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 4:18. It turns up in 121 verses across 13 books, a common footprint. The word gravitates to Matthew (29%), then Luke and Mark. It shares a root with δευτερος, δις and δωδεκα. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1417 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 →
- 121
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 121 distinct verses.
- 13 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
- #126
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 126 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 121 occurrences in the concordance →
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 121 distinct verses.
- Gospels 88 verses · 73%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 37 verses · 31%
- Johannine 22 verses · 18%
- Pauline corpus 10 verses · 8%
- Revelation 9 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 2%
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: Two 118×, Twain 8×, Both 2×
- American Standard Version: Two 125×
- Berean Standard Bible: Two 124×, Second 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Two 129×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1417 across 135 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1417 across 137 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1417 across 130 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1417 across 135 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
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.
- the two, the twain
Word origin
Origin: a primary numeral
A primary numeral; two : - both twain two.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1417 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δύο dýo | Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable) | Matthew 4:18 | 122 |
| δυσὶν dysìn | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 16:12 | 5 |
| δυσὶ dysì | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 6:24 | 2 |
| Δύο Dýo | Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable) | Luke 7:41 | 1 |
| δυσί dysí | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 21:33 | 1 |
| δυσίν dysín | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 12:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1417, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δυο appears 555 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 485 verses in 29 books.
- 555
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 485
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 29 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 29 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:16 δύο
- Exodus 2:13 δύο
- Leviticus 3:4 δύο
- Numbers 1:33 δύο
- Deuteronomy 3:8 δύο
- Joshua 2:1 δύο
- Judges 7:3 δύο
- Ruth 1:2 δύο
- 1 Samuel 1:2 δύο
- 2 Samuel 1:1 δύο
- 1 Kings 2:5 δύο
- 2 Kings 1:14 δύο
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1417) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 485. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:16 δύο God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 2:24 δύο Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Genesis 2:25 δύο They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- Genesis 3:7 δύο Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 4:19 δύο Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
- Genesis 5:18 δύο Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.
- Genesis 5:20 δύο All the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.
- Genesis 5:26 δύο Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 6:19 δύο Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
- Genesis 6:20 δύο Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
- Genesis 7:2 δύο You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
- Genesis 7:3 δύο Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 7:9 δύο went by pairs to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- Genesis 7:15 δύο They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
- Genesis 9:22 δύο Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- Genesis 9:23 δύο Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
- Genesis 10:25 δύο To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan.
- Genesis 11:20 δύο Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
- Genesis 19:1 δύο The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
- Genesis 19:8 δύο See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
- Genesis 19:15 δύο When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Genesis 19:16 δύο But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
- Genesis 19:30 δύο Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
- Genesis 19:36 δύο Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.
- Genesis 22:3 δύο Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
- Genesis 22:6 δύο Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
- Genesis 24:22 δύο It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
- Genesis 25:23 δύο Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
- Genesis 27:9 δύο Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
- Genesis 27:45 δύο until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
- Genesis 29:16 δύο Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
- Genesis 31:33 δύο Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
- Genesis 31:37 δύο Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
- Genesis 31:41 δύο These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
- Genesis 32:8 δύο and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
- Genesis 32:11 δύο Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
- Genesis 32:23 δύο He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
- Genesis 33:1 δύο Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
- Genesis 33:2 δύο He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- Genesis 34:25 δύο It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
- Genesis 40:2 δύο Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
- Genesis 41:1 δύο It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
- Genesis 41:50 δύο To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
- Genesis 42:37 δύο Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again."
- Genesis 44:27 δύο Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:
- Genesis 48:1 δύο It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Genesis 48:5 δύο Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
- Genesis 48:13 δύο Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.
- Exodus 2:13 δύο He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
- Exodus 4:9 δύο It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1417) 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.
