amphoteros · both

What it means

amphoteros (ἀμφότερος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “both”.

The two together.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The one and the other, when two things or people are in view.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Luke×5
• Acts×3
• Ephesians×3

• Matthew 9:17

  Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out, and the wineskins are destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

• Matthew 13:30

  Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the darnel first and tie it in bundles to burn it, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

• Matthew 15:14

  Leave them; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

• Luke 1:6

  And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

• Luke 1:7

  And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.

• Luke 5:7

  And they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; and they came and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.

• Luke 6:39

  And he also told them a parable: “A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?

• Luke 7:42

  When they did not have the means to pay back, he forgave them both. Which of them, then, will love him more?”

• Acts 8:38

  And he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he immersed him.

• Acts 19:16

  And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered both and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

• Acts 23:8

  For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but Pharisees acknowledge both.

• Ephesians 2:14

  For he himself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition, the hostility, in his flesh,

• Ephesians 2:16

  and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility by it.

• Ephesians 2:18

  for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.