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( 5, 1501) occurs in Luke 14:31; John 6:19; Acts 1:15; 27:28; 1 Cor. 10:8;
of the “four and twenty” elders, in Rev. 4:4 (twice), 10; 5:8; 11:16; 19:4 (combined in
one numeral with , “four,” in some mss.).¶
TWICE
( & , 1364) occurs in Mark 14:30, 72; Luke 18:12; Jude 12; combined with
$, “ten thousand,” in Rev. 9:16; rendered “again” in Phil. 4:16 and 1 Thess. 2:18.
See AGAIN .¶
TWINKLING
(: ), 4493), akin to , “to hurl,” was used of any rapid movement, e.g.,
the throw of a javelin, the rush of wind or flame; in 1 Cor. 15:52 of the “twinkling” of an
eye.¶
For TWO see TWAIN
TWO-EDGED
( & , 1366), lit., “two-mouthed” ( , and , “a mouth”), was used
of rivers and branching roads; in the NT of swords, Heb. 4:12; Rev. 1:16; 2:12, RV, “two-
edged” (KJV, “with two edges”).¶ In the Sept., Judg. 3:16; Ps. 149:6; Prov. 5:4.¶
For TWOFOLD MORE see DOUBLE
TWO HUNDRED
( , 1250) occurs in Mark 6:37; John 6:7; 21:8; Acts 23:23 (twice);
27:37, “two hundred (threescore and sixteen)”; Rev. 11:3, “(a thousand) two hundred
(and threescore)”; so 12:6.¶
Note: In Acts 27:37, some ancient authorities read “about threescore and sixteen
souls” (RV, margin). The confusion was quite natural when the word was not
written in full but represented by one Greek letter. The larger number is by no means
improbable: Josephus sailed for Rome in A.D. 63 in a ship which had 600 on board (6 7 ,
ch. 3).
For TWO THOUSAND see THOUSAND, Note (1)
U
For UNAPPROACHABLE, 1 Tim. 6:16, RV , see APPROACH, B
UNAWARES
Notes: (1) In Heb. 13:2, , “to escape notice,” is used with the aorist
participle of @ , “to entertain,” signifying “entertained … unawares” (an idiomatic
usage common in classical Greek). (2) For , “unawares,” in Luke 21:34, KJV,
see SUDDENLY. (3) In Gal. 2:4, KJV , , “brought in secretly,” is rendered