Twain, Two
Twain, Two
See NUMBERS AS SYMBOLS.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Twain, Two
is rendered “twain” in Mat 5:41; Mat 19:5-6; Mat 21:31; Mat 27:21, Mat 27:51; Mar 10:8 (twice); Mar 15:38; in 1Co 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,” Joh 2:6 (in some mss., Luk 9:3); in Luk 10:1, “two and two” (“by twos”); (b) kata duo, “by two,” 1Co 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.”