1 Samuel 18:21
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
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Twain
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Ephesians 2:15
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
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δύο
dýo · doo'-o
10 times translated as this KJV form135 total Strong's occurrences
"two"
Strong's KJV usage: :--both, twain, two.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:41Strong's last: Ephesians 2:15
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shᵉnayim · shen-ah'-yim
7 times translated as this KJV form753 total Strong's occurrences
two; also (as ordinal) twofold
Strong's KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, twelfth, twelve, twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 18:21Strong's last: Ezekiel 21:19
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H8147
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
H8147
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
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Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
H8147
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
H8147
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
H8147
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
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Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
G1417
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
G1417
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
G1417
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
G1417
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
G1417
The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.
G1417
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
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And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
G1417
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
G1417
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
G1417
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
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twain
TWAIN, adjective or noun Two.
When old winter splits the rocks in twain
[Nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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