δύο, genitive indeclinable δύο (as in Epic, and occasionally in Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, others for δυοιν, more common in Attic (see Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 289f)); dative δυσί, δυσίν (δυσί in Mat_6:24; Luk_16:13; Act_21:33 (Tr δυσίν), δυσίν in Mat_22:40; Mar_16:12; Luk_12:52 (R G δυσί; Act_12:6 (R G L δυσί); Heb_10:28; Rev_11:3 (R G δυσί); cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 98; WHs Appendix, p. 147) a form not found in the older and better writings, met with in Hippocrates, Aristotle, Theophrastus, frequent from Polybius on, for the Attic δυοιν); accusative δύο (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 210; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. i., p. 276f; Winers Grammar, § 9, 2 b.; Passow, i., p. 729); two: absolutely, οὐκ ἔτι εἰσί δύο, ἀλλά σάρξ μία, Mat_19:6; Mar_10:8; δύο ἤ τρεῖς, Mat_18:20; 1Co_14:29; τρεῖς ἐπί δυσί καί δύο ἐπί τρισί, Luk_12:52; ἀνά and κατά δύο, two by two (Winers Grammar, 398 (372); 401 (374); Buttmann, 30 (26)), Luk_9:3 (WH omits; Tr brackets ἀνά); (WH ἀνά δύο (δύο); cf. Acta Philip. § 36, Tdf. edition, p. 92); Joh_2:6 (apiece); 1Co_14:27; δύο δύο, two and two, Mar_6:7 (so, after the Hebrew, in Gen_6:19-20; but the phrase is not altogether foreign even to the Greek poets, as Aesehyl. Pers. 981 μύρια μύρια for κατά μυριάδας, cf. Winer's Grammar, 249 (234) (cf. 39 (38))); neuter εἰς δύο into two parts, Mat_27:51; Mar_15:38; with the genitive δύο τῶν μαθητῶν (αὐτοῦ), Mar_11:1; Mar_14:13; Luk_19:29; (Mat_11:2 R G); τῶν οἰκετῶν, Act_10:7. δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν, Luk_24:13 (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) 158 (138); Winer's 203 (191)). with a noun or pronoun: δύο δαιμονιζόμενοι, Mat_8:28. δύο μάχαιραι, Luk_22:38; ἐπί στόματος δύο μαρτύρων, Mat_18:16; 2Co_13:1; δυσί κυρίοις, Mat_6:24; Luk_16:13; εἶδε δύο ἀδελφούς, Mat_4:18; preceded by the article, οἱ δύο, the two, the twain: Mat_19:5; Mar_10:8; 1Co_6:16; Eph_5:31; τούς δύο, Eph_2:15; αἱ (Rec. only) δύο διαθῆκαι, Gal_4:24; οὗτοι (Lachmann brackets οὗτοι) οἱ δύο υἱοί μου, Mat_20:21; περί τῶν δύο ἀδελφῶν, Mat_20:24; ἐν ταύταις ταῖς δυσίν ἐντολαῖς, Mat_22:40; τούς δύο ἰχθύας, Mat_14:19; Mar_6:41; Luk_9:16; δύο δηνάρια, Luk_10:35.

δύο dyo 135x two, Mat_6:24 ; Mat_21:38 ; Mat_21:31 , et al. freq.; οἱ δύο , both, Joh_20:4 ; δύο ἠ τρεῖς , two or three, some, a few, Mat_18:20 ; from the Hebrew, δύο δύο , two and two, Mar_6:7 , i.q. ἀνὰ δύο , Luk_10:1 , and κατὰ δύο , 1Co_14:27 two.

δύο , numeral, indecl . exc . in dat ., δυσί , δυσίν ( Attic δυοῖν ), two: Mat_19:6 , Mar_10:8 , Joh_2:6 , al.; with pl . noun, Mat_9:27 ; Mat_10:10 , al. ; οἱ , τῶν , τοὺς δ ., Mat_19:5 ; Mat_20:24 , Mar_10:8 , Eph_2:15 , al. ; δ . ἐξ , Luk_24:13 ; distrib., ἀνὰ , κατὰ δ ., two and two, two apiece: Luk_10:1 ( WH , ἀνὰ δ . [δύο ]), Joh_2:6 ; 1Co_14:27 ; δύο δύο ( = ἀνὰ δ ., as LXX , Gen_6:19 for H8147 , but not merely "Hebraism," cf. μυρία μυρία , Ζsch ., Pers ., 981, and for usage in Papyri and MGr ., v. M , Pr., 21, 97), Mar_6:7 ; εἰς δ . (two and two, Xen ., Cyr., 7, 5, 17), into two parts, Mat_27:51 , Mar_15:38 .

δύο [page 172] The disappearance of the dual flexion of δύο is in line with the whole tendency of Hellenistic : see Proleg. p. 77 ff. The gen. and dat. δυοῖν appears occasionally in a document where the writer desires to make broad his Attic phylacteries : thus P Giss I. 99 .15 (B.C. 80) ἐ ]ν στή [λαι ]ν δυοῖν [ἔ ]μ̣προσθε̣ν ἱδρυμέ [ν ]αιν τοῦ [ν ]εώ , P Strass I. 52 .33 (A.D. 151) ἀρουρῶν δυο̣ῖν ἡμίσους τρίτου (or was this δυεῖν ?), P Oxy VIII. 1119 .20 (A.D. 254) δυοῖν θάτερον . The literary Hellenistic δυεῖν (late Attic), which arose phonetically out of δυοῖν (Brugmann-Thumb Gr. p. 78), appears in several papyri, as P Par 1 .293 (the Eudoxus astronomical treatise c. B.C. 165) δυεῖν μηνῶν χρόνος , P Ryl II. 109 .5 (A.D. 235) πατὴρ τῶ [ν ] δυεῖν the document has υἱέας later!, ib. 269 .5 (ii/A.D.) ἐ̣κ̣ δυεῖν οἰκ̣[ῶ ]ν̣ this document also betrays artificial dialect by the registering historic present τελευτᾷ ( Proleg. p. 120), ib. 357 (A.D. 201 11) ἀρουρῶν δυεῖν , P Oxy VIII. 1117 .16 ( c. A.D. 178) ἐκ δυεῖν ταλάντων here again there is some fine writing in the context, a petition to a Praefect, who would no doubt be impressed by it. Greek dialects pluralized the flexion in different ways see Brugmann-Thumb Gr. p. 249 f. In Hellenistic we have dat. δυσίν , passim in all our documents, and to a very limited extent gen. δυῶν : see Mayser, Gr. p. 314, who can only quote OGIS 56 .62 (B.C. 239 8 the Canopus decree) ἐκ σταχύων δυῶν (in copy A), and BGU I. 287 .25 (ii/A.D.) ἀρουρῶν δυῶν it is ancient Ionic (Herod. and Hippocrates) and Cretan Doric (Gortyn Inscr.). That in MGr δυῶν (ε ) occurs occasionally (Thumb Handb. p. 81) may show that the form ran underground to emerge in a few places, but it might be independent analogy. Δυσίν is Ionic (first in Hippocrates), as we might expect from that dialect s early sacrifice of the dual. With the indeclinable δύο for nom., acc. and gen., it forms the whole of the Κοινή flexion. (The pre-classical δύω , which lived on in δ (υ )ώδεκα , is cited by Mayser (p. 313) from P Leid T i. 34 (B.C. 164 0) and P Grenf II. 38 .12 (B.C. 81) but there are other cases of ω for ο in this last document by sheer miswriting.) Mayser makes Syll 177 .26 (Teos,B.C. 304) the oldest inscriptional warrant for δυσί , which appears in literature before Aristotle. In Attic inscrr. (Meisterhans, p. 157) δυεῖν supplants δυοῖν in Alexander s time, and lasts a century, δυσί beginning in iii/B.C. On δύο δύο see Proleg. p. 97 : add to illustrate ἀνὰ δύο δύο P Oxy VI. 886 .19 (magical iii/A.D.) ερε κατὰ δύο δύο , lift them up two by two (Edd.). It may be noted that οἱ δύο supplants ἄμφω , as in Mar_10:8 etc., P Giss I. 2 ii. 5. .14 (B.C. 173) μάρτυ̣ρες φίλιος Μακεδών , Δημοκρατίω̣ν Θέσσαλος , οἱ δύο τῶν Κινέου , and οἱ δύο τῆς ἐπιγονῆς the document has also οἱ τρεῖς MGr has κ᾽ οἱ δυό , both, οἱ δυό μας , both of us.

δύο ( du/o numeral )( du/w numeral ) ( duoi=n numeral ) ( duw=n numeral ) ( duoi=si numeral ) ( dusi/ numeral ) [Etym: can be indecl., like ἄμφω, by Hom. , τῶν δύο μοιράων, δύω κανόνεσσι Il. ; so in Hdt. and attic Prose; but declined in Trag. ] "two", Il. , etc.;—in Poets δύο or δύω may be joined with pl. Nouns, δύο δ᾽ ἄνδρες id=Il. :— εἰς δύο "two and two", Xen. ; σὺν δύο "two" together, Il. , Hdt.

δύο, numeral, indecl. exc. in dative, δυσί, δυσίν (Attic δυοῖν), two: Mat.19:6, Mrk.10:8, Jhn.2:6, al.; with pl. noun, Mat.9:27 10:10, al.; οἱ, τῶν, τοὺς δ., Mat.19:5 20:24, Mrk.10:8, Eph.2:15, al.; δ. ἐξ, Luk.24:13; distrib., ἀνὰ, κατὰ δ., two and two, two apiece: Luk.10:1 (WH, ἀνὰ δ. [δύο]), Jhn.2:6, 1Co.14:27; δύο δύο (= ἀνὰ δ., as LXX, Gen.6:19 for שְׁנַיִם שְׁנַיִם, but not merely "Hebraism," cf. μυρία μυρία, Æsch., Pers., 981, and for usage in π. and MGr., see M, Pr., 21, 97), Mrk.6:7; εἰς δ. (two and two, Xen., Cyr., 7, 5, 17), into two parts, Mat.27:51, Mrk.15:38. (AS)