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Post by Jim Pate on Jul 25, 2016 9:12:47 GMT -5
dipsuchos: of two minds, wavering Original Word: δίψυχος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: dipsuchos Phonetic Spelling: (dip'-soo-khos) Short Definition: double-minded, wavering Definition: (lit: of two souls, of two selves), double-minded, wavering. HELPS Word-studies 1374 dípsyxos (an adjective, derived from 1364 /dís, "two" and 5590 /psyxḗ, "soul") – properly, "two souled"; (figuratively) "double-minded," i.e. a person "split in half," vacillating like a "spiritual schizophrenic." This term may have been coined in the NT (R. Lenski, P. Davids).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin from dis and psuché Definition of two minds, wavering NASB Translation double-minded (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1374: δίψυχος
δίψυχος, διψυχον (δίς and ψυχή), double-minded; a. wavering, uncertain, doubting: James 1:8 (οἱ δίψυχοι καί οἱ δισταζοντες περί τῆς τοῦ θοῦ δυνάμεως, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 11, 2 [ET]; ταλαίπωροι εἰσιν οἱ δίψυχοι, οἱ δισταζοντες τήν ψυχήν (others τῇ ψυχή), ibid. 23, 3 [ET]; μή γίνου δίψυχος ἐν προσευχή σου, εἰ ἔσται ἤ οὐ, Apostolic Constitutions 7, 11; μή γίνου δίψυχος ἐν προσευχή σου, μακάριος γάρ ὁ μή διστασας, Ignatius ad. Heron. 7; (cf. references in Muller's note on the Epistle of Barnabas, 19, 5 [ET])).
b. divided in interest namely, between God and the world: James 4:8. Not found in secular writings. (Philo, fragment 2:663).
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