Word Summary
Didymos: Didymus
Original Word: ΔίδυμοςTransliteration: 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: δίδυμοςδίδυμος,
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.)