STRONGS NUMBER G1324


Word Summary
Didymos: Didymus
Original Word: Δίδυμος
Transliteration: Didymos
Phonetic Spelling: (did'-oo-mos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Didymus
Meaning: Didymus
Strong's Concordance
Didymus.

Prolongation from dis; double, i.e. Twin; Didymus, a Christian -- Didymus.

see GREEK dis

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1324: δίδυμος

δίδυμος, 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.)