Lexical Summary
distomos: Double-edged, two-mouthed
Original Word: δίστομος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: distomos
Pronunciation: DEE-sto-mos
Phonetic Spelling: (dis'-tom-os)
KJV: with two edges, two-edged
NASB: two-edged
Word Origin: [from G1364 (δίς - twice) and G4750 (στόμα - mouth)]
1. double-edged
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
with two edges, two-edged.
From dis and stoma; double-edged -- with two edges, two-edged.
see GREEK dis
see GREEK stoma
HELPS Word-studies
1366 dístomos – properly, two-mouthed (having two edges), like a "two-edged" sword with both sides of the blade sharpened to an edge; (figuratively) what penetrates at every point of contact, coming in or going out.
[A two-edged sword is an ideal defensive-offensive weapon and was known as "a drinker of blood" (Souter).]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
dis and
stomaDefinitiondouble-mouthed, two-edged
NASB Translationtwo-edged (3).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1366: δίστομοςδίστομος,
δίστομον (
δίς and
στόμα),
having a double mouth, as a river,
Polybius 34, 10, 5; (
ὁδοί i. e. branching,
Sophocles O. C. 900). As
στόμα is used of the edge of a sword and of other weapons, so
δίστομος has the meaning
two-edged: used of a sword in
Hebrews 4:12;
Revelation 1:16;
Revelation 2:12, and according to Schott in
