Twice
δίςStrong’s G1364dis
Appears in 7 verses of the New Testament
In short
Dis is the Greek word usually translated “twice” and “twice ten thousand”. It appears in 7 verses of the New Testament.
“These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;”
Meaning
Usually translated “twice” and “twice ten thousand”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- twice 6
- twice ten thousand 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Mark 2
- Luke 1
- Philippians 1
- 1 Thessalonians 1
- Jude 1
- Revelation 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 14:30And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
- Mark 14:72And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.
- Luke 18:12I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
- Philippians 4:16For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:18Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
- Revelation 9:16And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
Greek dictionary
δίς dis · twice
δίς adv., twice: Mrk.14:30, 72; δ. τ. σαββάτου, Luk.18:12; καὶ ἅπαξ κ. δ., Php.4:16, 1Th.2:18; δ. ἀποθανόντα, Ju 12 (see Mayor, ICC, in l); δ. μυριάδες, Rev.9:16.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “twice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TWICE, adverb
[from two.]
Two times.
- Doubly; as twice the sum.
- twice is used in composition; as in twice-told, twice-born, twice-planted, twice-conquered.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.