Dictionaries :: Twain, Two

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Twain, Two:

is rendered "twain" in Mat 5:41; 19:5, 6; 21:31; 27:21, 51; Mar 10:8 (twice); 15:38; in 1Cr 6:16; Eph 5:31, RV (AV, "two"); Eph 2:15; in Rev 19:20, RV (AV, "both").

Notes:

(1) In the following phrases the numeral is used distributively:

(a) ana duo, "two apiece," Jhn 2:6 (in some mss., Luk 9:3); in Luk 10:1, "two and two" ("by twos");

(b) kata duo, "by two," 1Cr 14:27;

(c) duo duo, "by two and two," lit., "two (and) two," Mar 6:7 (not a Hebraism; the form of expression is used in the papyri);

(d) eis duo, "into two," in twain," Mat 27:51; Mar 15:38 (see above).

(2) In Luk 17:34 duo stands for "two men;" in Luk 17:35 for "two women."