- δίψυχος
- δίψυχος , ον (s. prec. two entries; not in non-bibl. wr. or LXX; the title in Philo, Fgm. II 663 Mangey is not fr. Philo’s hand.—But Parmenides 6, 5 speaks of δίκρανοι=double-headed people, who stagger helplessly here and there in their thinking) pert. to being uncertain about the truth of someth., doubting, hesitating, lit. double-minded Js 4:8 (cp. Pind., N. 10, 89 οὐ γνώμᾳ διπλόαν θέτο βουλάν=‘he entertained no double purpose in his mind’); ἀνὴρ δ. a doubter 1:8; Hm 9:6; ὁ δ. m 10, 2, 2; οἱ δ. (w. διστάζοντες) 1 Cl 11:2; 23:3; 2 Cl 11:2.—Hv 3, 4, 3; 4, 2, 6; m 9:5; 11:1f, 4; Hs 8, 7, 1; 9, 21, 1ff. W. ἀπόκενος m 5, 2, 1. κενός m 11:13. ἀσύνετος m 12, 4, 2. ἄφρων, ταλαίπωρος Hs 1:3. βλάσφημος Hs 9, 18, 3. κατάλαλος Hs 8, 7, 2.—OSeitz, JBL 63, ’44, 131–40; 66, ’47, 211–19, NTS 4, ’57/58, 327–34 (Hermas and the Thanksgiving Scroll); WWolverton, ATR 38, ’56, 166–75 (Essene Psychology).—M-M. TW. Sv.
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