G297: ἀμφότερος (amphóteros)

G297 ἀμφότερος (amphóteros)

Greek

Quick Definition

ἀμφότεροι, αι, α Adj both of two

Strong's Definition

comparative of amphi (around); (in plural) both

KJV Usage: both

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀμφότεροι (G0297)

adjc. | -αι, -α | ἀμφί (on both sides, all around)

59.25 · Quantity · All, Any, Each, Every [Totality]

both the totality of two In a number of languages ἀμφότεροι may be rendered as ‘the two.’

MAT 9:17 · MAT 13:30 · MAT 15:14 · LUK 1:6 · LUK 1:7 · LUK 5:7 · LUK 6:39 · LUK 7:42 · ACT 8:38 · EPH 2:14 · EPH 2:16 · EPH 2:18

59.26 · Quantity · All, Any, Each, Every [Totality]

all, everyone all of a few (three or more) It is clear that in ACT 19:16 ἀμφότεροι must refer to the seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva.

ACT 19:16 · ACT 23:8

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀμφότεροι, -ar, -a, (fr. Hom. down], both of two, both the one and the other: Mt. ix. 17, ete.; τὰ ἀμφότερα, Acts xxiii. 8; Eph. ii. 14. av

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀμφότεροι amphoteroi 14x

both. Only plural in the NT.

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀμφότεροι, -αι, -α

(replaces ἄμφω in κοινή, v. M, Pr., 57; used of more than two, Pr., 80; MM, VGT, s.v.),

both of two: Mt 9:17, al.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀμφότεροι. On P Lond 336% (Α.Ὁ. 167) (=II. p. 221) Kenyon observes, ‘‘ ἀμφότεροι = πάντες in late Byzantine Greek... and it is possible that colloquially the use existed earlier.” The text here has the names of five men—apdrepor ἱερεῖς θεοῦ κώμης Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου. In P Théad 264 (A,p. 296) Αὐρήλιοι [H]pwvivos καὶ ᾿Αθανάσιος κ[α]ὶ Φιλάδελφος καὶ Σερηνίων ἀμφότεροι ἐξηγ(ητεύσαντες) makes ἀμφ. apply to three persons, if with the Ed. (and πο. 277) we read ὁ καὶ ᾿Αθανάσιος : in no. 27 we find the first two characterized as having been exegetae, while Serenion is κοσμ(ητεύσας), two years later. Prof. Thumb refers to BZ xi. p. 111 for apd. = ‘alle zusammen.” In the London papyrus, despite Bury’s paper on this late usage (C/ xi. p. 393), it is hard to disagree with Kenyon’s suspicion that it was not only the last two of these five who were priests: cf. P Lond 353” (A.D. 221) (ΞΞ 11. p. 112) where again we find five representatives of the πενταφυλία of Socnopaei Nesus. This usage is further strengthened by P Gen I. 675 (A.D. 382), and 26. 69% (A.D. 386) where ἀμφότεροι is used of four men. A similar extension of the word to the seven sons of Sceva in Ac 1915 undoubtedly simplifies the narrative. See further Moulton CR xv. p. 440, and Proleg. p. 80, where other exx. are noted. Radermacher (Gramm. p. 64) is in favour of making ἀμφ. mean ‘‘all” in Acts.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀμφότερος (amphoteros) — both. ἀμφότερος (Locrian dialect ἀμφόταρος [Refs], α, ον, (ἄμφω) rare in singular, either, i.e. both of two (opposed to ἑκάτερος each one of two), ἀμφοτέρας κοινὸν αἴας common to either land, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ποίημα ἢ πάθος ἢ ἀμφότερον or partaking of both, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. [Refs 8th c.BC+] as adverb, followed by τε.. κα; ἀ. βασιλεύς τ᾽ ἀγαθὸς κρατερός τ᾽ αἰχμητής both together, prince as well as warrior, [Refs]; ἀ. γενεῇ τε καὶ οὕνεκα.. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; followed by τε.. δέ.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; by τε.. καί.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. dual in [Refs 8th c.BC+], less frequently in later writers, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but plural is much more frequently, and is found with a dual Noun, χεῖρε πετάσσας ἀμφοτέρας[Refs 8th c.BC+] —Phrases: κατ᾽ ἀμφότερα on both sides, [Refs 5th c.BC+]towards both sides, both ways, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀμφότερα, absolutely, on both sides, [Refs]; ἀπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων from or on both sides, Ξέρξεω ἀπ᾽ ἀ. ἀδελφεός[Refs 5th c.BC+]; μετ᾽ ἀμφοτέροισι one with another (assuming variant), [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἀμφοτέροις βλέπειν (i.e. ὄμμασι) [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἀμφοτέραις, Epic dialect -ῃσι (i.e. χερσί) [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοτέροις βεβακώς (i.e. ποσί) [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

II. later, of more than two, all together, [NT+2nd c.AD+]