ἀμφότερος
amphoteros
both
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word ἀμφότερος, translated as "both," appears 15 times in the Bible. Its primary meaning remains consistent throughout these occurrences, indicating a straightforward conjunction of two entities or ideas. In its usage, ἀμφότερος is often employed to indicate a balance or a consideration of two sides of a situation. For example, it may specify that something applies or involves both of something, rather than one of them. Its brevity and clarity allow it to serve as a versatile tool for expressing nuanced ideas in the context of the biblical narrative. The significance of ἀμφότερος can be seen in its role as a building block for more complex concepts. By combining two ideas or actions using this word, the authors of the Bible are able to paint a more complete picture of the world around them, encouraging readers to consider multiple perspectives and deepen their understanding of the message being conveyed.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
15 total occurrences across the text
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”
Matthew 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
Matthew 15:14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Luke 5:7They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.
Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
Luke 1:7But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.
Luke 6:39He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
Luke 7:42When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”
Acts 8:38He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
Acts 19:16The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Acts 23:8For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
Ephesians 2:14For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,
Ephesians 2:16and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it.
Ephesians 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.