duo (two) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “two”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

two 129
of two 3
to two 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Matthew 35
Luke 25
Mark 15
John 13
Acts 12
Revelation 9

13 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Matthew 4:18And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Matthew 4:21And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
Matthew 5:41And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Matthew 6:24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 8:28And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Matthew 9:27And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.

All 121 verses, by book

Matthew 35: 4:18 4:21 5:41 6:24 8:28 9:27 10:10 10:29 14:17 14:19 18:8 18:9 18:16 18:19 18:20 19:5 19:6 20:21 20:24 20:30 21:1 21:28 21:31 22:40 24:40 24:41 25:15 25:17 25:22 26:2 26:37 26:60 27:21 27:38 27:51
Mark 15: 6:7 6:9 6:38 6:41 9:43 9:45 9:47 10:8 11:1 12:42 14:1 14:13 15:27 15:38 16:12
Luke 25: 2:24 3:11 5:2 7:41 9:3 9:13 9:16 9:30 9:32 10:1 10:35 12:6 12:52 15:11 16:13 17:34 17:35 17:36 18:10 19:29 21:2 22:38 23:32 24:4 24:13
John 13: 1:35 1:37 1:40 2:6 4:40 4:43 6:9 8:17 11:6 19:18 20:4 20:12 21:2
Acts 12: 1:10 1:23 1:24 7:29 9:38 10:7 12:6 19:10 19:22 19:34 21:33 23:23
1 Corinthians 3: 6:16 14:27 14:29
2 Corinthians 1: 13:1
Galatians 2: 4:22 4:24
Ephesians 2: 2:15 5:31
Philippians 1: 1:23
1 Timothy 1: 5:19
Hebrews 2: 6:18 10:28
Revelation 9: 9:12 11:2 11:3 11:4 11:10 12:14 13:5 13:11 19:20

Greek dictionary

δύο duo · two

δύο, numeral, indecl. exc. in dative, δυσί, δυσίν (Attic δυοῖν), two: Mat.19:6, Mrk.10:8, Jhn.2:6, al.; with pl. noun, Mat.9:27 10:10, al.; οἱ, τῶν, τοὺς δ., Mat.19:5 20:24, Mrk.10:8, Eph.2:15, al.; δ. ἐξ, Luk.24:13; distrib., ἀνὰ, κατὰ δ., two and two, two apiece: Luk.10:1 (WH, ἀνὰ δ. [δύο]), Jhn.2:6, 1Co.14:27; δύο δύο (= ἀνὰ δ., as LXX, Gen.6:19 for שְׁנַיִם שְׁנַיִם, but not merely "Hebraism," cf. μυρία μυρία, Æsch., Pers., 981, and for usage in π. and MGr., see M, Pr., 21, 97), Mrk.6:7; εἰς δ. (two and two, Xen., Cyr., 7, 5, 17), into two parts, Mat.27:51, Mrk.15:38. (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “two” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TWO, adjective

[Latin duo.]

One and one. two similar horses used together, are called a span, or a pair.
two is used in composition; as in two-legged.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.