Twin
תּוֹאָםStrong’s H8380taom (ta-om)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taom is the Hebrew word usually translated “twins” and “twins of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.”
Meaning
- Twin
How it's translated
- twins 4
- twins of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 2
- Song of Solomon 2
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 38:27And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
- Exodus 26:24And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
- Exodus 36:29And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.
- Song of Solomon 4:5Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 7:3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹאָם taom · twin
twin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “twin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TWIN, noun
- One of two young produced at a birth by an animal that ordinarily brings but one; used mostly in the plural, twins; applied to the young of beasts, as well as to human beings.
- A sign of the zodiac; Gemini.
- One very much resembling another.
All definitions and other forms of “twin”
TWIN, adjective
Noting one of two born at a birth; as a twin brother or sister.
- Very much resembling.
- In botany, swelling out into two protuberances, as an anther or germ.
TWIN, verb intransitive
To be born at the same birth.
- To bring two at once.
- To be paired; to be suited. [This verb is little used.]
TWIN, verb transitive
To separate into two parts.
TWIN'-BORN, adjective
[twin and born.]
Born at the same birth.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.