1351. dilogos
Strong's Concordance
dilogos: given to repetition, double-tongued
Original Word: δίλογος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: dilogos
Phonetic Spelling: (dil'-og-os)
Short Definition: double-tongued, deceitful
Definition: double-tongued, deceitful.
HELPS Word-studies

1351 dílogos (an adjective, derived from 1364 /dís, "twice" and 3004 /légō, "to speak to a conclusion") – properly, "double-saying," i.e. deceitful by saying one thing but meaning another – literally, "two-sayings" ("double-tongued," used only in 1 Tim 3:8).

1351 /dílogos ("double-speaking") describes someone leaving a deliberate misimpression – acting like a spiritual "weathervane" by reversing their position (taking different sides of an issue whenever it is convenient or expedient). This person is unstable (vacillating), "speaking out of both sides of their mouth."

[1351 /dílogos ("double-tongued") does "not occur in the LXX or in classical writers. It means saying one thing and meaning another, and making different representations to different people about the same thing" (WS, 1028).]

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1351: δίλογος

δίλογος, διλογον (δίς and λέγω);

1. saying the same thing twice, repeating: Pollux 2, 118, p. 212, Hemst. edition; whence διλόγειν and διλογία, Xenophon, de re equ. 8, 2.

2. double-tongued, double in speech, saying one thing with one person, another with another (with intent to deceive): 1 Timothy 3:8.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
double-tongued.

From dis and logos; equivocal, i.e. Telling a different story -- double-tongued.

see GREEK dis

see GREEK logos

Forms and Transliterations
διλογους διλόγους dilogous dilógous
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Strong's Greek 1351
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διλόγους — 1 Occ.

1 Timothy 3:8 Adj-AMP
GRK: σεμνούς μὴ διλόγους μὴ οἴνῳ
NAS: [must be] men of dignity, not double-tongued, or
KJV: not doubletongued, not
INT: dignified not double-tongued not to wine

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