Two
תְּרֵיןStrong’s H8648teren (te-ren)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Teren is the Aramaic word usually translated “two”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.”
Meaning
- Twotwo (as cardinal number) · second (as ordinal number) · two (in combination with other numbers)
How it's translated
- two 3
- and two 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
- Daniel 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:31In contextAnd Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
- Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 6:17And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Aramaic dictionary
תְּרֵין teren · two
1) two 1a) two (as cardinal number) 1b) second (as ordinal number) 1c) two (in combination with other numbers)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.